by FRED PAWLE – BILL Leak’s brilliant attempt to shed light on the plight of Aboriginal children only served to expose the viciousness of modern Australian elitists. Today is the tenth anniversary of Bill Leak’s famous “Righto what’s his name then?” cartoon. …
by DAVID FLINT – THE media is still obsessed with Barnaby Joyce’s stern and immediately obeyed command to his farm dog. Meanwhile, journalists ignored the fact that South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas’s intervention at the recent ALP national conference was a glaring…
by FRED PAWLE – THE invasion of Spain exposes the dismal failure of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. If you thought the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games was a prelude to World War II, wait until you see what 2026 portends. We shouldn’t…
by ROGER CROOK – IT’S generally accepted that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and many in his cabinet are liars. The “great lie” for which Albanese will always be remembered was his first. It was made by the “new Albo” – the slimmed…
by FRED PAWLE – ANTHONY Albanese has made a bold move to snatch the nation’s retirement savings for his own authoritarian purposes. As Australia’s superannuation scheme suggests, the people who own the money can’t be trusted to invest it themselves. The most…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIAN media has become an industry that has forgotten what it stands for. I was working at the Daily News, Perth’s afternoon newspaper, when the Berlin Wall fell early in the morning, Perth time, on November 10, 1989. …
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE’S an old saying. There are three people you never want to imagine having sex. Your parents. Your children. And Gladys Berejiklian. Now we have another contender. PM Albanese got up and finished fourth! You don’t want to…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WHO would have guessed that a quick read of an email from our local library would have caused me to almost spill my morning cup of cappuccino? I had to laugh at the irony – and sheer hypocrisy…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THE world were reminded of one thing this year, it is that America remains the world’s dominant imperial power, or, as is said, “superpower”. The point is that since colonial settlement, Australians have always belonged to what…
by KARA THOMAS & ANDREW McINTYRE – MEDICINE was never meant to follow ideology. It is meant to follow evidence, ethics and the promise of “first, do no harm”. Yet across Australia, many doctors and nurses now feel that promise is under…
