by GRAHAM YOUNG – AUSTRALIA is a trailblazer in online safety, after all, we were first in the world in 2015 to establish an eSafety Commission – right? Well, maybe, but so what? Having a Commission is one thing, being “eSafe” is…
by DAVID FLINT – THE fact that no highly respected economist is lauding the budget, and the public is clearly unimpressed, is bad enough for the Albanese Government. Worse, opposition leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech significantly increased the trend of him…
by PAUL COLLITS – GOVERNMENTS and corporates want to destroy the internet. They consider it the most dangerous tool in support of grass roots democracy ever invented. The estimable US author Jeffrey Tucker writes at The Brownstone Institute that the censorship machine…
by SEAN BURKE – AUSTRALIA has become so unhinged it needs to be invaded and its “weak, woke little wimps” rounded up and sent to inland reservations. This is the view of US Daily Wire online commentator Matt Walsh who has almost…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – GEO-PHYSICIST Peter Ridd says an additional $5m allocated to the Great Barrier Reef in this week’s budget would be better spent on “genuine problems”. The funding was handed down as part of Labor’s 2024 May 14 Federal Budget. …
by PAUL COLLITS – ABC reporter Louise Milligan – the radical feminists’ go-to journalist – has written a novel. Perhaps not coincidentally, the back-cover tributes come almost entirely from Leftie women – as well as Cardinal Pell-hating homosexual David Marr. Louise Milligan…
by DAVID FLINT – I WAS asked recently to introduce Tony Abbott at a function. Along with national leaders of the standing of John Howard and Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump, Tony would not have shamed the nation by slapping…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN 1979, I commenced a Masters degree – by thesis, when Masters degrees actually meant something – in the Political Science Department of the Australian National University’s School of General Studies. A once great institution. Here, I had…
by DIANA MILLS – IT IS a truth almost universally acknowledged that readers of Politicom may not have been avid watchers of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. But how enlightening it can be. These days, it seems, it’s too political to refer…
by ROGER CROOK – I HAVE just received a nice note from WA Premier Roger Cook to tell me he’s going to return some money I gave him in the first place; he hopes it will help pay our electricity bill. (His…
