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…
by DAVID FLINT – POLLING, it has been said, is funded not to measure, but to shape public opinion. Obvious in the 2020 US election, however, there is little evidence of this in Australia. But as demonstrated here, the polls can be…
by PAUL COLLITS – I USED to engage often with the climate change debate. I once even shared a stage with venerable climate warriors Ian Plimer, the late Bob Carter, and Alan Moran, then of the Institute of Public Affairs. I was…
A GRASSROOTS political movement has launched in Sydney’s affluent Eastern Suburbs targeting radicalised Liberal MPs, who have rendered the Party all but unelectable. Using a South Australian template to attract large numbers of new conservative members, the recently formed Eastern Suburbs Conservative…
by TONY ABBOTT at CPAC – WHEN you’re prevented by law from having large gatherings, for the best part of three years, these surely have been dispiriting times. Certainly, it’s been hard to practice freedom and enterprise, locked up in your house,…
by REBECCA ZHU – CONSERVATIVE Australians must join the culture wars if they’re to push back against radical race and gender theories taught in classrooms, warns the Institute of Public Affairs’ Bella d’Abrera. In an address to CPAC Australia this week, Dr…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT SEEMS that every time it rains in Lismore now, there emerge a clutch of do-good politicians and bureaucrats to shout “flood!” Even if the Bureau of Meteorology is simply saying “heavy showers” if you are googling the…
