by PAUL COLLITS – POLITICIANS are flushing taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the toilet without blinking an eye – all to get their friends and themselves filthy rich. In the US, they have recently spent $8m to study the effect of flavored cigarettes…
by REX WIDERSTROM – ALREADY struggling to pay a $9m costs order after losing a high-profile case against energy giant Santos, the Environmental Defenders Office may be about to lose its charitable status. The federal opposition, which has said it will end…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA is doomed to another period of tip-toe, pale conservatism in the event of a change of government. Paul Kelly of The Australian newspaper penned a long-winded exposition this week on the state of Australian politics as the…
by FRED PAWLE – PETER Dutton looks increasingly likely to win the forthcoming election, but he’s not doing it by inflaming fury about the incumbent government or wild optimism about the future. He doesn’t have the same brilliant mix of swagger, optimism…
by PAUL COLLITS – STEPHEN Jones – a politician of whom I had happily never heard, until this week – is retiring. He is taking his bat and going home. He is, appropriately enough, the Member for Whitlam. (Formerly it was called…
by REX WIDERSTROM – ASSISTANT Treasurer Stephen Jones is the latest addition to a list of Labor politicians retiring before the next Federal election. There are suggestions an election could be called for April, 2025, especially if the Reserve Bank cuts the…
by FRED PAWLE – THE people in power in Australia want us to believe clumsy patriots are the enemy while largely ignoring those who actually wish – and cause – us harm. “Once an Aussie flag man marched by a cenotaph…” As…
by THE SPECTATOR – IT IS quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut down colonial trees as an act of protest. All the while believing that we are in the middle…
by PAUL COLLITS – SCOTT Morrison has been cosying up to Donald Trump. He spent New Year’s Eve with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago. This is the same Scott Morrison who, in 2021, used $2b of Australian taxpayers’ money to bring a Moderna…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FAMOUS line from an old Australian film was my first thought when I heard Labor’s latest renewable energy pipe dream – a $2b subsidy for “green aluminium”. “Tell him he’s dreaming” was uttered by Darryl Kerrigan’s main…
