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by PAUL COLLITS – MY PRECIOUS daughter has passed away, after a year of serious illnesses and intensive care. Bridget Louise Collits (1982-2025), like JFK (as per Robert Dallek, one of his biographers), led an “unfinished life”. The life sentence imprisonment of…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – CHANCES are Australia could be facing another disastrous bushfire season like the one we experienced five years ago, which from a personal perspective came too close to home. I wrote about the night, November 8, 2019, when we…
by SEAN BURKE – AUSTRALIA has become so unhinged it needs to be invaded and its “weak, woke little wimps” rounded up and sent to inland reservations. This is the view of US Daily Wire online commentator Matt Walsh who has almost…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS WE conclude the annual attacks on the once iconic national day, Politicom’s thoughts have turned to Australian of the Year. And to those who weren’t nominated, but maybe should have been. Whichever side of politics chooses these…
by SEAN BURKE – GARRY Burke was one of Australia’s great journalists. Politicom was privileged to have had such a talented and passionate writer – indeed, he was an Oxford scholar. Garry was a deliberative writer, an acclaimed daily newspaper editor, a…
by DAVID FLINT – THE lights went down in Sydney’s Capitol Theatre for Dame Edna Everage’s Farewell Australian Tour, several years ago. “We begin the performance tonight with Dame Edna Everage,” a solemn voice announced, “by honouring the traditional owners of this…
by DAVID FLINT – HOW did George Cardinal Pell, Prince of the Church, become a persecuted political prisoner, Australia’s Cardinal Mindszenty? When the internationally esteemed Cardinal is finally laid to rest in Sydney’s great Basilica, it will be in the crypt already…
by SEAN BURKE – THE nation’s least impressive public figure and a #MeToo feminist have been voted Politicom’s Anti-Australians of the Year. Of 7375 votes cast this month, Labor Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has been resoundingly confirmed as the nation’s most…
by SEAN BURKE – JIM Molan was never one to back down from a battle. His fighting spirit and self-awareness wouldn’t allow it. He lived his life fighting. Wars, political Party factions, elections and, eventually, personal illness. Molan lived a full life…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
