by PAUL COLLITS – THE main problem with reviewing a book about Scott Morrison is that you have to read a book about Scott Morrison. But read it, one must. Why should one read it? Well, I can think of three reasons. …
by DAVID FLINT – LIKELY to attract more fraud than ever, it’s too early to predict the results of the 2022 federal election. A hung parliament is possible, one where the House could at least function more as intended and less as…
THE COVID State, apart from its destruction of lives, societies and economies, has caused a rethink of our explanations of political life. What we assumed to be the basis of liberal democratic polities, the social contract, if you will, has been rendered…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS to the credit of a group of parliamentarians that an independent cross-Party inquiry has been convened into the Australian response to the pandemic. Absent a Royal Commission, it is only through such an inquiry that a…
UKRANIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a phone call he deeply appreciates Australia’s military and humanitarian assistance after his country was invaded by Russian forces. Mr Zelenskiy tweeted on Saturday night that he had updated Mr Morrison…
DURING an interview years ago, a journalist curiously asked: “Do you believe in the Devil?” Having long thought about this, I replied: “With more than 100 million brutally murdered by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao Tse-tung and over a billion turned into…
THE Australian Federal Police has admitted deploying weaponry to inflict permanent physical injury against peaceful protesters in Canberra last week. The use of these weapons, believed to be a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) – or sonic cannon – has raised “deep…
by DAVID FLINT – WHY should anyone be surprised that some in the far-Left faction of the parliamentary Liberal Parties, the LINOs, demonstrate their dislike of those who are even mildly conservative? Intolerance of even slightly different views is a badge of…
AFTER years of demonising coal workers, it has emerged Warringah MP Zali Steggall’s biggest political donor is a coal mining multi-millionaire. A six-figure lump sum donation from a trust headed by investor John Kinghorn was curiously misreported by the Steggall campaign as…
AS TENS of thousands of Australians from all walks of life gathered at the nation’s capital to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Prime Minister Scott Morrison pointed the finger at State governments that “unilaterally” imposed mandates via public health orders. Marching through Canberra…
