by ROGER CROOK – LAST month in Britain the marchers were chanting that they wanted their country back. In Australia one heard much the same feeling not long ago, though in our own way and in our own accent. A society under…
by PAUL COLLITS – A GOOD friend, whose views are pretty close to my own, is used to being ignored in the workplace. He’s used to colleagues steering clear of political discussions – and certainly steering clear of engaging with him. One…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS surely reasonable to expect that, after the trial of Cardinal Pell and the arrest of Alan Jones, the authorities would have learned a lesson. As the US Supreme Court noted in Berger v. United States (1935),…
by PAUL COLLITS – OBSERVERS of political developments in both Britain and Australia will, right about now, see much overlap. One area of apparent difference is the more clearly articulated Christian focus of the British insurgency movement. But first, some context. We…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WHILE Labor’s Federal Budget has copped flak from investors and potential property buyers – including young people it’s supposed to help – it may have created a new defence loophole in legal cases. Anyone facing charges of perjury…
by PAUL COLLITS – TREASURER Jim Charmless shameless Budget makes anything Paul Keating ever did look like a stroll in the park. Business analyst Robert Gottliebsen calls his latest Budget the greatest attack on wealth this country has ever seen. In one…
by FRED PAWLE – CONSERVATIVES didn’t start the culture wars, but we will end them – with Western erudition and eloquence, and not with Leftist-style slogans and abuse. My writings have been relatively scant lately. I have an excuse. We need to…
by PAUL COLLITS – JOHN Lennon was the socialist Beatle, as we know. George Harrison? Not so much. Famously, George wrote a song called Taxman. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory: The sheer size of the policy corruption and the exposure of Australian…
by JERRY ZHU – INDIA has overtaken England as the most common country of birth for Australian migrants or residents. A slight dip in the number of British migrants – around one million – in Australia has allowed the Indian cohort to…
by FRED PAWLE – FARMERS across Australia are quickly learning they are powerless to stop governments seizing land to make way for renewable energy infrastructure. A former member of the royal family arrested for allegedly betraying State secrets to a sex cult….
