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…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ARTIFICIAL Intelligence is a major issue these days for all sorts of reasons. These range from union concerns over likely job losses to the big question mark hanging over its huge energy appetite. Don’t accept Artificial Inteligence “facts”…
by ROGER CROOK – WHEN in Australia’s recent history did we agree that those in whom we entrust our future could lie to us and get away with it? Labor doesn’t care what debts they saddle the people with. Socialist ideology is…
by FRED PAWLE – IN THIS new era of State-enforced brainwashing masquerading as “childcare” and “education”, not even the children of government ministers are exempt. There is a timeless moment when a parent locks eyes with a child for the first time,…
by DAVID FLINT – THE machinery of the State is quietly being used to execute the most structurally radical agenda in modern Australian history. The recent appearance by Labor’s Right-wing eminence Don Farrell in the The Weekend Australian was a master-class in…
