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…
by FRED PAWLE – IT’S easy to appeal to everyday Australians. Just stick to your principles, don’t spout pretentious garbage – and stay away from paedophiles. When Queen Elizabeth II gave birth to her second son in 1960, the property developers of…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – PAULINE Hanson, who heads the conservative-leaning One Nation Party is now the most popular political leader in Australia, according to new polling. It’s the latest in a string of polls showing Hanson’s steady rise since the May federal…
by DAVID FLINT – DURING the 2024 Federal election campaign, to ensure there would be at least one common sense Party in the 48th Parliament, I suggested voters cast their first preference for One Nation and place the LNP ahead of Labor…
by DAVID FLINT – IT WAS not that there were no legal tools to deal with antisemitism. It was that, too often, Labor refused to use them. There is an old fable, attributed to Aesop, about a scorpion and a frog. Albanese…
by ROGER CROOK – THE indescribable horrors of the shooting and killings at Bondi in December last year has, understandably, caused us to take our eyes off the mess Australia is in. Few imagined that such a terrible disaster – the slaughter…
by ROGER CROOK – AFTER what seems a decade of Labor – when in fact it’s only a few years – it should come as no surprise that our nation continues to decline. How long will it be before the people of…
by REX WIDERSTROM – PM ANTHONY Albanese has said Rudd’s decision to leave a year early was “entirely” his own. Australia’s ambassador to the US, former Labor PM Kevin Rudd, will step down at the end of March to take up a…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Australian Labor Party is demonstrably and aggressively antisemitic from the branch roots all the way to the PM, Tony Burke and Penny Wong. They don’t want this to come out. And now, with Anthony Albanese’s choice of…
by FRED PAWLE – THERE will be many things the newly freed and exuberant people of Iran will want to ask when (and if) their mullah overlords flee. First and foremost, someone needs to switch on their internet, which is currently blacked…
