AS AUSTRALIA approaches adopting a net zero emissions target, Deputy PM and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has urged the prime minister to address critical concerns on how the move should be achieved without undermining the nation’s economy. All eyes have settled on…
by Paul Collits – WHO actually needs euthanasia when you have COVID? This is a question that should be asked, as the NSW parliament is now moving very much closer to considering the latest in the wave of “voluntary assisted dying” bills…
FORMER NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has told her corruption inquiry she had no idea her then boyfriend Darryl Maguire was corrupt when she asked for his resignation from parliament. In a direct question, counsel assisting ICAC, Scott Robertson, asked if Ms Berejiklian…
NET zero emissions are only the beginning. A similar sleight of hand is occurring with the Wuhan virus, where we’re assured that on attaining some constantly changing target, freedom will be restored. But whenever the dictators see power slipping away, they are…
THE COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow is great news for corrupt governments in the developing world as it looks set to transfer huge sums of money into their hands. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian-born economist, has long warned the west against…
AFTER ICAC’s attempt to destroy that model of integrity, Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cuneen, was scuttled by the High Court, the NSW government should have accepted the advice of this column and not allowed that monstrous carbuncle to live one minute more. As…
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has allegedly amassed wealth, mistresses and a whole lot of children at the taxpayers’ expense. These lurid claims have long been an intense focus of the world’s media outside Russia, whose related investigative endeavours are not confronted with…
DOMINIC Perrottet’s deal with the Left to secure his premiership increasingly appears to be dominating his government. He’s saying all the right things but it’s his actions that are being watched. Each incremental step to the Right now appears to be followed…
FORGIVE the absence of party poppers, streamers and balloons. NSW’s so-called “freedom day” is a croc and an insult. It is nothing short of Orwellian newspeak. It is a lie, repeatedly told and somehow believed, celebrated, gloated over. There are alternate names…
PERHAPS NSW should be renamed “The Premiers’ State”. We have had our fill of them since the largely achievement-free but cleverly-crafted-to-look-impressive, decade-long reign of Bob Carr. The list is almost endless – Morris Iemma, Nathan Rees, Kristina Keneally, Barry O’Farrell, Mike Baird,…
