by PAUL COLLITS – THE departing Member for Hornsby has the nose of Pinocchio. His latest lie was to suggest that he was off to seek new opportunities “in the energy industry”. Little did we know that this had a more specific…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE dystopian future predicted in the Mad Max movie franchise may be closer than ever and it won’t take World War III to make it a reality. To me, the only ones worth watching were the original and…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – OH THE irony. Here I was reading our local Noosa newspaper last Saturday morning and laughing when the power started to blink off and on half a dozen times before finally cutting out completely. And staying off for…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – WHEN he was prime minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard regularly warned colleagues against hubris. I suspect that he was reminding himself as much as his fellow MPs. Hubris was a cardinal sin for the ancient Greeks. It…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOUR of Australia’s most disturbing public figures – Mike Cannon-Brookes, Chris Bowen, Malcolm Turnbull and Wyatt Roy – are all in the news at the same time, and in the same story. They are dishonestly taking money from…
by DAVID FLINT – THE news that the Paris-based OECD has confirmed that Australia has suffered the biggest drop in living standards in two decades would be unknown to most Australians, including the voters in the recent Dunkley by-election. Nor would they…
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 ROGER CROOK – BRITAIN and Australia share many things. The first non-Aboriginal occupants of this country, at least in any number, were British. We also share a common language. While the third and most important feature we share with each other…
by ERIC ABETZ – AS LABOR parliamentarians gathered in Canberra last week to brainstorm the cost of living crisis, most constituents were bemused as to why it has taken so long. As publicity stunts and PR operations go, having a special caucus…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE entire Western world has come to believe that anyone feeling offence, or claims to, has a right to call a halt to all human proceedings. Our current global madness is marked by governments, often popularly elected, who…
