by ROGER CROOK – PAULINE Hanson and her One Nation Party along with Nigel Farage with his Reform UK are the bane of socialist governments in Australia and Britain respectively. Not content with unsettling the Left and taking votes away from them,…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THE Melbourne Comedy Festival will this month feature three women performing sketches celebrating “small moments in life that make us laugh”. These supposedly funny skits include a send-up of a 2020 court case where one of Australia’s best-known…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIA’S leaders are using the war in Iran and ensuing oil crisis to pretend they know how to fix the country’s problems. In truth, they’re making thr nation much worse. Commentators who predict that the war in Iran…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ANTHONY Albanese, in one of his frequently mundane news conferences, recently reminded us that “we can’t turn back the clock” when it comes to multiculturalism and economic reform. Well maybe the PM in his DJ Albo guise had…
by FRED PAWLE – ANTHONY Albanese has made Australia the kind of place you can’t wait to leave. Rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, censorship, hordes of violent immigrants, unprecedented corruption, the world’s highest taxes, unaffordable housing, schools churning out brainwashed robots, harridan women…
by PAUL COLLITS – MY DEAR, late mother – before she succumbed to the inevitable senior’s mental deterioration, aka dementia – was a cryptic crossword aficionado. For whatever reason, I still remember one particular clue she once shared with me. It was…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – PM ANTHONY Albanese hasn’t laid out what Australia’s true energy situation is. Worse, he hasn’t laid out what the plan is – and he hasn’t provided the confidence the nation needs. These are the words of Opposition…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIANS who are alarmed by the fuel crisis don’t know half of it. Closed petrol stations are merely a symptom of the country’s bigger, more terminal problems. The word “paradigm” comes from Ancient Greek, meaning a detectable pattern…
by PAUL COLLITS – BEFORE the recent South Australian election, John Howard opined that the former Liberal Senator and former Australian Conservatives leader, Cory Bernardi, “wouldn’t trouble the scorers” in that election. Howard is well known to be a cricket tragic, hence…
by DAVID FLINT – EXILED Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi last week delivered a message that resonated: “You cannot reform a snake. Venom is in its DNA.” This is a truth which escaped all American presidents between Jimmy Carter down to Joe…
