by KEVIN ANDREWS – THE comment by Foreign Minister Penny Wong that a “secure and prosperous future” for Israelis and Palestinians could only come with a “two-State solution” is a crass domestic political statement. Not only does the announcement break the long-standing…
by PAUL COLLITS – A HEALTH crisis close to home (not so close to home, geographically) has found me deep in the tropics for a month or so. Three long days’ drive north. It is like a foreign country. I don’t know…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – I OFTEN wonder how many Australians, like me, have found communicating with our national health bureaucracy about as easy as winning the lottery? “Oh, it shouldn’t be too hard, their website contains a 24-hour contact number, right?” Might…
by ROGER CROOK – WHEN Prime Minister Albanese visited the NT last year, he never asked to be taken to the town camps to see the disfunction for himself; probably because he had to get back for the Australian Tennis Open. Out…
by DAVID FLINT – EVERYTHING the Albanese Government does now is affected by one consideration: the election must be held before it is exposed as Australia’s worst government in history. While a standard House and half-Senate election could be held as early…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – WHEN he was prime minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard regularly warned colleagues against hubris. I suspect that he was reminding himself as much as his fellow MPs. Hubris was a cardinal sin for the ancient Greeks. It…
IN A world of political irrelevancy, there are few people climbing higher, harder and faster than NSW Shadow Health Minister Matt Kean. The guy who grinned while dangling off the end of a tax-payer funded EV charging cable during his ministerial years,…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOUR of Australia’s most disturbing public figures – Mike Cannon-Brookes, Chris Bowen, Malcolm Turnbull and Wyatt Roy – are all in the news at the same time, and in the same story. They are dishonestly taking money from…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE would be hardly anyone, at least anyone with a heart, who has not been moved by what has befallen the King, and now Catherine, Princess of Wales. Both have shown great dignity and great courage. The worldwide…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE title of one of Cat Stevens’ early classics turns out to be an apt description for the hapless, short-term, finger-in-the-dyke Premier of the Sunshine State, Steven Miles. Where does the Australian Labor Party dredge up these creatures? …
