by FRED PAWLE – OUR accents notwithstanding, it used to be difficult to tell the difference between Australians and Americans. We watched the same TV shows, listened to the same music and shared both a natural optimism about life and a scepticism…
by FRED PAWLE – THERE are many lessons the Australian government could have taken from the US presidential election. Don’t be authoritarian, don’t lie to the people, don’t expect a lame incumbent to win and don’t take an abysmal record in office…
by PAUL COLLITS – HISTORY repeats, first as tragedy then as farce, as Anthony Albanese’s guiding mentor Karl Marx once stated. I couldn’t help but notice one of Freebie Albanese’s more recent indiscretions. With a political tin ear that is hard to…
by FRED PAWLE – LOVE isn’t Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s strong point. We know this because he weirdly keeps banging on about it like a blue-haired feminist who won’t stop talking about her abortions. News Corp tabloids published an “intimate” interview with…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are at least two people in Australia today who have the power and, I think, the fundamental ability to cause change – all they have to do is use it. Should they rise to the challenge they…
by ROGER CROOK – DO THE latest opinion polls indicate that more than a few Australians are suffering from voter remorse? Most of us have experienced buyer remorse. The heart overrules the head for a moment; a rash act is often followed…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ISRAEL’S recent targeted attacks on Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies have been praised or condemned depending on political perspectives. But one factor seems to have universal acceptance by the Right and the woke Left. …
by SEAN BURKE – ANTHONY Albanese’s industrial relations position is so out of step with Australian interests he could find himself on the back bench, according to Professor Ian Plimer. The high-profile geologist and political commentator warned if the Prime Minister doesn’t…
by PAUL COLLITS – OPPOSITION Leader Peter Dutton has reduced Australia’s minimally venerated Prime Minister to a gibbering, spittle-flecked wreck of a leader. Clearly, Mr Dutton’s astonishing achievement of parity or better on preferred prime minister polling as a first term opposition…
by DAVID FLINT – NOT only are we living under Australia’s most incompetent, wasteful and retrograde federal government, but it’s now irretrievably tainted. The Albanese Government is indisputably the first federal government tainted by a greater scandal than the Scullin Labor government’s…
