by GRAHAM YOUNG – I WAS one of few political analysts who predicted Annastacia Palaszczuk would beat Campbell Newman in 2015. That fact alone may explain a lot about her long career. What was Palaszczuk’s defining achievement? Well, she managed to increase…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – AUSTRALIA’S dismal 2022 international education comparison proves, once again, how substandard our schooling system has become. Despite additional billions invested and countless government inquiries and reviews over the past 30 years, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE are calls for NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley to be sacked in the aftermath of last weekend’s ugly pro-Palestinian “celebrations” in downtown Sydney. These appalling events saw Australians cheering Hamas’s latest savage attacks on Israel – and…
by PAUL COLLITS – A QUEENSLAND man has been found to have (successfully) taken his wife’s Voluntary Assisted Dying pills after she had died without the chance to use them. At first, before I read the details, I had assumed this case…
by PAUL COLLITS – LABOR’S new Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has been personally responsible for the creation of more public debt than perhaps anyone else in Australia’s history. In her former ministerial portfolios she spent like a drunken sailor – making Gough…
by PAUL COLLITS – DANIEL Andrews has mercifully departed the Victorian premiership after serving as one of the most destructive leaders in Australian history. My mother and her generation, perhaps evoking a Christian ethos as well as traditional notions of manners, used…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE ACT Government’s forced seizure of Calvary Hospital reeks of a vicious Leftist ideology and its desire to end the lives of babies and the elderly alike. A presentation by the estimable Fr Tony Percy – until recently…
by PAUL COLLITS – INTERNAL political Party brawls are every bit as tedious within One Nation as when they occur in the major Parties. “If she is worried about under-performance, her best solution is to buy a mirror.” This was Mark Latham’s…
by DANIEL Y TENG – ONE Nation’s NSW State executive has been disbanded by federal leader Pauline Hanson. Ms Hanson announced the surprise move in a letter to the leadership team citing the NSW branch’s failure to pick up any extra seats…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE new NSW Premier, Chris Minns, hasn’t, so far, embraced a bromance with his southern counterpart in the weird way his Liberal predecessor, Dominic Perrottet, did. Chris Minns’ good buddy, the endlessly acerbic and coarse Sydney breakfast radio…
