by ROGER CROOK – OF COURSE he isn’t. Andrew Hastie has shown by example that he deserves our respect for his military service. Is he politically thin skinned? That’s another story. You decide. There was a time when I thought that Andrew…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS surely reasonable to expect that, after the trial of Cardinal Pell and the arrest of Alan Jones, the authorities would have learned a lesson. As the US Supreme Court noted in Berger v. United States (1935),…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – AUSTRALIAN veterans have been handing back medals to the Defence Department in a solemn protest against the handling of the Ben Roberts-Smith case. Earlier this month, the Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Investigator arrested…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE news that the Australian Federal Police had arranged for a very public, humiliating removal from a plane at Sydney Airport of Australia’s most decorated soldier-hero, followed by his arrest, travelled around the globe at the speed of…
