by MONICA O’SHEA – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese’s new climate change secretary will reel in a $930,000 a year salary, according to a recently released remuneration files. Albanese revealed he would be recommending to Governor-General Sam Mostyn that Mike Kaiser become the…
by FRED PAWLE – WE MIGHT be too busy to contemplate the meaning of this sunburnt country, but circumstances demand we do so anyway. Or perish. This might seem an inappropriate time to ask what’s the purpose of Australia – with inflation…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE the misfortune to live in a local government area with an atrocious city council. Despite huge rates, the uses of which no one in Lismore can readily identify, the place is down at heel, with uncleared…
by ALFRED BUI – AN ACADEMIC has urged a floundering Albanese Government to develop a clear vision for managing its relationship with the US under the Trump administration. This comes amid a lack of progress in several key areas of cooperation. Albanese…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is now two Parties masquerading as one. It can’t survive – and it doesn’t deserve to. A very clever and insightful Australian citizen podcaster, Damian Coory (The Other Side), recently demonstrated the perversity that is…
by ROGER CROOK – WHY Iran was allowed by America, the UK and other NATO countries to develop the technology and the ability to construct a nuclear warhead will be debated for many years. The mad men running Iran had promised to…
by FRED PAWLE – DONALD Trump’s message to the mullahs in Iran should be heeded by the millions of migrants who are struggling to assimilate in the West. It’s okay to go home now. While the world speculates about what the Middle…
by ROGER CROOK – A CIVIL war within a Western nation by 2030 is an 80 per cent certainty – with the UK being most likely, according to a leading military academic. Professor of Modern War at London’s Kings College, Prof David…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – THE Queensland Government has issued new directives limiting – and potentially axing – the use of Indigenous “Acknowledgement to Country” and artworks in official email signatures. The directive from the Liberal National Party to government staff was tabled…
by PAUL COLLITS – IF EVER an organisation was bereft of decency, it is the morally and electorally pathetic Victorian Liberal Party. To adapt a phrase much now in the news again, they are waging a veritable jihad on decency. The only…
