by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – PETER Dutton has doubled down on proposed budget cuts across health, education and the ABC – arguing his focus is on rewarding excellence and eliminating waste. Speaking specifically about the ABC, Dutton said the broadcaster was not…
by PAUL COLLITS – TO SUGGEST that our politicians are “low information” is an undeserved compliment. They are unknowing idiots who think it is we who are stupid. So stupid as to fall for their weasel words, over and over again. What…
by FRED PAWLE – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong is clinging to a USAID model of sending billions of taxpayer dollars to opaque woke projects in poor countries. One of the intangible benefits of Donald Trump slashing tens of billions of dollars from…
by ROGER CROOK – In Killarney, Ireland, a lost American tourist pulled up alongside an old man who was fixing a fence on a narrow country lane and asked, “Can you tell me please, how to get to Kilicracken?” The old man…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – PETER Dutton has vowed to scrap major Labor policies – including climate change initiatives – as PM Anthony Albanese calls a May 3 federal election. In his official budget reply, the Opposition Leader said Coalition policies would…
by PAUL COLLITS – A FRIEND in the Deep North recently told me, “if you feel pain, catch a plane”. In other words, if you are sick in regional Australia don’t expect to get well in a regional public hospital. Doctors lack…
by NICK BURY – NO ENRON or crypto currency rort could ever hope to lay a glove on global warming’s fraudulent infamy. The cruelty it has occasioned to poor people – for no net environmental gain – is for the history books. …
by VIV FORBES – AUSTRALIA is threatened by dangerous trees. They have infested our cities, menace our power lines, invade our grasslands and fuel our worst bushfires. The meander by Cyclone Alfred through south east Queensland illustrated how bad this danger has…
by FRED PAWLE – THE orgy of nostalgia for the glory days of COVID – five years ago this month – confirms that most journalists and their “expert” friends still don’t understand life outside their own bubble. Whenever the mainstream media marks…
by ROGER CROOK – US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has decided that many nations who trade with his country, do not trade fairly; he uses his definition of fairness. This statement and the threats of 25 per cent tariffs on Australian steel and…
