by DAVID FLINT – THERE are two leading trends in Australian politics which are firming against Labor – and which, I suspect, will hold through to the next election. The first is one I arrived at before seeing Peta Credlin’s recent eloquent…
by DAVID DAINTREE – HOW long will King Charles reign over this realm of Australia? I’m in favour of the King, but not particularly optimistic about his future here. In 1995, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who was at that time CEO…
by DAVID FLINT – WAS the Reserve Bank so fearful of the Albanese Government’s threat to “reform” it they threw themselves onto the tired elites’ republican bandwagon? In any event, the Bank went along with official creeping republicanism by trashing the long-standing…
by DAVID FLINT – ONCE assumed inevitable, elite so-called “republicanism” suffered a landslide defeat at the hands of a nationwide grassroots movement in the 1999 referendum. Long comatose, their republic has just passed away, unmourned. It has taken elite “republicans” more than…
by DAVID FLINT – POLLING, it has been said, is funded not to measure, but to shape public opinion. Obvious in the 2020 US election, however, there is little evidence of this in Australia. But as demonstrated here, the polls can be…
by DAVID FLINT – AFTER three decades, why are taxpayers still forced to underwrite something they clearly don’t want, a politicians’ republic? The reaction to any referendum should always be, as Alan Jones famously said in 1999, “If you don’t know, vote…
by DAVID FLINT – IT WAS typical of the man. Some of the most prominent defenders of the Crown had assembled at Sydney’s Union Club to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, including two former prime ministers and a former head of state. Michael…
by DAVID FLINT – BILLED to speak after Tony Abbott in Melbourne recently, I sought inspiration from his foreword years ago to Twilight of The Elites. “To the Paddington republican set,” he wrote, “Flint should have been one of them. Weren’t people…
by DAVID FLINT – AS OUR captured two-Party system embeds robotic politicians in the parliaments, their language is drying up and becoming highly formulaic. This is associated with another Orwellian phenomenon, rewriting history, even for opinion polls. Why does medical advice never,…
By DAVID FLINT – IN THE nineteenth century, becoming a republic was argued to be the only way Australia could remain a white nation. In the twentieth century, communists argued that Australia should become a Soviet or people’s republic. Supporting Australia becoming…
