by PAUL COLLITS – JUST a few months ago, there passed one of the giants of American economics and public policy scholarship. Anthony Downs was 90 and his death was, surprisingly, largely unremarked, even inside the academy, and certainly outside his native…
THE COVID State, apart from its destruction of lives, societies and economies, has caused a rethink of our explanations of political life. What we assumed to be the basis of liberal democratic polities, the social contract, if you will, has been rendered…
IN AN act of political insanity, the Liberal Party has appointed a registered supporter of climate activist Zali Steggall to run for the seat of Warringah. Solicitor Katherine Deves was yesterday given the nod by a federal committee headed by PM Scott…
THE co-founder of environmental activist group Greenpeace has admitted his organisation peddled lies because scaring people was good for business. Dr Patrick Moore, who left his organisation in 1986, said he was disgusted that “fake invisible catastrophes” were being invented to increase…
SCOTT Morrison’s only chance of repairing his savaged reputation is by using his newly acquired preselection powers to install “real” Liberals into NSW seats. The Prime Minister has been widely condemned over his handling of NSW’s factional infighting and is accused of…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS to the credit of a group of parliamentarians that an independent cross-Party inquiry has been convened into the Australian response to the pandemic. Absent a Royal Commission, it is only through such an inquiry that a…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE recent, unnerving revelations by Politicom’s Sean Burke about unvaccinated Environment Protection Authority staff being forced out of their jobs were jolting to many in NSW. It begs the question, just how widespread are employment-related vaccine mandates in…
AN AUSTRALIAN Christian lobbyist has argued that it’s unfair for biological women with sporting ambitions to shoulder the identity struggles of trans athletes. Martyn Iles, the managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, said a man who “takes advantage and causes injustice…
by PAUL COLLITS – RECRIMINATIONS have begun for the Coalition, especially for the Liberal Party, following its drubbing in the recent South Australian election. The former Marshall Government, in office merely one term, was consigned to the dustbin of history in an…
NSW Liberal Party members are in revolt as the Prime Minister and NSW Premier move to revoke their constitutional right to preselect federal candidates. In a move described as a “death wish”, the Party’s Federal Executive has sidelined the NSW Executive and…
