by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA is no longer self-reliant, and its self-sufficiency is no longer a national ambition. We are surrounded by oceans and lack any capacity to ensure that the sea lanes, vital to our very existence, remain open. Electricity and…
by FRED PAWLE – THE symbolic colonisation of the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Islamists this month was just another step along Australia’s suicidal road to nowhere. In a brilliant speech delivered three days before he died of a heart attack in March…
by ROGER CROOK – THE definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and expecting a different result. Attributed to Einstein, but it can be traced back to the 19th Century — it is one of the great truths. The first action…
by FRED PAWLE – WHY would a politician bother trying to improve a nation when it’s easier to ruin it instead? If you are a politician who, for whatever reason, wants to destroy the nation you govern, follow these four simple but…
by FRED PAWLE – WELCOME to Country and “traditional ownership” of land are both affronts to the democratic systems and values that made Australia the country it is. Every day under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese I get the uneasy feeling that our…
by ROGER CROOK – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese recently spent six days in China with a plane load of zillionaires from the Australian iron ore industry. Apart from having his metaphorical tummy tickled by his mentor Xi Jinping, Secretary General of the…
by ROGER CROOK – AS A nation we have been in economic decline for some time. It started with Rudd, Gillard, Rudd; there were plans for respite and recovery from Abbott, then his “mates” kicked him out and the decline of Australia…
by MONICA O’SHEA – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese’s new climate change secretary will reel in a $930,000 a year salary, according to a recently released remuneration files. Albanese revealed he would be recommending to Governor-General Sam Mostyn that Mike Kaiser become the…
by FRED PAWLE – WE MIGHT be too busy to contemplate the meaning of this sunburnt country, but circumstances demand we do so anyway. Or perish. This might seem an inappropriate time to ask what’s the purpose of Australia – with inflation…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE the misfortune to live in a local government area with an atrocious city council. Despite huge rates, the uses of which no one in Lismore can readily identify, the place is down at heel, with uncleared…
