by PAUL COLLITS – WHY the hell is Peter Dutton supporting this obvious Trojan Horse legislation? – The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024. Just when you thought it was safe(ish) to trust the Liberals again, we get this…
by FRED PAWLE – TODAY’S decision to restrict access to social media is a collusion between illegitimate politicians and media companies that can’t accept their hegemony is over. If you think the government is restricting access to social media to protect children,…
by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian mainstream media marked the death of the government’s Censorship Bill today by censoring debate about it. As hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens celebrated the announcement on Friday evening that the government’s Bill will fail to…
by ROGER CROOK – BEN Chifley was no ordinary Prime Minister; he had come through the Labor ranks the hard way. A train driver by profession and driven (no pun intended), like his predecessor John Curtin, he had experienced a world war,…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR accents notwithstanding, it used to be difficult to tell the difference between Australians and Americans. We watched the same TV shows, listened to the same music and shared both a natural optimism about life and a scepticism…
by FRED PAWLE – THERE are many lessons the Australian government could have taken from the US presidential election. Don’t be authoritarian, don’t lie to the people, don’t expect a lame incumbent to win and don’t take an abysmal record in office…
by PAUL COLLITS – HISTORY repeats, first as tragedy then as farce, as Anthony Albanese’s guiding mentor Karl Marx once stated. I couldn’t help but notice one of Freebie Albanese’s more recent indiscretions. With a political tin ear that is hard to…
by FRED PAWLE – LOVE isn’t Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s strong point. We know this because he weirdly keeps banging on about it like a blue-haired feminist who won’t stop talking about her abortions. News Corp tabloids published an “intimate” interview with…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are at least two people in Australia today who have the power and, I think, the fundamental ability to cause change – all they have to do is use it. Should they rise to the challenge they…
by ROGER CROOK – DO THE latest opinion polls indicate that more than a few Australians are suffering from voter remorse? Most of us have experienced buyer remorse. The heart overrules the head for a moment; a rash act is often followed…
