by GABRIËL MOENS – THE perennial discussion about the reading ability of Australia’s primary and high school children reached yet another milestone with the publication of a report by the Grattan Institute. The report, The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child…
by BETTINA ARNDT – HOW quickly can men respond to a female red flag? That’s a critical issue highlighted by our new affirmative consent laws, where not only is consent required throughout sexual activity, but women can pull the plug whenever they…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE news came through this week that former NSW ALP Treasurer Michael Egan had passed away, in his mid-seventies, after a long illness. Probably a blessed release, then, despite his youngish age. Just look at some of the…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT CAME to light this week that Queensland Health, presumably with the blessing of the truly evil Queensland Government, is sacking nurses who refused to take ineffective and sometimes lethal pandemic shots. Initially the nurses were stood down….
by GRAHAM YOUNG – ONE step forward and two steps back is the best summary of Australia’s results in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The step forward was that we actually moved forward one place in the world—from 11th…
by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the departure from high office of the Unspellable Premier north of the Tweed, we have lost our last COVID Gauleiter. They are now all gone. This will be widely noted by those of us for whom the…
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…
