by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA’S current Prime Minister has suggested that Commonwealth parliaments should go four years between elections, instead of the current three. Three-year term limits for federal MPs are too short, he says, but admits changes to time spent in…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – RECENTLY, I recounted how, as a young journalist in the Swinging Sixties, I had been ordered to drive through a Category 4 cyclone to report for work by a boss I described as an addition to the Holy…
by DAVID FLINT – THE news that the Paris-based OECD has confirmed that Australia has suffered the biggest drop in living standards in two decades would be unknown to most Australians, including the voters in the recent Dunkley by-election. Nor would they…
by ROGER CROOK – THE basic tenets of democracy died in Australia in 2007 – and they are yet to be revived. We elect governments to govern; to take care of our needs today and plan for all our tomorrows. If they…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT ISN’T every day that a church sermon has you sitting up (metaphorically) taking notes. Sadly, many priests these days see opportunities for “innovation” not in the preparation of their homilies but rather in butchering the rest of…
by ERIC ABETZ – PARTICIPATION awards are those lame awards that ensure every participant walks away with something in their hand. Victoria’s Dunkley by-election result on Saturday delivered a similar result for the two major Parties. The hapless Greens, whilst participating, suffered…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THERE have been two startling revelations about the great COVID over-reach in the space of about a week, upholding claims previously dismissed as conspiracy theories and misinformation. First, a peer-reviewed scientific study linked pandemic vaccines to a range…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is split in so many different directions as to be almost meaningless. No Liberal-led government has ever played to its strengths in office – and very few have played to them in opposition. No one…
by DAVID FLINT – ONLY the naive can doubt, and hired guns pretend, that monopolists (including oligopolists) will, if allowed, engage in price gouging. There is no need for an inquiry to establish that. Like the scorpion in the fable about the…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN–LABOR’S Closing Loopholes Bill is the government’s latest blow to reality – and to business. But its “Right to Disconnect” clause will no doubt be welcomed by some workers and the legal profession. Gone is the emphasis on an open…
