by PAUL COLLITS – RECENT events have highlighted a great contrast between two prominent Liberal public figures who, on the face of it, should have a lot in common. Both are frequently, though inaccurately, described as “ultra-conservative”. What would Dominic Perrottet say…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHEN it comes to teasing out the murky truth in sexual consent cases, the mobile phone is a key source of evidence offering a lifeline that often serves to exonerate accused men. That’s why phone evidence has become…
by SEAN BURKE – AUSTRALIAN mainstream media is concealing the revolutionary threats of Aboriginal Senator Lidia Thorpe, instead portraying her as a voice of reason. Coverage of the Senator’s latest divisive Australia Day speech was yet the media’s latest attempt to “normalise”…
by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIA Day celebrates the settlement of Australia and the benefits to all, however imperfect, that could only have come from the most benign and advanced colonial power at the time, and with the Americans, in recorded history. This…
by PAUL COLLITS – ASK a millennial for a definition of “statesman” and you probably won’t get very far. This could be for one or more of three reasons. One, there haven’t been any statesmen since millennials were children, so they don’t…
by ERIC LOUW – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has discovered that while playing the colonial guilt card might work well with Left-wing audiences, the use of such finger-wagging on the international stage is a diplomatic failure. Why Wong thought publicly shaming Britain…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE upon a time Davos was a village in the Swiss Alps, known for not much at all. Suddenly it was famous. It is interesting how under-the-radar Swiss towns suddenly become famous for hosting nefarious groups having confabs….
by PAUL COLLITS – MANY of today’s readers may not know who John Hyde is. Certainly, very few under forty would have heard of him. John Hyde is a retired Western Australian farmer, writer, think-tank commissar and former MP who, in the…
GUILT-ridden Australians are being persuaded to vote with their hearts –not their heads – as voters side with Anthony Albanese’s proposed race-based constitutional changes. While senior Aboriginal Australians have warned of irreversibly enshrining a black Voice to Parliament, the PM’s feel-good political…
PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has commenced phasing out symbols of Australia’s constitutional monarchy, even before taking his planned changes to a referendum. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth last year, it was widely expected her image on Australia’s $5 note would be…
