by PAUL COLLITS – TONY Abbott, as Health Minister in the Howard Government, was caught up in the whole pandemic preparedness movement, no doubt egged along by his then Departmental Secretary, and now Gates collaborator, Jane Halton. Halton was described by The…
by PAUL COLLITS – TECHNOCRACY and technocrats gave us “pandemic preparedness”. And pandemic preparedness gave us the COVID State. And all of its evil deeds. Will Jones at the Brownstone Institute notes that COVID has thrown up two core questions – where…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT WAS Barnaby Joyce who introduced and oversaw the 2014-15 legislation that later formed the basis of Australia’s worst-in-breed policy response to the alleged COVID pandemic which hit these shores in early 2020. He did so with Tony…
by DAVID FLINT – THE saying “The only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history” may be dismissed as a sweeping generalisation. But as the formidable general Sir John Glubb – Glubb Pashah – remarked, it is…
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…
