NSW BUDGET – IRATE former Federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has laid waste to Matt Kean’s first State budget, saying the L-plate Treasurer was “so far Left” he was incapable of even “spelling Liberal”. The former MP for Mackellar was scathing of Mr…
GREENS Leader Adam Bandt’s shallow symbolism has been described as both “racist” and “childish” by Aboriginal leaders. Mr Bandt’s insincere efforts to endear himself to so-called “Indigenous victims” by removing the national flag from his press conferences has backfired even among those…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THERE is a name to conjure with in 2022, that name is surely Volodymyr Zelensky. How different he proved to be from our expectations about politicians who find themselves in similar situations. By failing to invoke the…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW Premier, while on a roll with all sorts of fancy “reforms” of not the slightest interest to punters whose jobs and lives he damaged by COVID mandates, has embarked on some virtue signalling to keep inner-city elites…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE 2022 federal election turned out to be a real Seinfeld election, a show about nothing. The biggest policy-making issues facing Australia were simply parked to one side. Like the great COVID bungle (or crime, depending on where…
by BETTINA ARNDT – AMBER Heard has been caught on tape sneering at Johnny Depp, gloating that even if he were to tell the world, no one would believe that a man was a victim of domestic violence. In the end he…
by PAUL COLLITS – PAUL Keating’s last appearance on the public stage occurred with his mending of fences with his old partner in micro-economic reform, the late Bob Hawke. And his moving eulogy at Hawke’s memorial service in June 2019. What did…
by ALFRED BUI – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has said his government would not be able to find a quick solution for the energy crisis plaguing the country’s east coast. The PM held his first national cabinet meeting on June 17 to…
THE non-reaction of Australians to the recent and sudden rise of COVID cases, hospitalisations and deaths has been striking, even bizarre. Equally noteworthy has been the willingness of Australians to simply “move on” from the zero COVID policy madness that accompanied the…
PORK-barrelling leads not only to corrupt behaviour but it also inflicts systemic damage on the body politic. NSW’s recent ICAC public forum on this form of vote buying has been well reported, at least in some areas of the legacy media. This…
