by PAUL COLLITS – OF ALL people, it was Daniel Andrews who declared, with rare truth-telling cut-through, that the era of “COVID exceptionalism” was over. Andrews was saying what every goon-government in the world had already decided, albeit far more surreptitiously. The…
by MATYAS TEMESFOI – RATHER than address its collapsing birth rate, European leaders are instead completely obsessed with their ageing demographic of voters. Turkish President Recep Erdogan recently announced plans to scrap the retirement age altogether, while French President Emmanuel Macron is…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT WAS 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his two young girls. From then on, he wrote regularly updating me on his eight-year Family Court marathon, where…
by ERIC ABETZ – MANY of the observations made about Australia’s choice of new ambassador to Washington, former PM Kevin Rudd, are less than flattering. A former Labor premier and senate deputy leader, Kristina Keneally, once described him on Sky News as…
THE Albanese Government is feeding false “talking points” to Voice activists in an effort to trick voters to blindly support its constitutional amendment. Leftist legal academics have cued up behind the Prime Minister’s reassurances that the Voice changes would ultimately be benign. …
by PAUL COLLITS – THOSE who lament the world’s current state and who shake their heads at the key question of the age – how in God’s name did we get here? – should, perhaps, ponder two telling developments, and, more importantly…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE year 2022, now mercifully passed and past, was more than anything else a year in which we lost many that could be counted as “best in breed”. Just think of Shane Warne, Queen Elizabeth II and now,…
by DAVID FLINT – ONCE assumed inevitable, elite so-called “republicanism” suffered a landslide defeat at the hands of a nationwide grassroots movement in the 1999 referendum. Long comatose, their republic has just passed away, unmourned. It has taken elite “republicans” more than…
by PETER CASTLE – MOST people agree that energy policy in Australia has been a “failure” for the past 20 years. Dig a little deeper and you will find that what experts disagree on is which direction it failed in. In Australia,…
