by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN bishops are currently in the news. In the case of Western Sydney this week, for the wrong reasons. Very nearly tragic news, for Assyrian Orthodox Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. The good Bishop, whose words have been…
by DAVID FLINT – SENATOR Jacinta Price astounded the nation during the recent referendum campaign when, courageously, she dared tell a journalist there were no ongoing negative impacts of colonisation. The only continuing impacts, she said, were positive. A small but determined…
by BETTINA ARNDT – REMEMBER how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing the frequency of false allegations of sexual assault? That broke the rules prohibiting jury members from accessing outside…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT IS hardly surprising Federal Transport Minister Catherine King is trying to avoid scrutiny over her decision to reject more flights for Qatar Airlines due to her concern about the Doha strip search. Here was ideology trumping proper…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE work of third-wave feminists – the #MeToo Barbie generation – is never done. It came to my attention recently that a gutter-presser and latter-day (very) minor podcaster from Adelaide – Yass with gays – thinks that I…
by DAVID FLINT – IS THE Albanese Government’s over-extended media honeymoon finally drawing to a close? Even the ABC was not able to avoid mentioning the Brittany Higgins scandal of which the government’s Senator Gallagher is only the tip. Why did Albanese’s…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is danger in writing an article on COVID’s passing parade – you just know there will be more “pandemic” gauleiters tip-toeing from the wreckage almost before you hit “save”. And so it has transpired … two in…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the recent news that the ABC is racist. Surely someone is taking the mickey. The viewers and listeners – I cannot claim to have been other than an accidental…
by DAVID FLINT – ON RARE occasions, a report can constitute a major turning point, even for the world. The latest Durham Report should be such a turning point. It should bring the United States, the leader of the free world, back…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WOMEN work harder than men. That was the sexist headline for an article earlier this year on The Conversation. Hardly unusual, given that the overburdened woman is a favoured theme with our media intent on singing women’s praises…
