by PAUL COLLITS – THE news came through this week that former NSW ALP Treasurer Michael Egan had passed away, in his mid-seventies, after a long illness. Probably a blessed release, then, despite his youngish age. Just look at some of the…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIBERTARIANS and conservatives have often disagreed – and they still do. The divide may be growing. The “fusionist” project of postwar conservatives – mainly in America – of figures like William F Buckley and Frank Meyer, has all…
by PAUL COLLITS – NEW Zealand has a new government, at last. Jacinda Ardern is merely a grisly memory now – as is her successor, Chris “the vaccines weren’t forced on anyone” Hipkins. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS week in London a new group called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship – a sort of alt-Davos, or even an anti-Davos – has been meeting for two days of alt-thinking and talking. While the roster at first…
by PAUL COLLITS – MANY of today’s readers may not know who John Hyde is. Certainly, very few under forty would have heard of him. John Hyde is a retired Western Australian farmer, writer, think-tank commissar and former MP who, in the…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party will continue its trajectory to political oblivion if it fails to find new and substantial talent in the next electoral cycle. One opportunity for an infusion of new blood occurs in the seat of Castle…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – WHAT is conservatism and what does it mean to be conservative? Given the federal election result and the arguments put by LINOs (Liberal in Name Only), including Simon Birmingham, that the Liberal Party must be more progressive and…
by TONY ABBOTT at CPAC – WHEN you’re prevented by law from having large gatherings, for the best part of three years, these surely have been dispiriting times. Certainly, it’s been hard to practice freedom and enterprise, locked up in your house,…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – WESTERN civilisation, instead of being valued even as its faults are acknowledged, is attacked as “Eurocentric” and riven with “white supremacism”. One of the most grievous crimes one can commit is to question the need for radical change…
