by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA is now inextricably tied to China. If for any reason trade between our two countries should be disrupted, Australia’s economy would rapidly deteriorate and China’s would not. In 1987 when President Ronald Reagan said “Mr Gorbachev tear…
by NICOLE JAMES – IT’S not with a light heart or a trifling spirit that I commit these words to paper, but rather with an earnestness that echoes through the annals of time, much like the resonant clangour of a bell tolling…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by NEIL FLETT – NICKNAMES have a special place in Australian humour, usually (not always) rhyming and usually (not always) funny – but always carrying a barbed truth. If you have a nickname, it often means you’re a mate, perhaps an accepted…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE is a growing realisation in the West that the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis is not the only hostile power. There is what could well be an even greater danger, one from within. Following the failure of the Voice –…
by DAVID FLINT – THE fall of Richard Nixon had disastrous consequences for the West which most commentators have missed. So concludes Gregory Copley, the Washington-based Australian, described by the founder and former president of the US Heritage Foundation, Edwin J Feulner,…
by DAVID FLINT – MORE than anyone else, Paul Keating is responsible for three long decades of wasting vast amounts of taxpayers’ funds. What was perhaps worse, is how he wasted the time and attention of politicians and the media in the…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that in the tradition expressed in the question famously asked by the Roman magistrate, Lucius Cassius, “Cui bono?” (who benefits from this?) we should “follow the money”. The answers would explain the…
by PAUL COLLITS – GEORGE Orwell, sadly much quoted in these times (because everything he warned about has pretty much come true), called it “doublethink”. A simple definition is as follows – “the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as…
BEIJING has, since 2018, been operating covert police operations in Sydney in an attempt to keep a “repressive” check on Australians of Chinese descent. According to the ABC, China’s Public Security Bureau established an official “contact point” in Sydney in 2018. The…
