INDIGENOUS Senator Jacinta Price has called for an “Asian Voice to parliament” that would specifically advise how to improve Labor MP Penny Wong’s life. In a stirring address to CPAC Australia this month, Senator Price said the government’s attempts to create racial…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE election of a Right-wing prime minister in Italy was all too much for the dreary Left. The Guardian’s Van Badham, an expert in emotive identity politics, disgorged that the rise of “fascist-adjacent Giorgia Meloni is a public…
by REBECCA ZHU – CONSERVATIVE Australians must join the culture wars if they’re to push back against radical race and gender theories taught in classrooms, warns the Institute of Public Affairs’ Bella d’Abrera. In an address to CPAC Australia this week, Dr…
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 STEVEN SCHWARTZ – A NANOSECOND after US President Joe Biden announced the partial cancellation of American student loans, a collection of interest groups demanded the Australian government do the same. The government should not comply. Cancelling Australian student loans is unfair,…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA’S gullible politicians and their hired bureaucrats now favour “solving” non-problems – all while ignoring the nation’s real issues. Think virus-chasing, climate “emergencies”, republicanism and getting more women into politics. Non-problems, all. Self-interested ideologues achieve their policy outcomes…
POLITICOM contributor Kevin Donnelly’s latest book will launch in Sydney this month shining a spotlight on the danger of prioritising emotions over morals. Dr Donnelly’s The Dictionary Of Woke examines how far things can go wrong when politeness and sensitivity replace hard-learned…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – GEORGE Orwell argued that “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”. The recent floods and overflowing dams around Sydney prove the Australian climate activist Tim Flannery must have been in la-la land when arguing that…
by BETTINA ARNDT – LIZ Truss, who may well become the next UK Prime Minister, has pledged to slash 350 woke jobs from the civil service, claiming such jobs “distract from delivering on the British people’s priorities”. It would take a lot…
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,…
