By SCOTT HARGEAVES – I’M NO fan of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. But credit where credit’s due, she went to Taiwan even when both Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden told her not…
by GARRY BURKE – SCOTT Morrison may prove to be the most damaging leader the once-conservative Liberal Party has ever had. He has steam-rolled constitutional norms in both the nation and the NSW Liberal Party. And he has weakened the argument on…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE anti-mandate Convoy that descended on Canberra earlier this year could be the catalyst that delivers Australia from the brink of becoming an authoritarian State. It could also come to absolutely nothing – handing power-hungry politicians a green…
by DAVID FLINT – PRIME Minister Morrison’s curious accretion of portfolios, in itself no formal breach of the Constitution, raises a fundamental issue exposed by the pandemic. This is the whittling away of the checks and balances on the exercise of executive…
by PAUL COLLITS – REVIEW: John Stapleton, editor of the fine online journal A Sense of Place Magazine, has now published two books on Australia’s experience of COVID totalitarianism. The first, Unfolding Catastrophe, chronicled Australia’s descent into policy madness over two miserable…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Albanese government claims a mandate to impose certain policies, some of which will seriously damage Australia. Take just four of the most prominent and permit me to describe them, not as the spin-doctors do, but in accordance…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS arguable that the greatest problem faced by the Australian polity is executive government overreach. Elections no longer determine what policies will be enacted in government. Legacy Parties ignore what they promised and simply make it up…
by ALEXANDER VOLTZ – LABOR PM Anthony Albanese’s reckless appointment of Matt Thistlethwaite as Assistant Minister for Defence, Veterans’ Affairs and the Republic has infuriated many veterans and defence personnel. Mr Albanese’s move has been called an “egregious insult”, effectively insinuating Australia’s…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE quietly resurrected Alan Tudge, now Shadow Education Minister in the freshly minted Opposition, is hoping the Albanese Government will not reverse the Morrison regime’s decision to up the charge for liberal arts degrees at our universities. Whatever…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great advantages of awful politicians who become foreign ministers is that most of the time they are out of the country, far, far away from us, indulging in the bulldust that is the stuff of…
