by PAUL COLLITS – EVERY so often an arresting statistic grabs your attention and shocks you to the core. It also succinctly summarises a whole new world order. An old boss of mine at the NSW Department of State & Regional Development…
by SCOTT JOHNSON – IN RECENT years, political pundits and critics have increasingly labelled opposing political Parties, such as Liberal vs Labor and Republican vs Democrat as being a sort of uniparty. Whereby they see political differences as negligible and with both…
by ROGER CROOK – THE definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and expecting a different result. Attributed to Einstein, but it can be traced back to the 19th Century — it is one of the great truths. The first action…
by FRED PAWLE – WHY would a politician bother trying to improve a nation when it’s easier to ruin it instead? If you are a politician who, for whatever reason, wants to destroy the nation you govern, follow these four simple but…
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…
