by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE Greens have unveiled a major election policy promising free lunches to every student in Australia’s public school system. The initiative is estimated to cost $11.6b over the four-year forward estimates by the Parliamentary Budget Office. Liberal…
by NICK BURY – NO ENRON or crypto currency rort could ever hope to lay a glove on global warming’s fraudulent infamy. The cruelty it has occasioned to poor people – for no net environmental gain – is for the history books. …
by FRED PAWLE – EVEN now, 90 years later, we don’t fully understand how Nazism came about. From the lofty height of hindsight, we simply conclude that its evilness and inevitable demise should have been blindingly obvious to everyone at the time,…
by DANIEL Y TENG – AT ONE point in modern history, Australia was a world leader in promoting individual freedom and enterprise. The accession of Robert Menzies, who would be the country’s longest-serving prime minister, ushered in almost two decades of continued…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – I’VE seen the light, the truth about “carbon pollution” in simple terms as explained by some Green dream believers and disciples of the new climate change religion. So why am I still in the dark? I’ve always wondered…
by PETER CASTLE – MOST people agree that energy policy in Australia has been a “failure” for the past 20 years. Dig a little deeper and you will find that what experts disagree on is which direction it failed in. In Australia,…
by DAVID DAINTREE – “WHEN men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything.” (Anon, but ascribed to G.K. Chesterton) “… it is not possible to pierce the mystery…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the trials of living in the early twenty-first century is the fact that it is the godless, cashed-up-bogan era. Such has been our great misfortune. It is a time of ugliness, in art, architecture, in popular…
by DAVID FLINT – THE saying “The only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history” may be dismissed as a sweeping generalisation. But as the formidable general Sir John Glubb – Glubb Pashah – remarked, it is…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – ONE of the most successful strategies used by the cultural-Left to radically reshape society in its utopian image is redefining language to suit its agenda. As noted by George Orwell: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt…
