NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is under pressure from hostile bureaucrats to maintain harsh COVID restrictions even after benchmarks have been met. The premier had indicated that repressive restrictions on all NSW residents would be lifted by December 15, 2021, or when vaccination…
by PAUL COLLITS – AT THE time of writing, around 70 per cent of Australians were fully vaccinated against COVID. Put another way, the proportion of Australians being relentlessly insulted, bullied, gaslit, demonised, isolated and threatened is approaching one third. By no…
by DAVID FLINT ~ HAVING the honour of addressing a citizenship ceremony a few years ago, I told the new citizens that the country whose citizenship they had just received was one of the world’s oldest continuing democracies. Given that we have…
AFTER the sad demise of the previous NSW premier, I thought, well, one eastern State’s unspellable spinster-premier is gone, one to go. The then State of Origin contest over who could be the more ghastly premier came to an end after ICAC’s…
THE now daily revelations at NSW ICAC are providing satisfying sport for those who wish to see Gladys’s downfall made permanent, or, perhaps, simply wish to see alleged petty corruption exposed. It must make painful viewing and reading for those who see…
A VICTORIAN State MP has said that the rights and freedoms of Australians have been incrementally chipped away during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the unprecedented newly proposed pandemic laws giving politicians “unfettered power” over people’s lives. The Liberal Party member for Forest…
LET me get this straight. Mayors in regional NSW are afraid of fully vaccinated Sydneysiders visiting their low-vaccinated regions. The double jabbed are the lucky folks who now get to travel (legally) again out of Sydney, as of November 1, 2021. The…
IN AN age of Everest-scale policy challenges and Lilliputian leaders, one can only think, what would Margaret do? The COVID era has thrown up third rate chancer-politicians whose careers are mostly rehearsals for their post-politics money-making and global-stage prancing. Thatcher was shunted…
WITH thanks to the late David Bowie and the polymath Brian Eno, we are reminded of what it means to be called to heroic virtue, the traditional measure of sainthood. I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though…
by Paul Collits – WHO actually needs euthanasia when you have COVID? This is a question that should be asked, as the NSW parliament is now moving very much closer to considering the latest in the wave of “voluntary assisted dying” bills…
