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….
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – FEDERAL Islamic Senator Fatima Payman has accused the West of propaganda, saying Iran is an incredible and democratic place. An Australian academic who spent 804 days imprisoned in Iran has condemned the WA-based senator after she said that…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR civilisational decline is now fuelled by unrestrained hatred and the hypocrisy of disinterested elites. One doesn’t hear the Ernest Hemingway Law of Motion mentioned very often these days. About a quarter of Australians are now either on…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA needs a leader that can rattle the cage of complacency in which Australia is trapped. One who can shout “wake up! wake up Australia”. Wake up before you become the “white trash” of Asia, which was forecast…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great questions of international relations and of history is what “causes” war. Many tomes have been written about both individual wars and about war in general. One is by our own Geoffrey Blainey. The literature…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE RBA’s decision to cut interest rates by 0.25 per cent this week should have come as no surprise in the current political climate. With an election looming, the Albanese Labor Government is desperate to claw back some…
