by PAUL COLLITS – THE news came through this week that former NSW ALP Treasurer Michael Egan had passed away, in his mid-seventies, after a long illness. Probably a blessed release, then, despite his youngish age. Just look at some of the…
by PAUL COLLITS – NOTHING quite gets the blood pressure up than a full-throated discussion on the Israel-Gaza question. In these post 7/10 times, the blood pressure has gone through the ceiling. Only this month, a Jewish passenger on a Jetstar flight…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS WE conclude the annual attacks on the once iconic national day, Politicom’s thoughts have turned to Australian of the Year. And to those who weren’t nominated, but maybe should have been. Whichever side of politics chooses these…
by ROGER CROOK – IN OCTOBER 2023 more than 60 per cent of Australians rejected changing the Constitution to give Aboriginal and Torrens Strait Islander people a special voice to Parliament. Film producer Rachael Perkins, a young Australian woman with Aboriginal, German…
by NICK SPENCER – THE Future Fund – Australia’s sovereign wealth fund – must remain in its current independently-managed form, as opposed to liquidated to fuel more government spending on net-zero, according to the Centre for Independent Studies. On January 30, the…
by BETTINA ARNDT – KATE Jenkins may have retired from her job as Sex Discrimination Commissioner, but she’s done a brilliant job in ensuring her future employment. Late last year she was boasting on Instagram about her masterstroke: “Having recommended the new…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE been increasingly convinced that COVID was, at its heart, an anti-Trump strategy – which worked. It is clear that the global elites and America’s Deep State teamed up in 2020 to defeat the greatest threat to…
by ERIC ABETZ – AS LABOR parliamentarians gathered in Canberra last week to brainstorm the cost of living crisis, most constituents were bemused as to why it has taken so long. As publicity stunts and PR operations go, having a special caucus…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton is 100 per cent correct to call on shoppers to boycott Woolworths. And Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again proved what a tin ear he has when it comes to appreciating the national…
by DAVID FLINT – MUCH more than elections, the most important event in Australia in many a year has been the very clear and strong decision of the Australian people in the Voice referendum. This demonstrates, yet again, that rank-and-file Australians are…
