by DAVID FLINT – I AM often tempted to make predictions, usually about elections and referendums, especially those against the grain. So what predictions can be made about Australia’s economic future? Having escaped the disaster which would have followed had the elites…
by PAUL COLLITS – PROBABLY few Australians realise that their opportunity to make a submission to Australia’s COVID non-inquiry runs out this week. On December 15, 2023, to be precise. That time went quickly. Having carefully scripted the process, and steered everyone…
by DAVID FLINT – WE WILL decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come, declared John Howard in the 2001 election, one which the pundits had declared he was doomed to lose. He won in a landslide,…
by GABRIËL MOENS – QUEENSLAND University of Technology has recently removed the word “merit” from its hiring process. In a radio interview, the University’s Vice-Chancellor Margaret Sheil, communicated her concern that the university’s hiring strategy could be biased. Waging war against excellence…
by SEAN BURKE – TRADE Union leaders have warned Anthony Albanese to step up – while Liberal Leader Peter Dutton reveals his plans to remove the stumbling Prime Minister by 2025. On top of this, the latest Newspoll has unleashed a world…
by PAUL COLLITS – NEW Zealand has a new government, at last. Jacinda Ardern is merely a grisly memory now – as is her successor, Chris “the vaccines weren’t forced on anyone” Hipkins. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – IT’S that time of year when men are shaving off mustaches – and possibly beards – they’ve grown during Movember to support research into prostate cancer and other serious male disorders. Others, however, like the look and have…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Voice referendum was extremely wasteful, and not only in the mountain of taxpayers’ hard-earned money the Albanese Government flushed, pointlessly, down the drain. It was also wasteful in time lost and worry caused to the rank-and-file, attempting…
THE Albanese Government is on track to be a one term government. The odds are shortening – considerably. If this government is that bad – and it is – perhaps we might have a fresh candidate in the ongoing debate about who…
