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…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THE announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to overturn the decision by the Scott Morrison government to punish local councils for refusing to hold citizenship ceremonies on the January 26 has reignited the debate about the significance of…
by DANIEL TENG – AS MAJOR companies opt out of celebrating Australia’s national day, opposition leader Peter Dutton is calling on citizens to be proud of their heritage, not ashamed of it. January 26 marks a public holiday that commemorates the landing…
FINANCIAL services giant KPMG is opening for business on Australia Day, saying staff can take another leave day if they choose. Meanwhile, competitors PwC and Deloitte have similar floating public holiday policies, however, have not been actively signalling the replacement of Australia’s…
