by VIV FORBES – A SPIRIT of madness exists in today’s Labor-led bureaucracy – the bureaucratic instinct is to kill every animal in any threatened herd to ensure all sick ones die. There’s a fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control…
by FRED PAWLE – IS THERE no problem in the world that European leaders – and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – can’t make worse? The European Commissioners – who two months ago were building a new renewable energy grid to save…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – EVERYONE is probably fed up to their eye teeth with cyclone talk after ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred stopped pirouetting and finally took a final bow. After exiting stage left – and leaving a trail of damage in its wake…
by MONICA O’SHEA – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has called for four-year fixed election terms in Australia, a move that would keep incumbents in power longer. His comments come as speculation grows over when the next federal election will be called, with…
by FRED PAWLE – PENNY Wong has unveiled her plan to help India produce renewable energy and in return receive hordes of unskilled migrants. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t believe his luck. The Foreign Minister has probably never sat in the…
by PAUL COLLITS – EVILDOERS are not always stereotypical monsters, like Jack the Ripper, but are often disguised as middle level bureaucrats – just following orders. Hannah Arendt had a simple argument in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem. Computer screen-savers in Queensland…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHAT a story! Our media was agog at the recent NSW Police announcement that they had exposed a $1.3b scheme for making fraudulent child sexual abuse claims. All the major media outlets excitedly reported on this huge “claim…
by VIV FORBES – WHY are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby – thus reducing capital costs and transmission…
by MICHAEL de PERCY – AFTER three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, reduced productivity or the increased public spending ailing Albanese. It’s not even Tony Burke’s spurious use of citizenship ceremonies…
by PAUL COLLITS – A LONG time ago, there was a cartoon, probably done by Alan Moir, of the dour looking 1980s NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth that showed his various faces. Barrie excited, Barrie sad, Barrie angry, Barrie determined, and so on….
