by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is an economic cataclysm afoot in Australia. There are signs the nation is a busted flush. Both on the surface and deep underground. You wouldn’t know it, if you rely for your news from the corporate media…
by NINA NGUYEN – THE teenager accused of stabbing an Orthodox Christian bishop during a live-streamed service will face new charges on top of an existing charge of committing a terrorist act. A court was told on June 14 that the 16-year-old…
by PAUL COLLITS – ANYONE with the remotest direct knowledge of the NDIS, or of anyone attempting to access it, will know that it is not fit for purpose. Of the two totally and permanently work-disabled people I know, one has just…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONLY about 32 per cent of Australian voters gave Labor their first preference at the 2022 federal election. There was no ringing endorsement, despite a decade of ignominious and corrupted Liberal rule. Certainly, there was no mandate. It’s…
by ROGER CROOK – ANTHONY Albanese’s agency tasked with delivering a $10b affordable housing fund for low-income families paid more than $24m to external consultants and $6m in annual executive salaries last year, despite not having yet delivered a single completed house. …
by MONICA O’SHEA – FEDERAL Health Minister Mark Butler is continuing to advocate for a global pandemic agreement, telling WHO “we can’t afford to fail”. Speaking on behalf of Australia at the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Mr Butler advocated for…
by ROGER CROOK – OVER the past 40 or 50 years successive Australian governments have abandoned defence planning and have been lured away from national security and self-sufficiency. Free trade agreements on trinkets, beads and bargains made by others, including the Middle…
by ROGER CROOK – IS ANTHONY Albanese the right person to be prime minister of Australia? He has changed in the past two years; he has regressed, reverted to the Albanese we knew so well over the decades. The chubby, angry man…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – LIFE really can be bitter sweet. It can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when least expected. But sometimes, when all appears dark, a light appears. This has happened to me more than once and I can only hope…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – AUSTRALIA is a trailblazer in online safety, after all, we were first in the world in 2015 to establish an eSafety Commission – right? Well, maybe, but so what? Having a Commission is one thing, being “eSafe” is…
