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…
by DAVID FLINT – THE fact that no highly respected economist is lauding the budget, and the public is clearly unimpressed, is bad enough for the Albanese Government. Worse, opposition leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech significantly increased the trend of him…
by PAUL COLLITS – GOVERNMENTS and corporates want to destroy the internet. They consider it the most dangerous tool in support of grass roots democracy ever invented. The estimable US author Jeffrey Tucker writes at The Brownstone Institute that the censorship machine…
by DAVID FLINT – I WAS asked recently to introduce Tony Abbott at a function. Along with national leaders of the standing of John Howard and Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump, Tony would not have shamed the nation by slapping…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN 1979, I commenced a Masters degree – by thesis, when Masters degrees actually meant something – in the Political Science Department of the Australian National University’s School of General Studies. A once great institution. Here, I had…
by ROGER CROOK – I HAVE just received a nice note from WA Premier Roger Cook to tell me he’s going to return some money I gave him in the first place; he hopes it will help pay our electricity bill. (His…
