by DAVID FLINT – WE WILL decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come, declared John Howard in the 2001 election, one which the pundits had declared he was doomed to lose. He won in a landslide,…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – AUSTRALIA’S dismal 2022 international education comparison proves, once again, how substandard our schooling system has become. Despite additional billions invested and countless government inquiries and reviews over the past 30 years, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIBERTARIANS and conservatives have often disagreed – and they still do. The divide may be growing. The “fusionist” project of postwar conservatives – mainly in America – of figures like William F Buckley and Frank Meyer, has all…
by GABRIËL MOENS – QUEENSLAND University of Technology has recently removed the word “merit” from its hiring process. In a radio interview, the University’s Vice-Chancellor Margaret Sheil, communicated her concern that the university’s hiring strategy could be biased. Waging war against excellence…
by PAUL COLLITS – DURING Australia’s lockdown madness, innocent citizens were set-upon by politically-controlled police forces with tasers, pepper spray, rubber bullets, physical violence and wrongful arrest. Shouldn’t these same police now man-up to marauding hordes of terror supporters who dominate our…
by SEAN BURKE – TRADE Union leaders have warned Anthony Albanese to step up – while Liberal Leader Peter Dutton reveals his plans to remove the stumbling Prime Minister by 2025. On top of this, the latest Newspoll has unleashed a world…
by PAUL COLLITS – NEW Zealand has a new government, at last. Jacinda Ardern is merely a grisly memory now – as is her successor, Chris “the vaccines weren’t forced on anyone” Hipkins. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day…
by BETTINA ARNDT – EARLIER this month, the lawns of Parliament House featured 2500 empty shoes, one shoe for each of the men and boys who die in this country each year through suicide. This powerful memorial event was sponsored by the…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – IT’S that time of year when men are shaving off mustaches – and possibly beards – they’ve grown during Movember to support research into prostate cancer and other serious male disorders. Others, however, like the look and have…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
