THE Australian Greens plan to phase out shark nets and drum lines at Australia’s beaches and invest $50m towards the research of non-lethal shark control measures. In a policy launch at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Thursday, Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson called shark…
by PAUL COLLITS – A LARGELY undistinguished, former politician who briefly led an extremely minor (territorial) jurisdiction in the outback of Australia a long time ago wants the city of Lismore moved. To higher ground. Where it will cost taxpayers less. You…
IAN Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with searingly honest analysis of the game for many decades. Perhaps his most perceptive insight was his claim that a cricket coach should…
THE principal of an Australian Christian school mired in controversy over an enrolment contract affirming the school’s stance on gender and sexuality has stood down, saying he is “heartbroken”. Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College has been the target of public criticism and two…
PRO-Hamas activists who boycotted performing at this month’s Sydney Festival have been labelled “useful idiots” for promoting the terrorist organisation’s propaganda agenda. Federal Arts Minister Paul Fletcher said the political significance of their misinformation “was to advance the cause of Hamas”, a…
TYPE-casting and then bagging those who choose not to get a COVID jab is an emerging sub-genre of journalism, or what passes for it. Those who provide commentary and who write columns are especially prone to give in to what is clearly…
ACCORDING to Bob Carr, they are simpletons. To Sir (!) Tony Blair, they are selfish idiots. To the Archbishop of Canterbury (and, no doubt, the Pope), they are immoral. To Justin Trudeau, they are misogynist racists. Emmanual Macron wants to “p#ss them…
SOCIAL justice advocates have transitioned into ruthless tyrants and oppressors ~ more interested in emotions than facts, according to a leading Australian academic. Dean of Law at Melbourne’s Swinburne University Mirko Bagaric has described woke culture as a threat to western society. …
WHEN he was minister for health, Tony Abbott drew up a plan to deal with future pandemics which attracted international praise. Sadly, the Abbott plan is gathering dust somewhere in Canberra. Where to next? The answer is to develop with widespread public…
FIRST, they came for the anti-vaxxers… The COVID maniacs seem to be especially triggered by comparisons between the current totalitarianism and that practiced in central Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. And the suggestion that the unvaccinated are discriminated against in similar…
