by DAVID FLINT – ACTING against corruption should obviously be just and efficient. This basic consideration should not be abandoned in parliament’s unseemly rush to ram through the National Anti-Corruption Commission bills before their long summer break. Taxpayers should not be left…
by PAUL COLLITS – JUST imagine if the Pope came to Lismore. That would be a story. Well, this week we were graced (pun intended) with a visit from the spiritual leader of the Anglican communion. He is not, technically, the head…
BEIJING has, since 2018, been operating covert police operations in Sydney in an attempt to keep a “repressive” check on Australians of Chinese descent. According to the ABC, China’s Public Security Bureau established an official “contact point” in Sydney in 2018. The…
ABORIGINAL leader Warren Mundine has warned Australians were being deceived with tricks and emotive language into supporting an Aboriginal Voice. In an article appearing in The Australian newspaper this week the author and businessman described the Voice as nothing more than a…
by IAN PLIMER – I DON’T have opinions. I have facts. They are repeatable and validated. Fact #1: No one has ever proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. For more than two decades I have been asking scientists…
by PAUL COLLITS – TO HAVE one former Liberal minister say something pathetically inept, self-serving and deceitful might be regarded as a misfortune. But to have two do so within twenty-four hours looks like carelessness. The subject, again, tediously, is Novak Djokovic’s absurd…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS often said by those going into public life that they wish to make a difference. This requires an attachment to principle stronger than the wish for advancement. It is not common. I recently interviewed a man…
by PAUL COLLITS – NOVAK Djokovic is in the news yet again. The tennis great was infamously excluded from the US Open by a barely coherent US President, on the grounds of being unvaccinated. One of the fittest, healthiest individuals on God’s…
by NINA NGUYEN – FRAMING Aboriginals as victims removes individual responsibility and denies them the opportunity to flourish, according to Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price. The Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory said last week this approach creates the expectation that the…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS week saw the extraordinary scene of an appointed CEO of Essendon AFL Club being traduced by a politician and pressured to resign within hours of his appointment – essentially because he’s … a Christian! The breathless reporting…
