THE republican movement is in disarray. It is split several ways: whether to promote an elected or appointed president with or without reserve powers, whether to campaign against the Queen, whether to campaign on a single fake issue and most importantly, those who are dismayed by all this and demand a more serious approach.
PANDERING universities that have shut down freedom of speech and academic inquiry face tough new legislation if they continue to reject the basics of Western educational standards.
Under pressure to appease the Chinese Communist Party and high-value corporate sponsors, a number of Australian universities have systematically suspended students, removed staff and deleted social media posts over comments that they’ve judged to be offensive.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has outmanoeuvred China’s trade threats by securing alternate markets for discretionary items – strengthening Australia’s hand dealing with Beijing’s “structural” trade needs. In a move described as “smart”, the Prime Minister has made Australia a harder target for Beijing according to defence and security expert Michael Shoebridge.
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has raised concerns about Australia’s deteriorating strategic situation saying the nation’s economy is not as strong as it should be nor its citizens as united as they need to be. In his third and final interview with the Institute of Public Affairs on Thursday, Mr Abbott spoke about his current unease and outlined what needed to be addressed as Australia faced uncertain times.
AUSTRALIANS are twice as concerned about the health of the nation’s economy as they are for their own well-being as the Coronavirus pandemic picks up a new head of steam.
With an uncontrolled second wave in Victoria and isolated outbreaks in NSW and Queensland, all Australians whether male or female, young or old have ranked the economic impact as their primary concern, by far.
ONE of the defining characteristics of the cultural-Left’s cancel culture and political correctness movement is the rejection of concepts such as reason and rationality on the basis that such values are Euro-centric, binary, patriarchal and guilty of marginalising and disadvantaging the “Other”.
THE National Cabinet is a dismal failure. Never before has Australia, even in wartime, been governed by a grand coalition of Parties and governments, underwritten by big business and with the mainstream media tranquilised.
Unlike the ancient Roman republic, this is not a dictatorship constitutionally empowered to confront an emergency. It is a coup.
AS AN exercise in sheer unadulterated hypocrisy the public relations campaign around the Star Casino Tower Development ranks number one with daylight below it.
The original plan for the Ritz-Carlton and apartments complex atop the Star Casino in Pyrmont was to build 66 stories of hotel rooms and apartments in one soaring tower disregarding all town planning height restrictions.
OUR founding fathers when debating the union of the separate colonies on the great southern continent into one country, had one major concern.
That concern dominated discussions and constitutional debates like no other. The concern was this: how to ensure that the newly formed central government did not overwhelm the autonomy of the States to govern citizens within their own borders.
SHADOW Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has again questioned Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s leadership as a major factor in Australia’s deteriorating China relationship.
In an ABC TV interview this week the Labor senator said Australia needed “better leadership, true leadership” in order to restore a productive relationship with China.
