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…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS OWN goals go, Warren Mundine’s appearance on The Insiders rates as pretty impressive. With the Yes case well and truly on the run, following Marcia Langton’s massively revealing deplorables spray and Jacinta Price’s magnificence at the National…
by HENRY JOM – THE Presbyterian Church has banned congregations from conducting Aboriginal ceremonies during services saying it is not appropriate. The decision by the church was made at the denomination’s general assembly in Sydney last week, where it was decided the…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THERE’S a big push to force universities “to do more” about sexual assault on campus, with the “Teal” independents leading the charge. “All of us women who have attended tertiary facilities in Australia know someone who has been…
by SEAN BURKE – ANTHONY Albanese’s prime ministership has become prey to his hand-chosen inner circle – those he has kept close since his student days as a socialist activist. Many of his favoured advisers are ageing Marxists hell bent on appropriating…
by NICK SPENCER – MOSMAN Council has rejected an Aboriginal land claim over one of the wealthiest parts of Sydney. The Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, a representative Indigenous body working solely on lands rights issues, began its claim in 2009 over…
by PAUL COLLITS – ALAN Joyce, the proverbial rainbow leprechaun, must be just about everyone’s favourite corporate megastar. Or maybe not. The gloss may be wearing off. Rich as all get-out, preachy-woke, always in the news – even when half way out…
by ERIC ABETZ – LEADERSHIP elites too often live in their own bubble divorced from their members, customers and supporters – and reality in general. The current debate over whether Australians should insert a whole new chapter into their Constitution to establish…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHEN former BHP Billiton’s CEO Andrew Mackenzie addressed shareholders in 2016, he said achieving a 50 per cent female workforce within the decade was a “moral imperative”. This sanctimonious claim was all the more sickening given that his big…
