by PAUL COLLITS – CURRENT Australian governments have messed around with the foundational principles of democracy, big time. One version of the classic definition of democratic theory, and, in particular, representative democracy, reads: “Consent of the governed” refers to the idea that…
by NICOLE JAMES – IT’S not with a light heart or a trifling spirit that I commit these words to paper, but rather with an earnestness that echoes through the annals of time, much like the resonant clangour of a bell tolling…
by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the departure from high office of the Unspellable Premier north of the Tweed, we have lost our last COVID Gauleiter. They are now all gone. This will be widely noted by those of us for whom the…
by PAUL COLLITS – PROBABLY few Australians realise that their opportunity to make a submission to Australia’s COVID non-inquiry runs out this week. On December 15, 2023, to be precise. That time went quickly. Having carefully scripted the process, and steered everyone…
by DAVID FLINT – WE WILL decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come, declared John Howard in the 2001 election, one which the pundits had declared he was doomed to lose. He won in a landslide,…
by SEAN BURKE – TRADE Union leaders have warned Anthony Albanese to step up – while Liberal Leader Peter Dutton reveals his plans to remove the stumbling Prime Minister by 2025. On top of this, the latest Newspoll has unleashed a world…
by PAUL COLLITS – NEW Zealand has a new government, at last. Jacinda Ardern is merely a grisly memory now – as is her successor, Chris “the vaccines weren’t forced on anyone” Hipkins. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – IT’S that time of year when men are shaving off mustaches – and possibly beards – they’ve grown during Movember to support research into prostate cancer and other serious male disorders. Others, however, like the look and have…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Voice referendum was extremely wasteful, and not only in the mountain of taxpayers’ hard-earned money the Albanese Government flushed, pointlessly, down the drain. It was also wasteful in time lost and worry caused to the rank-and-file, attempting…
