by ROGER CROOK – THE past two weeks have made me wonder just what bench mark the average punter uses when the time comes to vote in a general election. How much do we know about the people on the ballot, or…
by DAVID FLINT – DURING the past five years 40 Australians have been killed and approximately 12,000 injured in e-bike accidents. A recent report from Sky News Australia has laid bare the mounting human cost of our unregulated streets. We are witnessing…
by FRED PAWLE – IT’S easy to appeal to everyday Australians. Just stick to your principles, don’t spout pretentious garbage – and stay away from paedophiles. When Queen Elizabeth II gave birth to her second son in 1960, the property developers of…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – PAULINE Hanson, who heads the conservative-leaning One Nation Party is now the most popular political leader in Australia, according to new polling. It’s the latest in a string of polls showing Hanson’s steady rise since the May federal…
by PAUL COLLITS – PAULINE Hanson is currently hoovering up dissident conservatives – and South Australia is her next electoral target. Former SA Senator Cory Bernardi is back – this time with One Nation. Barnaby Joyce is her most recent big capture. …
by DAVID FLINT – DURING the 2024 Federal election campaign, to ensure there would be at least one common sense Party in the 48th Parliament, I suggested voters cast their first preference for One Nation and place the LNP ahead of Labor…
by FRED PAWLE – ANY proposal to reduce the population of dangerous animals almost always results with environmentalists going hysterical. Keeping people safe from predatory animals was once considered an admirable, even noble thing. Scientists resist the simplicity of a cull, insisting…
by ROGER CROOK – THE holidays are nearly over. Now it’s back to the real world in Australia where, for most of the time, the best things about this country is the weather. Long warm days, sunshine and a swim are great…
by DAVID FLINT – IT WAS not that there were no legal tools to deal with antisemitism. It was that, too often, Labor refused to use them. There is an old fable, attributed to Aesop, about a scorpion and a frog. Albanese…
by FRED PAWLE – LABOR and Liberal had their own reasons for passing the most draconian legislation in Australian history. Neither was convincing because the law doesn’t address the actual problem. Australians don’t want to live in a society where elderly men…
