by DAVID FLINT – NEWS reports about the Gaza war frequently indicate the number of civilians killed as a result of something Israeli forces are said to have done. That from the ABC this morning was typical. The details given were sourced,…
by PAUL COLLITS – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has shamelessly attached himself to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The PM is one of the world’s best at linking up with what he takes to be popular public causes with ample photo opportunities. Expose…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE is no doubt we are back in a federal election cycle – it’s all very depressing. The Prime Minister, however, is in his element, he has been in election mode since the day he won government. “Fighting…
by DAVID FLINT – IN TERMS of trade this century, Australia must be the world’s luckiest country. But like a lottery winner who has inadvertently destroyed his winning lottery ticket, Australians could be among the world’s unluckiest people. Much of the wealth…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN A country town parish in NSW’s Blue Mountains, one quietly observes the congregation. There is only one Sunday Mass, so a quick census is straightforward. Apart from the obvious eighty or ninety per cent who have white…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – IT APPEARS Airbus Albo needs to spend more time oversees to help get his head around the importance of nuclear-powered energy. While the Prime Minister’s at it, he should pack in all the nuclear nay-sayer Labor premiers, Queensland’s…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE old cliché about how you can tell a politician is lying – their lips are moving – has never been more clearly illustrated than the tsunami of misinformation, disinformation and outright lies surrounding nuclear energy. There should…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE departing Member for Hornsby has the nose of Pinocchio. His latest lie was to suggest that he was off to seek new opportunities “in the energy industry”. Little did we know that this had a more specific…
by SEAN BURKE – ANTHONY Albanese is a child whose mind remains captured in his days as a radical student activist, according to Liberal leader Peter Dutton. Mr Dutton said the Labor leader was “a child in a man’s body”, as well…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA’S character and national spirit – forged and honed, damaged and repaired through two world wars and a great depression – is now hard to find in this 21st Century multi-racial, multicultural nation. Life in Australia today is…
