by NICK SPENCER – AUSTRALIAN doctors are pushing back against gender-neutral and diverse language, warning it could lead to severe errors in medical procedures. One hundred and twenty medical researchers, doctors, midwifery professors and senior clinicians signed a letter addressed to peak…
by PAUL COLLITS – CURRENT Australian governments have messed around with the foundational principles of democracy, big time. One version of the classic definition of democratic theory, and, in particular, representative democracy, reads: “Consent of the governed” refers to the idea that…
by PAUL COLLITS – QUELLE horreur! This could set Australian-Franco relations back decades. All that good work we did defending the French against the Prussians at Fromelles, the Somme, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux, Hamel, Amiens and Mont St Quentin in World War…
by SEAN BURKE – AUSTRALIAN organisations who have endlessly lectured fairness and equality have been revealed as being among the most entrenched anti-Israel hate groups. Black Peoples Union, Mums for Palestine and Teachers & School Staff for Palestine are among 30 Australian…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – ONE step forward and two steps back is the best summary of Australia’s results in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The step forward was that we actually moved forward one place in the world—from 11th…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE American election cycle is very nearly upon us again. Actually, the formalities, like the presidential primary “debates” – unedifying slanging matches – have well and truly started, but the real action commences in the new year in…
by NICOLE JAMES – IT’S not with a light heart or a trifling spirit that I commit these words to paper, but rather with an earnestness that echoes through the annals of time, much like the resonant clangour of a bell tolling…
by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the departure from high office of the Unspellable Premier north of the Tweed, we have lost our last COVID Gauleiter. They are now all gone. This will be widely noted by those of us for whom the…
by SEAN BURKE – GARRY Burke was one of Australia’s great journalists. Politicom was privileged to have had such a talented and passionate writer – indeed, he was an Oxford scholar. Garry was a deliberative writer, an acclaimed daily newspaper editor, a…
by DAVID FLINT – WHY are demonstrators out in the streets of the West’s great cities, including Australia’s, supporting the evil monsters who meticulously planned and executed the most barbaric, unbearably cruel and ruthless massacre of innocents the world has seen this…
