by PAUL COLLITS – THE only people who enjoy real free speech in Australia are the retired and those who don’t depend on government for their income. If you are an employee, forget it. No free speech for you. The process is familiar….
by FRED PAWLE – WESTERNERS who oppose the widespread use of fossil fuels have been conspicuously quiet since Iran choked off a major source of the world’s oil. Their hypocrisy is more obvious than ever. By virtually closing the Straits of Hormuz,…
by DAVID FLINT – SINCE the issue arose, the Albanese Government has maintained a chillingly bureaucratic silence regarding the fate of the Iranian women’s football team. While these athletes faced the very real threat of execution for their silent protest against the…
by FRED PAWLE – DECADES of fighting bogus threats have made Australians psychologically unready for what might soon lie ahead. The ABC recently published a headline warning that the cost of energy in Australia “could” go up as a result of the…
by PAUL COLLITS – I SPENT several years writing over fifty thousand words defending the late George Pell against his accusers. My argument assumed that we shouldn’t automatically believe the actual accuser, Witness JJ. Go on, you all want me to say…
by ROGER CROOK – I DON’T have much to say about the change in leadership of the Liberal Party, except that where there is life, there is hope. I do wonder if there was – or even is – anyone in the…
by DAVID FLINT – AS A boy, my father occasionally took me to a place where free speech wasn’t just a constitutional abstraction, but a vigorous living exercise. This was Sydney’s Domain – another “Speakers’ Corner” in one of the world’s oldest…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIES, damned lies and statistics? So the cliché goes, suggesting that you can twist numbers in every which way to make an argument. It’s true that numbers can be tortured to within an inch of their lives. See…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Albanese Government’s misplaced priorities have left Australia adrift in a sea of diplomatic vanity. By obsessing over the unilateral recognition of a non-existent Palestinian State – achieving nothing but the temporary appeasement of Mr Albanese’s hard-Left faction…
by ROGER CROOK – THE past two weeks have made me wonder just what bench mark the average punter uses when the time comes to vote in a general election. How much do we know about the people on the ballot, or…
