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…
by SEAN BURKE – US POLITICAL commentator and broadcaster Tucker Carlson can be counted among the most loathed – and loved – people in the English-speaking world. His former mainstream media colleagues despise him, Washington & Canberra establishment types cheer for his…
by HENRY JOM – THE Australian Bureau of Statistics has backflipped on its decision to collect Australians’ ethnic data, citing “significant issues” and “complexities”. This comes amid criticisms that the decision will prevent Australians from knowing the change in demography as the…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – I’M NOT alone in my surprise that Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party continues to scrape together 30 to 32 per cent primary support in recent opinion polls. To borrow the latest trending legal term – which perfectly fits Labor’s…
by DAVID FLINT – MOST Australian politicians, with notable exceptions, treat as infallible the discredited theory of anthropogenic global boiling. Yet few, if any, significantly curb their own enormous CO2 footprints. A good number probably doubt the theory. During the past quarter…
by REX WIDERSTROM – THE woman working to regulate what Australians — and the entire world — can view on the internet was once an employee of the company she’s battling in the Federal Court: Twitter, now called X. US citizen Julie…
