by DAVID FLINT – WITH the launch of a war of aggression in the Ukraine by Russian dictator Putin, it is time now to make a serious reassessment of the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain. Who would have thought that this much-maligned…
THERE’S nothing like a war and a flood to ease pretend problems like exaggerated viral outbreaks off the front pages. Suddenly Australians have heard of Lismore and Kyiv. (With apologies to Jerry Seinfeld, it will always be Kiev to me). Perhaps the…
THE Australian Greens plan to phase out shark nets and drum lines at Australia’s beaches and invest $50m towards the research of non-lethal shark control measures. In a policy launch at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Thursday, Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson called shark…
THE former blue ribbon federal seat of Warringah has been designated a “Left only” zone, as the Liberal Party refuses to endorse the only legitimate candidate standing. Defence expert and Warringah local Lincoln Parker, who is factionally unaligned, has been refused endorsement…
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…
