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…
by FRED PAWLE – COMPULSORY superannuation has been infantilising Australians for 33 years. It’s time we grew up. If COVID revealed that most Australians were happy to outsource basic health decisions to the State, then compulsory superannuation continues to reveal the same…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHY are so many women now leading most of our public-facing institutions and why are they so bad at it? These two questions keep arising for anyone who reads the news. Just look around. The new Archbishop of…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WHO’D have thought tax could potentially be an issue for the Sex Discrimination Commissioner – or an example of women’s rights breaking an acceptable nexus between male and female? I know many politicians and bureaucrats struggle to define…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – ABORIGINAL patients presenting to Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital are given a “category 3” priority, meaning they must be treated within 30 minutes. Former nurse and now-shadow Victorian health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier has called hospital rules designed to prioritise…
