by ALFRED BUI – A PARLIAMENTARY committee has been told the latest Integrated System Plan – that incorporates renewables – that underpins Australia’s energy grid for the next 20 years is a “work of fiction”. At an inquiry hearing, former Australian Nuclear…
by PAUL COLLITS – HISTORY repeats, first as tragedy then as farce, as Anthony Albanese’s guiding mentor Karl Marx once stated. I couldn’t help but notice one of Freebie Albanese’s more recent indiscretions. With a political tin ear that is hard to…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE old Queensland tourism pitch needs to be updated to “Labor tyranny one day, squishy Liberal the next”. Queensland Labor was appalling on every level. And because there is no upper house north of the Tweed, governments can…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – FEDERAL government and Opposition senators are debating potential action to penalise Senator Lidia Thorpe over her outburst in front of King Charles III during this month’s royal visit. Thorpe became a senator as part of The Greens,…
by FRED PAWLE – LOVE isn’t Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s strong point. We know this because he weirdly keeps banging on about it like a blue-haired feminist who won’t stop talking about her abortions. News Corp tabloids published an “intimate” interview with…
by PAUL COLLITS – APPARENTLY, we celebrated United Nations Day this month. I only know this because it was brought up in the Prayers of the Faithful during Mass last week. We were asked to pray for the UN, especially this week,…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FORMER Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser once said life wasn’t meant to be easy, but his plagiarised quote left out part of the original message. Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw added the more optimistic: “but take courage,…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are at least two people in Australia today who have the power and, I think, the fundamental ability to cause change – all they have to do is use it. Should they rise to the challenge they…
by PAUL COLLITS – HAVING twice faced the serious possibility of losing my daughter this year, I can only imagine the anguish of those who have actually participated in the death their own child – only later to be remorseful. TV’s Father…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE NSW Parliament has further expanded creeping LGBTQ privileges at the risk of harming vulnerable children. The Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 was passed on Thursday, marking a further expansion of queer rights. Labor Attorney General…
