by DAVID FLINT – WHY have Australia’s principal Parties forgotten their bases? The Party whose policies address this omission could win the election, as Menzies did in 1949. Both sides increasingly seek to satisfy the inner-city elites with policies that lack common…
FORMER Liberal National Party MP George Christensen is a much-hated figure among political elites – but voters love him. Just look at his recommended “to-do” list for the Government, which was spelled out in his final parliamentary speech late last month. Christensen…
by PAUL COLLITS – NO SOONER had George Christensen announced he’d joined One Nation – and was, indeed, standing for the Senate – than the hit squad launched a fresh diatribe against him. The former Liberal National Party Member for Dawson is…
by DAVID FLINT – WHY are so many Western leaders lacking not only in principle, courage and foresight but also common sense? The worst is Biden, about whom Robert Gates says he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and…
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…
