by ROGER CROOK – ONE Nation’s enduring dominance in opinion polls shouldn’t have surprised anyone watching the mood of the Australian electorate – but it has. The Party’s response to PM Anthony Albanese’s call to donate $27 to fight One Nation has…
by DAVID FLINT – THE world has never been in such a state. While a benign, admittedly imperfect alliance for good has existed since before the settlement of Australia in 1788 – originally British-led and now American – it now faces a…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIA, once the home of bronzed adventurers, is quickly becoming as forlorn and pessimistic as Europe was on the eve of World War I. On the evening of August 3, 1914, after it had become clear that catastrophic…
by ROGER CROOK – TWO rallies took place in London this month. One was the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson led “Unite the UK” rally attended by an estimated 60,000 people. Thousands of Union Jack and St George flags were carried by the…
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…
