by PAUL COLLITS – A LARGELY undistinguished, former politician who briefly led an extremely minor (territorial) jurisdiction in the outback of Australia a long time ago wants the city of Lismore moved. To higher ground. Where it will cost taxpayers less. You…
by JURIS LAUCIS – IN THE days of America’s wild west, the robbery victim was paralysed into passivity by the simple phrase “stick ’em up”. Today, the same result is achieved by an equally simple phrase “I’ve put our nuclear forces on…
INTERNATIONAL broadcaster Piers Morgan has teamed up with Sky News Australia – and local MPs – to shoot down the rise of global woke “nonsense”. Mr Morgan, whose prime time broadcast will air across Australia, the US and Britain, has vowed to…
by PAUL COLLITS – “REMEMBER man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shall return”. Catholics and other Christians familiar with Ash Wednesday rituals (and Genesis) will be familiar with these words. They remind us of the fragility of earthly life…
by DAVID FLINT – EMPIRES can normally expect to survive for about ten generations, around 250 years, argued Glubb Pasha persuasively in The Fate of Empires. The imperial republic, as great French philosopher Raymond Aron described the United States, is the West’s great…
UKRANIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a phone call he deeply appreciates Australia’s military and humanitarian assistance after his country was invaded by Russian forces. Mr Zelenskiy tweeted on Saturday night that he had updated Mr Morrison…
SENIOR Liberals have warned of a political bloodletting if factions overturn members’ candidate selections for the upcoming federal election. Legal action and warnings of mass campaign boycotts are underway in response to attempts by powerbrokers to parachute in their factional allies. While…
DURING an interview years ago, a journalist curiously asked: “Do you believe in the Devil?” Having long thought about this, I replied: “With more than 100 million brutally murdered by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao Tse-tung and over a billion turned into…
RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “rude awakening” for political leaders who thought the global rules-based order could be maintained through treaties and not armed force, according to a defence expert from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “The big thing that…
by JURIS LAUCIS – WOMEN with plywood cut out rifles, preparing to resist 180,000 Russian troops and thousands of tanks, missiles and artillery amassed on the borders of Ukraine. The photo says it all. All the while the West assists the beleaguered…
