by GEORGE CHRISTENSEN – FREEDOM once defined Great Britain. Now, it’s being dismantled under the comforting guise of safety and progress. What was once unthinkable has become routine, as State power grows and speech is silenced in plain sight. The Albanese Government…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party of Australia is a rotting corpse being dragged all over the place by its factional “warlords”. The likes of lobbyist Michael Photios and federal MP Alex Hawke pretend that the Party still has life and…
by ROGER CROOK – ON HEARING that the Liberals had followed the Nationals in abandoning net-zero the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called them a “clown show”. He went on to reinforce his Party’s Canute-like claim, that renewable energy is the cheapest…
by FRED PAWLE – NATIVE title claims in Australia conspicuously discard connections to the real Indigenous culture that existed before white settlement. Most commentary about native title in Australia focuses on money and politics — and for good reason. To be granted…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS a great joy for a climate realist to live in a coal town. One of the few joys available to those of us with the climate smarts these days. The once mighty industrial city of Lithgow…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE is no such thing as “safe” socialism. If it’s safe, it’s not socialism. And if it’s socialism, it’s not safe. These are the haunting words of former UK Prime Minister the late Margaret Thatcher. Prime Minister Albanese…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIA has become neurotically obsessed with workplace and road safety, yet claims for injury compensation are going through the roof. Why? The answer is in demographic change. For all its absurdity, the widespread compulsory wearing of hi-vis vests…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS wide brown land down under is going down the toilet – think economy, culture, polity – and what does the once mediocre Liberal Party do? Talk about itself! And the legacy media, inevitably, joins in. It’s all…
by SCOTT JOHNSON – HISTORICALLY, political participation in Australia by the common folk was somewhat “verboten”. The laid-back “No worries, mate – she’ll be right” attitude of the Aussie larrikin at a barbie skulling beers is a caricature but was also normalised…
by ROGER CROOK – NOW that the long-awaited meeting between Anthony Albanese and President Donald Trump didn’t turn out to be a three-ring circus; let’s hope Labor starts to address the major challenges facing Australia. This might be wishful thinking, given the…
