by BETTINA ARNDT – WHY do anonymous bureaucrats have the power to ruin the lives of people found not guilty in a criminal court? “Michael” was a confident, popular Aussie kid who spent his childhood in the surf. By 18, he was…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW Liberal Party is a basket case utterly beyond redemption and almost incapable of reform. Its upper echelons are swarming with talentless, self-regarding factional lemmings with absolutely no interest in reforming anything, least of all themselves. Looking…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE word “professor” and the name “Bob Carr” or “Mark Scott” should never be used in the same sentence. Those who have spent years working their way up the increasingly fraught, academic greasy pole nearly choke on their…
by MONICA O’SHEA – FEDERAL Health Minister Mark Butler is continuing to advocate for a global pandemic agreement, telling WHO “we can’t afford to fail”. Speaking on behalf of Australia at the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Mr Butler advocated for…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN men accused of sexual crimes of one sort or another have been much in the news of late. Everyone on earth, including, perhaps, in the south of France, has now heard of Brittany Higgins, the latest poster-girl…
by ROGER CROOK – OVER the past 40 or 50 years successive Australian governments have abandoned defence planning and have been lured away from national security and self-sufficiency. Free trade agreements on trinkets, beads and bargains made by others, including the Middle…
by ROGER CROOK – IS ANTHONY Albanese the right person to be prime minister of Australia? He has changed in the past two years; he has regressed, reverted to the Albanese we knew so well over the decades. The chubby, angry man…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Australian Republican Movement is in turmoil with its leaders, Craig Foster and Nova Peris both resigning. Outraged by Foster’s calls for Israel to be removed from international football competitions over the war initiated barbarously by Hamas terrorists,…
by BETTINA ARNDT – MESSAGE to our politicians: If you have ever deluded yourself that you could ever harness the angry women’s vote, take a good look at our Prime Minister’s debacle late last month. PM Anthony Albanese indulged in classic virtue…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – LIFE really can be bitter sweet. It can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when least expected. But sometimes, when all appears dark, a light appears. This has happened to me more than once and I can only hope…
