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…
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…
