by FRED PAWLE – WELCOME to Country and “traditional ownership” of land are both affronts to the democratic systems and values that made Australia the country it is. Every day under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese I get the uneasy feeling that our…
by ROGER CROOK – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese recently spent six days in China with a plane load of zillionaires from the Australian iron ore industry. Apart from having his metaphorical tummy tickled by his mentor Xi Jinping, Secretary General of the…
by ROGER CROOK – AS A nation we have been in economic decline for some time. It started with Rudd, Gillard, Rudd; there were plans for respite and recovery from Abbott, then his “mates” kicked him out and the decline of Australia…
by MONICA O’SHEA – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese’s new climate change secretary will reel in a $930,000 a year salary, according to a recently released remuneration files. Albanese revealed he would be recommending to Governor-General Sam Mostyn that Mike Kaiser become the…
by FRED PAWLE – WE MIGHT be too busy to contemplate the meaning of this sunburnt country, but circumstances demand we do so anyway. Or perish. This might seem an inappropriate time to ask what’s the purpose of Australia – with inflation…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE the misfortune to live in a local government area with an atrocious city council. Despite huge rates, the uses of which no one in Lismore can readily identify, the place is down at heel, with uncleared…
by ALFRED BUI – AN ACADEMIC has urged a floundering Albanese Government to develop a clear vision for managing its relationship with the US under the Trump administration. This comes amid a lack of progress in several key areas of cooperation. Albanese…
by ROGER CROOK – WHY Iran was allowed by America, the UK and other NATO countries to develop the technology and the ability to construct a nuclear warhead will be debated for many years. The mad men running Iran had promised to…
by SEAN BURKE – US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cancelled talks with Anthony Albanese just minutes after the Australian Prime Minister publicly announced the two would meet. Both leaders were attending a G7 summit in Canada this week, where Mr Albanese was…
by FRED PAWLE – WIDESPREAD pessimism is causing an increasing number of Australians to move overseas. Curiously, Israel, where the future is even bleaker, doesn’t have the same problem. Last Thursday I commented on X that there seemed to be a lot…
