by JOHN MIKKELSEN – I’M SURE Banjo Paterson would be rolling in his grave if he learned that the beautiful wild brumbies that featured in his immortal The Man from Snowy River are again being subjected to an extensive aerial cull. “Cull” is…
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 PAUL COLLITS – GOUGH Whitlam once responded to a heckler at a public gathering who was banging on about his policy on abortion by saying, “Madam, in your case could we make it retrospective?” Well, hate speech is in the news,…
by FRED PAWLE – IT TAKES political cunning to deal with State-funded medical staff boasting about killing patients. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns rise to the challenge. “You’ve got to jail people. Not just anybody who breaks the…
by PAUL COLLITS – NSW Premier Chris Minns has done a “sit down” interview. Wow, the issue at hand must be important. It is, but, inevitably, what the current Premier has to contribute on the topic is narrow, paltry, self-serving and insignificant. …
by ALFRED BUI – NSW’s Labor Government has introduced legislation prohibiting all LGBTQ conversion therapies performed by religious communities. Church groups, however, have warned the move will serve to affirm medical practices that mutilate children. The bill has bias toward affirming gender-transition…
by ERIC ABETZ – WHAT is it about the relentless pursuit of so-called renewable energy by our leaders that they overlook the need to provide affordable and reliable electricity supply to Australians? Especially at a time when the cost of living is…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA’s economy has, as long as we can remember, relied upon mass immigration, including by, but not limited to, Asian students on a visa pathway, to keep the place afloat. It is a Ponzi scheme. Since we gave…
by PAUL COLLITS – AMERICAN intellectual, statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin never got to be President. His Macquarie Street namesake, no intellectual and certainly no statesman, has. Today. President of the NSW Legislative Council. I had thought that propriety in government…
by SEAN BURKE – NSW Coalition MP Ben Franklin has been warned he’d be referred to the Corruption Commissioner if he strikes a deal with Premier Chris Minns to hand Labor the balance of power in the Upper House. The Young Liberal…
