by FRED PAWLE – PENNY Wong has unveiled her plan to help India produce renewable energy and in return receive hordes of unskilled migrants. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t believe his luck. The Foreign Minister has probably never sat in the…
by MICHAEL de PERCY – AFTER three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, reduced productivity or the increased public spending ailing Albanese. It’s not even Tony Burke’s spurious use of citizenship ceremonies…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR civilisational decline is now fuelled by unrestrained hatred and the hypocrisy of disinterested elites. One doesn’t hear the Ernest Hemingway Law of Motion mentioned very often these days. About a quarter of Australians are now either on…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIANS will have to get used to a different Australia. The old one has gone. Free speech is gone – and the only consolation is that our grandchildren will know no difference. Two depressing stories have emerged suggesting…
by FRED PAWLE – IT TAKES political cunning to deal with State-funded medical staff boasting about killing patients. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns rise to the challenge. “You’ve got to jail people. Not just anybody who breaks the…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – ANTHONY Albanese claimed this week that Peter Dutton was catering to the “fringe Right” – as more Leftist Liberal MPs flee parliament. In a speech aimed at Liberal leadership, the Prime Minister said those with a vision…
by PAUL COLLITS – POLITICIANS are flushing taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the toilet without blinking an eye – all to get their friends and themselves filthy rich. In the US, they have recently spent $8m to study the effect of flavored cigarettes…
by REX WIDERSTROM – ALREADY struggling to pay a $9m costs order after losing a high-profile case against energy giant Santos, the Environmental Defenders Office may be about to lose its charitable status. The federal opposition, which has said it will end…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA is doomed to another period of tip-toe, pale conservatism in the event of a change of government. Paul Kelly of The Australian newspaper penned a long-winded exposition this week on the state of Australian politics as the…
by FRED PAWLE – PETER Dutton looks increasingly likely to win the forthcoming election, but he’s not doing it by inflaming fury about the incumbent government or wild optimism about the future. He doesn’t have the same brilliant mix of swagger, optimism…
