by ERIC ABETZ – WHEN your opponents start praising you, it’s worth taking stock and examining your position. The shadow attorney-general and spokesman for Indigenous affairs, Julian Leeser, may well reflect on the accolades and bouquets coming his way from his political…
by PAUL COLLITS – SOME years back, there was an unusual film. There was no dialogue. In a three-hour movie. It was called Into Great Silence, a portrayal of the monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps. A beautiful…
by DAVID FLINT – IN THE event that the Voice referendum is successful, one thing is certain. It will not, indeed cannot, close the gap. The fundamental requirement for referendum success is the government come with clean hands, as John Howard’s did…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHILE our country recovers from the lockdown years, across Australia there are thousands of families who look back to 2021 as the start of a very different nightmare – the year their sons were accused of sexual assault. …
by PAUL COLLITS – THE formal decision of Bobby Kennedy Jr last week to run for US President – as a Democrat, of course – has elicited a number of reactions. The Guardian’s one line description included the phrase “anti-vaccination”. Predictable, given…
by ERIC ABETZ – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has finally taken a strong stand in opposing the Voice proposal both on principle and in detail. Leadership requires the strength to say “No” even when those around you clamour to proceed without foreseeing…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN LIGHT of the events of the past week in Macquarie Street, one might ask if it’s acceptable for a heterosexual, religious or not, to believe that homosexual acts are morally or physically repugnant? And, if so believing,…
by IAN PLIMER – IN DEEP mines, geologists get a three-dimensional view of their world and are reminded that the Earth is dynamic with the creaking and groaning of hot rocks undergoing destressing and cooling and the hissing of gases such as…
by DAVID FLINT – ACCORDING to America’s most celebrated living constitutional and criminal lawyer, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, the criminal action against Donald Trump is the “worst abuse of prosecutorial discretion” he has seen in sixty long years of legal practice. Dershowitz,…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW election has come and gone and the NSW Liberals got their comeuppance. The expected change of government occurred. There was no “landslide”, but a (likely) minority government without a mandate. There was no real punishment of…
