FORMER Australian defence minister Kevin Andrews has made the case for a “diplomatic” boycott of Beijing’s Winter Olympics. A diplomatic boycott would see Australia refuse to send government representatives and embassy officials to the Beijing games – while athletes and coaches would…
THE Northern Territory often produces a vague sense of unease due to its climate, desert landscape, remoteness and isolation. You wouldn’t venture far off the main highways. The Territory is also a focal point for the culture wars in view of its…
WARRINGAH MP Zali Steggall has come under blistering criticism after rejecting calls for a “diplomatic” boycott of China’s Winter Olympics. A diplomatic boycott would see Australia refuse to send government representatives and embassy officials to the Beijing games – while athletes and…
A CHINESE spy ship has been circling Australia for three weeks collecting intelligence off the coast, raising security concerns as Australia’s defence minister warned the country is facing the most dramatic change in its strategic environment since WWII. Intelligence ship Yuhengxing entered…
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…
