by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – JUST a day after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Welcome to Country ceremonies “should never be controversial,” they became the subject of political dissent in Parliament. On the second day of the 48th Parliament, One Nation leader…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE last of Australia’s great public servants died last week. John Stone passed away, aged 96. He was the mandarin’s mandarin in an age, now long gone, when public servants were not contract-restricted and were largely invisible to…
by FRED PAWLE – WELCOME to Country and “traditional ownership” of land are both affronts to the democratic systems and values that made Australia the country it is. Every day under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese I get the uneasy feeling that our…
by NEW LIBERAL ECONOMIST – IN 2024 alone, Australia has taken in more than 580,000 new residents leading to a situation where 31.5 per cent of Australians were born overseas. One has to ask why? We know this creates a more difficult…
by ROGER CROOK – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese recently spent six days in China with a plane load of zillionaires from the Australian iron ore industry. Apart from having his metaphorical tummy tickled by his mentor Xi Jinping, Secretary General of the…
by BETTINA ARNDT – HOW refreshing to discover an anti-feminist psychiatrist. Very few people in the “helping professions” have the courage to openly oppose the prevailing orthodoxy. Hannah Spier is well placed to do so because the Norwegian psychiatrist is currently taking…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE other day, when one of my grandchildren (optimistically) stated that what separates humans from animals is rational decision-making, I reached for the phone and pulled up one of those excellent videos on the brilliant problem-solving skills of…
by ROGER CROOK – AS A nation we have been in economic decline for some time. It started with Rudd, Gillard, Rudd; there were plans for respite and recovery from Abbott, then his “mates” kicked him out and the decline of Australia…
by FRED PAWLE – WHILE the West wallows in disenchantment, Asians embrace our technology and consumerism with conspicuous glee. When Australians started travelling overseas en masse in the 1980s, returning home was an essential and reassuring part of the experience. Australians are…
by STEVEN TRIPP – DO YOU remember the John Howard era? The era of sound economic management and stable leadership. Love him or hate him, John Howard was a man of conviction. In 1998, he took the GST to an election, despite…
