by DAVID FLINT – SINCE Whitlam, Nixon, Clinton – and now Anthony Albanese, Western politicians have treated China’s communist dictatorship as if it were just another normal, law-abiding government. They have also treated communist leaders, including mass-murderer Mao, with respect and at…
by PAUL COLLITS – OF ALL people, it was Daniel Andrews who declared, with rare truth-telling cut-through, that the era of “COVID exceptionalism” was over. Andrews was saying what every goon-government in the world had already decided, albeit far more surreptitiously. The…
by ERIC ABETZ – MANY of the observations made about Australia’s choice of new ambassador to Washington, former PM Kevin Rudd, are less than flattering. A former Labor premier and senate deputy leader, Kristina Keneally, once described him on Sky News as…
by PAUL COLLITS – THOSE who lament the world’s current state and who shake their heads at the key question of the age – how in God’s name did we get here? – should, perhaps, ponder two telling developments, and, more importantly…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN THEIR captivating four-part series, We Need to Talk About Mr Global, Catherine Austin-Fitts and CJ Hopkins speak optimistically about the COVID era creating “new connections”. As old friendships, alliances and political marriages have broken up, new partnerships…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOLLOWING the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Albo has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure former Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The reason? For assuming additional portfolios during a “pandemic”, more or less without telling anyone. …
by PAUL COLLITS – WE’VE had neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism, neither of which has much advanced the interests of ordinary people. Neo-conservatives give us endless wars with (literally) no outcomes other than the advancement of what President Eisenhower termed the military industrial complex. …
by PAUL COLLITS – IMPERIALISM has been going on ever since man discovered transportation to cross the high seas. It reached its peak, coincidentally or not, in the age of the industrial revolution, the enlightenment and the invention of modern capitalism. We…
FEARS are growing that a new, race-based governing body – as proposed by Labor’s Indigenous Voice – could easily be infiltrated, resulting in unchecked communist control of Australia’s parliament. With “Voice MPs” set to be granted wide-ranging veto powers over legislation that…
by PAUL COLLITS – BACK in the day, there was a pact between elected politicians and those who put them in office. They did our bidding. They exercised power in our interests. They were, in other words “accountable”. They limited their actions…
