by KEVIN DONNELLY – A RECENT report investigating governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic criticised the States’ mismanagement and over-reach. Even more frightening and unsettling is the way politicians, with the help of health experts and the media, trashed essential liberties and…
by DAVID FLINT – ACTING against corruption should obviously be just and efficient. This basic consideration should not be abandoned in parliament’s unseemly rush to ram through the National Anti-Corruption Commission bills before their long summer break. Taxpayers should not be left…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS often said by those going into public life that they wish to make a difference. This requires an attachment to principle stronger than the wish for advancement. It is not common. I recently interviewed a man…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT SEEMS that every time it rains in Lismore now, there emerge a clutch of do-good politicians and bureaucrats to shout “flood!” Even if the Bureau of Meteorology is simply saying “heavy showers” if you are googling the…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the undoubted strategies of totalitarianism deniers in Australia is the use of the so-called “relativisation of the Holocaust” to shut down debate over the heinous nature of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The approach is to attack…
by PAUL COLLITS – ON JUNE 7, 2022, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that his Government was ending vaccine mandates. Mr Perrottet said he had “made it very clear that we are ending vaccine mandates” and had met with…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE are many, alas, still unpunished, crimes perpetrated by the Australian COVID class. The list is almost endless, and, sadly, familiar. Lost education. Lost careers. Recession. Endless deficits. Crushed small businesses. Suicides. Mental health collapse. Dying loved ones,…
NSW’s activist Treasurer Matt Kean is searching for a safer seat in the hope of avoiding a preselection battle in his once untouchable seat of Hornsby. A combination of fed-up Liberal pre-selectors and a boundary redistribution has eaten into Mr Kean’s confidence…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE’S a whiff of a dying government in Macquarie Street. While seeking to sell an election budget delivered by a treasurer who, in a rare moment of public service, was seen doing his job rather than white-anting his…
NSW BUDGET – IRATE former Federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has laid waste to Matt Kean’s first State budget, saying the L-plate Treasurer was “so far Left” he was incapable of even “spelling Liberal”. The former MP for Mackellar was scathing of Mr…
