by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIANS are right. Regular polling confirms a consistent majority believes the country is “on the wrong track”. At most, 30 per cent think we’re on the right track. One Nation possesses a singular strength: it has no Left…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH NSW’s share of the Goods & Services Tax falling to 82 cents in the dollar, Premier Chris Minns is understandably complaining. Australia is replete with similar problems created over the years by cabals of centralist politicians and…
by DAVID FLINT – THE recent NSW Court of Appeal decision in Jarrett v NSW stands as a stark monument to the folly of judicial activism. It says the legislation introduced by the Minns Government, with bipartisan support, to stop the weekly…
by DAVID FLINT – MUCH more than elections, the most important event in Australia in many a year has been the very clear and strong decision of the Australian people in the Voice referendum. This demonstrates, yet again, that rank-and-file Australians are…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THE Voice referendum fails, international investors, already closely watching the debate, will question whether Australia is a “fair place”, claims Wesfarmers chairman, Michael Chaney. But other CEOs challenged his assertion that they “universally” agreed with him. Albanese…
by SEAN BURKE – SUPPORT for the Voice proposal has crashed with less than half the nation now backing constitutional change, according to latest polling. With the recent release of the referendum question, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s emotive, rather than factual, approach…
by ERIC ABETZ – A VOICE that speaks out of both sides of its mouth is not to be trusted. And so it is with the Voice proposal on which we will need to cast a vote later this year. Having been…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THE Voice were constitutionally enshrined, not only would we risk making the country ungovernable, but we would also fail to “close the gap”. On past experience, as previously argued here, we would only make matters worse. The…
by ERIC ABETZ – CHANGING the law is not easy. Nor should it be. Serious consequences flow. But surely changing our Constitution should be more difficult as even more serious consequences might flow. In 2016 Australians faced a double dissolution election on…
by DAVID FLINT – PERHAPS the best way to compare prime ministers is by their respect for the constitution. Three are in the news these days, Anthony Albanese, John Howard and Gough Whitlam. While Whitlam, a QC, knowingly played the constitutional delinquent…
