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…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ACCORDING to recent calls by the Australian Greens, alarmist scientists and leaders from the UN and World Economic Forum, we should all become climate activists to save the world from “an era of global boiling”. We saw the…
THE Albanese Government is on track to be a one term government. The odds are shortening – considerably. If this government is that bad – and it is – perhaps we might have a fresh candidate in the ongoing debate about who…
by NEIL FLETT – NICKNAMES have a special place in Australian humour, usually (not always) rhyming and usually (not always) funny – but always carrying a barbed truth. If you have a nickname, it often means you’re a mate, perhaps an accepted…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE odds against Anthony Albanese making it back to the Lodge for a second term must be lengthening by the day. Ditto the odds of him even being there for the ALP’s next election launch. Some time back…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS week the mighty Reserve Bank of Australia, cheerleader for printing money no one has, increased interest rates yet again, plunging millions of Australians further into hoc and, for many, despair. The purpose of this monetary carnage is…
by JESSIE ZHANG – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has offered asylum to all residents of the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu claiming “climate change could impact their homeland”. The move provides a pathway for Tuvalu citizens to relocate and access Australian services…
