by PAUL COLLITS – IT WAS mentioned in the later stages of Australia’s Voice campaign that this was our own “Brexit moment”. Along with the almighty defenestration of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party in New Zealand, it has been a night for the…
by GABRIËL MOENS – IT WOULD be an exaggeration to describe the Voice referendum as Australia’s nadir moment. But Australia has certainly avoided – at least for now – becoming a country divided by race. A successful Yes vote would not have…
by DAVID FLINT – PEOPLE do not often have the opportunity, on the national level, to indicate which of two distinctly different paths they want their governments to follow, especially when the Coalition these days can too often be Labor-lite. With compulsory…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE Voice debate! Like many Australians I’m over it, and I decided a long time before pre-poll voting, it’s a big No from me. I’m reminded of a question posed decades ago by American physicist and television personality,…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT IS hardly surprising Federal Transport Minister Catherine King is trying to avoid scrutiny over her decision to reject more flights for Qatar Airlines due to her concern about the Doha strip search. Here was ideology trumping proper…
by ALEXANDER VOLTZ – THE claim circulating at the moment is that a cumulative $40b a year is spent, notionally, on Aboriginal Australians. It now seems that those Aborigines – be they of fair or dark skin – who live conveniently within…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT HAD to happen. Once the Aboriginal industry started clamoring for a Voice, it was only a matter of time before the other “victims” of the white, male, patriarchal, colonialist, heteronormative, Islamophobic world order would come running. In…
by MONICA O’SHEA – SINGING legend Kamahl has changed his mind again on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and will now be voting No. The 88-year-old broke the news to shocked The Project hosts Hamish Macdonald and Rachel Corbett on a live…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of Australia’s least competent former federal treasurers, Wayne Swan, has described Senator Jacinta Price’s ground-breaking National Press Club address last week as “bizarre”. What Price said, echoing her mother Bess Price’s recent argument in Quadrant and Nigel…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – LIKE the millions of other Australians who can trace their ancestry back to the time before federation in 1901, I’m a proud Australian. The first Donnelly arrived in the colony of NSW in 1841 travelling from King’s County…
