by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE two homes. One is in the wonderful Northern Rivers region of NSW, close but not too close to Byron Bay and accessible to its magnificent hinterland. The other is in the majestic Blue Mountains, west of…
by FRED PAWLE – THEY might disagree about the dangers of coal, but federal ministers Penny Wong and Tanya Plibersek share an enthusiasm for idiotic social media posts. Environment Minister Tania Plibersek says Australia is saving the planet by banning coal. Meanwhile,…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE has never been a President-elect like this one. Donald J Trump is re-writing the rules of the weird two-month transition period between an election and the inauguration. Americans have never seen anything like this. Many are claiming,…
by PAUL COLLITS – VICTORIAN Labor’s polling is in the toilet. Its Uncle Festa Treasurer, Tim Pallas, has resigned, leaving the State $156b in the red with a tanking economy. Premier Jacinta Allan is a dead girl walking. Or should be. And…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE Albanese Government’s adoption of key recommendations from the Varghese Review, including the defunding of a prominent Australian think tank known for its critical stance towards Beijing, has sparked controversy. The Varghese Review is named after Peter…
by FRED PAWLE – THE tenth anniversary of the deadly “siege” in Sydney’s Martin Place valiantly avoids using the M-word. There was a touching ceremony in the centre of Sydney this week as some of the most senior politicians in the nation…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE was a time when the ABC was, indeed, ours. That was the era of James Dibble reading the seven o’clock news. It was the time of Bill Peach’s crack team of investigative, irreverent young journalists, like the…
by ROGER CROOK – THE last time I saw Labor luminary Dr Jim Cairns was in the 1980s on a very cold Saturday morning in a market at St Andrews, up in the hills outside Melbourne. He sat behind an old card…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FEW short years ago, Australia was known as The Lucky Country; now in the eyes of the developed world, we are rapidly becoming the dumb country. Much of that is down to the fact that our Federal…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – AUSTRALIA’S population has grown by more 500,000 in just 12 months, with the nation recording twice as many migrant arrivals as local births. A total of 666,800 new migrants entered Australia in the past year to June 30,…
