by FRED PAWLE – THE people in power in Australia want us to believe clumsy patriots are the enemy while largely ignoring those who actually wish – and cause – us harm. “Once an Aussie flag man marched by a cenotaph…” As…
by THE SPECTATOR – IT IS quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut down colonial trees as an act of protest. All the while believing that we are in the middle…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to force all local councils to hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26 — Australia Day. “I don’t want us to be divided. I want us to stand up for what we…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – A PUB and hotel chain has quickly backtracked just hours after announcing Australia Day parties would be banned at its 200 venues across the nation. Australian Venue Co said it was not allowing the celebrations because of the…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA’S character and national spirit – forged and honed, damaged and repaired through two world wars and a great depression – is now hard to find in this 21st Century multi-racial, multicultural nation. Life in Australia today is…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS WE conclude the annual attacks on the once iconic national day, Politicom’s thoughts have turned to Australian of the Year. And to those who weren’t nominated, but maybe should have been. Whichever side of politics chooses these…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton is 100 per cent correct to call on shoppers to boycott Woolworths. And Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again proved what a tin ear he has when it comes to appreciating the national…
by ROGER CROOK – I AM an 85-year-old Australian agriculturalist and a nationalist; I live in Albany, a remote town on the far south coast of Western Australia. We are remote because we are 450km from our capital city, Perth; Albany, a…
by DAVID FLINT – SENATOR Jacinta Price astounded the nation during the recent referendum campaign when, courageously, she dared tell a journalist there were no ongoing negative impacts of colonisation. The only continuing impacts, she said, were positive. A small but determined…
by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIA Day celebrates the settlement of Australia and the benefits to all, however imperfect, that could only have come from the most benign and advanced colonial power at the time, and with the Americans, in recorded history. This…
