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…
EDITORIAL – NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is now beholden to the activists of the Liberal Left. He didn’t need to be. If he looked to NSW voters, rather than to Matt Kean and his Star Wars bar mates, he could have been…
by PAUL COLLITS – WELL, blow me down with a feather. Victoria’s dictator, the seemingly unassailable Daniel Andrews, has forcefully declared that “COVID exceptionalism” is over. And one of Victoria’s go-to, tame academics, Catherine Bennett, who was regularly wheeled out to frighten…
VICTORIAN Premier Daniel Andrews has been accused of declaring war against God – having implemented the most immoral social policies in Australian history. Andrews, who’s State Labor government is seeking a third term on November 26, has been berated by Australian Christian…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WE’VE come a long way from the days when female reviewers grumbled that men won all the star parts in movies whilst female characters were one-dimensional props to hero males. Many of the producers and playwrights churning out…
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…
