by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great questions of international relations and of history is what “causes” war. Many tomes have been written about both individual wars and about war in general. One is by our own Geoffrey Blainey. The literature…
by FRED PAWLE – HAS anybody seen Energy Minister Chris Bowen lately? The man who was central to Labor winning the 2022 election has suddenly gone uncharacteristically quiet. After single-handedly losing the election for Bill Shorten in 2019, Bowen was one of…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIANS will have to get used to a different Australia. The old one has gone. Free speech is gone – and the only consolation is that our grandchildren will know no difference. Two depressing stories have emerged suggesting…
by FRED PAWLE – IT TAKES political cunning to deal with State-funded medical staff boasting about killing patients. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns rise to the challenge. “You’ve got to jail people. Not just anybody who breaks the…
by ALEXANDRA MARSHALL – THE claim that “Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world” appears to be the dream that never was. That is not to say that multi-ethnicity doesn’t work. Australia has been an immensely successful multi-ethnic nation…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – ANTHONY Albanese claimed this week that Peter Dutton was catering to the “fringe Right” – as more Leftist Liberal MPs flee parliament. In a speech aimed at Liberal leadership, the Prime Minister said those with a vision…
by PAUL COLLITS – POLITICIANS are flushing taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the toilet without blinking an eye – all to get their friends and themselves filthy rich. In the US, they have recently spent $8m to study the effect of flavored cigarettes…
by FRED PAWLE – BY PASSING even more tyrannical hate-speech laws, our politicians have revealed how little they know about Australian culture, let alone the fragile freedom upon which it is based. In the middle of a housing and cost-of-living crisis, what…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE war on Cardinal George Pell continues beyond the grave. How could it not? The stakes for the Mean Girls and their allies are simply too great. The battle lines have clearly emerged. On one side, we have…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIAN farmers and miners are battling to survive the Albanese Government’s obsession with a net-zero emissions target. The value and strategic importance of agriculture and mining to Australia has been neglected by both sides of politics for too…
