by PAUL COLLITS – ONLY about 32 per cent of Australian voters gave Labor their first preference at the 2022 federal election. There was no ringing endorsement, despite a decade of ignominious and corrupted Liberal rule. Certainly, there was no mandate. It’s…
by ROGER CROOK – ANTHONY Albanese’s agency tasked with delivering a $10b affordable housing fund for low-income families paid more than $24m to external consultants and $6m in annual executive salaries last year, despite not having yet delivered a single completed house. …
by ROGER CROOK – IS ANTHONY Albanese the right person to be prime minister of Australia? He has changed in the past two years; he has regressed, reverted to the Albanese we knew so well over the decades. The chubby, angry man…
by BETTINA ARNDT – MESSAGE to our politicians: If you have ever deluded yourself that you could ever harness the angry women’s vote, take a good look at our Prime Minister’s debacle late last month. PM Anthony Albanese indulged in classic virtue…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – LIFE really can be bitter sweet. It can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when least expected. But sometimes, when all appears dark, a light appears. This has happened to me more than once and I can only hope…
by DAVID FLINT – THE fact that no highly respected economist is lauding the budget, and the public is clearly unimpressed, is bad enough for the Albanese Government. Worse, opposition leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech significantly increased the trend of him…
by DAVID FLINT – I WAS asked recently to introduce Tony Abbott at a function. Along with national leaders of the standing of John Howard and Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump, Tony would not have shamed the nation by slapping…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN 1979, I commenced a Masters degree – by thesis, when Masters degrees actually meant something – in the Political Science Department of the Australian National University’s School of General Studies. A once great institution. Here, I had…
by DAVID FLINT – ELON Musk is performing an outstanding service for all Australians. He reminds us not only of our heritage as free people, but also of our duty to fight to preserve it. Not long after Captain Cook meticulously mapped…
by HENRY JOM – THE Australian Bureau of Statistics has backflipped on its decision to collect Australians’ ethnic data, citing “significant issues” and “complexities”. This comes amid criticisms that the decision will prevent Australians from knowing the change in demography as the…
