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…
by DAVID FLINT – WAS the Reserve Bank so fearful of the Albanese Government’s threat to “reform” it they threw themselves onto the tired elites’ republican bandwagon? In any event, the Bank went along with official creeping republicanism by trashing the long-standing…
by DANIEL TENG – MORE than 19,000 asylum seekers have been given the go-ahead to apply for permanent residency in Australia by the Labor Government. In a statement, the immigration minister said Australia “owed” asylum seekers protection, but at the same time,…
by PAUL COLLITS – ASK a millennial for a definition of “statesman” and you probably won’t get very far. This could be for one or more of three reasons. One, there haven’t been any statesmen since millennials were children, so they don’t…
GUILT-ridden Australians are being persuaded to vote with their hearts –not their heads – as voters side with Anthony Albanese’s proposed race-based constitutional changes. While senior Aboriginal Australians have warned of irreversibly enshrining a black Voice to Parliament, the PM’s feel-good political…
PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has commenced phasing out symbols of Australia’s constitutional monarchy, even before taking his planned changes to a referendum. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth last year, it was widely expected her image on Australia’s $5 note would be…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH a YouGov poll showing 46 per cent will vote Yes and 30 per cent No in the Voice referendum, experience suggests defeat is likely. That will be a good thing. Of course, the elites won’t be happy….
