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On : --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 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…
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…