by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIA Day celebrates the settlement of Australia and the benefits to all, however imperfect, that could only have come from the most benign and advanced colonial power at the time, and with the Americans, in recorded history. This…
GUILT-ridden Australians are being persuaded to vote with their hearts –not their heads – as voters side with Anthony Albanese’s proposed race-based constitutional changes. While senior Aboriginal Australians have warned of irreversibly enshrining a black Voice to Parliament, the PM’s feel-good political…
by PAUL COLLITS – I ONCE wrote a case study on activist journalists, and no prizes for guessing who the subject of the case study was. Louise Milligan is simply indefatigable. Like a dog with a bone. Or like one of those…
by DANIEL TENG – AN OFFICIAL “No” campaign has been launched by Indigenous leaders Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price against a proposed change to the Australian Constitution. “Recognise a Better Way” calls for broader recognition of Australian Aboriginal communities but does not…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH a YouGov poll showing 46 per cent will vote Yes and 30 per cent No in the Voice referendum, experience suggests defeat is likely. That will be a good thing. Of course, the elites won’t be happy….
by PAUL COLLITS – NO, I don’t mean the platforms that one might find at Central Station or Southern Cross (aka Spencer Street), or even Roma Street. Upon which millions of harried commuters and other travellers traverse daily. I mean companies that…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THE announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to overturn the decision by the Scott Morrison government to punish local councils for refusing to hold citizenship ceremonies on the January 26 has reignited the debate about the significance of…
by DANIEL TENG – AS MAJOR companies opt out of celebrating Australia’s national day, opposition leader Peter Dutton is calling on citizens to be proud of their heritage, not ashamed of it. January 26 marks a public holiday that commemorates the landing…
by ERIC ABETZ – CHANGING the law is not easy. Nor should it be. Serious consequences flow. But surely changing our Constitution should be more difficult as even more serious consequences might flow. In 2016 Australians faced a double dissolution election on…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT HAS been a big week for Nazis and their discontents. First, we had the sad, though not tragic, passing of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, the German Shepherd. In what was to presage the reactions to the…
