IN A play for disaffected centre-Right votes, the Liberal Democrat’s 2022 federal election manifesto is an attempt to reverse Australia’s slide into socialism. Pitching a swag of centre-Right policies long discarded by Australia’s major Parties, the manifesto promises small government, personal freedom…
by DAVID FLINT – IN HIS lament that he is but a “climate confusionist”, former university vice-chancellor Prof Greg Craven wants the “posturing on both sides of the debate” to stop so there can be a dialogue. As a constitutional expert who…
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is under pressure from hostile bureaucrats to maintain harsh COVID restrictions even after benchmarks have been met. The premier had indicated that repressive restrictions on all NSW residents would be lifted by December 15, 2021, or when vaccination…
by PAUL COLLITS – AT THE time of writing, around 70 per cent of Australians were fully vaccinated against COVID. Put another way, the proportion of Australians being relentlessly insulted, bullied, gaslit, demonised, isolated and threatened is approaching one third. By no…
THE International Olympic Committee last week introduced a new framework for transgender athletes, allowing males to compete in women’s sports without testosterone suppression or hormone therapy. In a six-page document, the IOC outlined 10 principles with a stated aim to ensure that…
AT LEAST some of the vitriol aimed at the vaccination refuseniks relates to the so-called free rider problem. The populist tone of much of the push for mass vaccinations to thwart COVID has the ring of Aussie jingoism. We are a nation…
by DAVID FLINT ~ HAVING the honour of addressing a citizenship ceremony a few years ago, I told the new citizens that the country whose citizenship they had just received was one of the world’s oldest continuing democracies. Given that we have…
IN HIS effort to rename Ben Boyd National Park, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been accused of resorting to “shoddy” history. The NSW Liberal’s Left faction co-leader has described 1800s entrepreneur Ben Boyd as a “slave trader” and vowed to work with…
WITH his third farewell in less than three years to his large audience, Alan Jones’ enemies are as premature in their rejoicing as they have been in the past. The voice of this tribune of the people will not be silenced. Alan…
SCOTT Morrison requires Labor to support his net-zero ambitions after his own Party members threatened to block his Greens-inspired policy direction. The prime minister appears to have gone all in with the Left’s climate project, ignoring protests from centre-Right Party colleagues. “That’s…
