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,…
by PAUL COLLITTS – THERE are a number of potential explanations for an allegedly conservative NSW Premier presiding over a government that isn’t remotely conservative. One is that Dominic Perrottet is ruled by the Leftist Moderate Faction and its unelected lobbyist-controllers, and…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THERE is no doubt baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are living in a very different world compared to what they experienced. Australian society, as with others in the West, has undergone a radical change that makes…
JOE Biden, buoyed by federal agencies and his dutiful sycophants in the mainstream media, have done everything they can to keep Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell out of the public consciousness. First, they lied and tried to convince people it was Russian…
by BETTINA ARNDT – A FEW months ago, a few dozen women gathered in a room in Sydney to participate in a Wikipedia “edit-a-thon,” aimed at writing profiles of women in STEM, heaping praise on these academics simply because they are female. …
by PAUL COLLITS – ’TIS the season to be … thinking about Australians of the Year. Every good awards system has an alternate of the vox populi kind. Think the People’s Choice. Or the Bald Archies. Well, perhaps we should have a…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHENEVER Matt Kean makes a proclamation these days, the NSW Premier simply looks deadpan as if nothing of much import or potential harm is being announced. Mr Kean’s latest announcement is the cutting of carbon emissions by 70…
