by DAVID FLINT – WITH the Federal Opposition opposed to a constitutionally entrenched Voice, it would be surprising if there were no interest in the views of Liberal Party founder Sir Robert Menzies. On second thoughts, that may not be so surprising….
by DAVID FLINT – THE ailing politicians’ republic has finally given up the ghost. Australia’s future now seems assured as a crowned republic with an Australian as Head of State. Curiously, it was the Australian Republican Movement’s (ARM) very own silver bullet…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS clear the radical elite class that now rules over the rest of us are formidable chess players. Great chess players think five moves ahead, or more. We often hear of the long march through the institutions,…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – THERE is more care than productivity in this budget. Literally, “care” is one of the most frequently used words. In last week’s budget, the word received 20 mentions, while “productivity” had just four. PM Anthony Albanese told ABC’s…
by SEAN BURKE – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese is telling voters his Voice proposal is no big deal while at the same time telling Aboriginal activists that it’s “a very big deal, indeed”. Former prime minister Tony Abbott told The Institute of…
by SEAN BURKE – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton’s comprehensive rejection of Labor’s Voice proposal will spell the end for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Editor of The Spectator Australia magazine Rowan Dean today suggested Labor could lose government over its divisive race-based agenda. …
by DAVID FLINT – IN THE event that the Voice referendum is successful, one thing is certain. It will not, indeed cannot, close the gap. The fundamental requirement for referendum success is the government come with clean hands, as John Howard’s did…
by DAVID FLINT – IN THAT vast phalanx of taxpayer-funded partisan advisers surrounding Prime Minister Albanese, couldn’t one of them have reminded him of Aesop’s fable, The boy who cried wolf? The moral is that a known liar will never be believed,…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that in the tradition expressed in the question famously asked by the Roman magistrate, Lucius Cassius, “Cui bono?” (who benefits from this?) we should “follow the money”. The answers would explain the…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – LAST year was the Golden Jubilee of the election of Gough Whitlam’s government, as well as the inaugural year of Anthony Albanese’s. Whitlam faced similar economic challenges to Albanese and had some strikingly similar solutions, leading some to…
