by ROWEN DEAN – IT IS with deep sadness and shock that I learned of the passing away of Teena McQueen, former Federal Vice-President of the Liberal Party. Teena recently moved to One Nation. She was an incredibly dear friend and a…
by DAVID FLINT – IF AN election were held now, an opinion poll in The Australian Financial Review concludes that One Nation could win fifty-nine seats. Labor would clutch on to power with a margin of just one seat. If, after the…
by FRED PAWLE – IT’S easy to appeal to everyday Australians. Just stick to your principles, don’t spout pretentious garbage – and stay away from paedophiles. When Queen Elizabeth II gave birth to her second son in 1960, the property developers of…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – PAULINE Hanson, who heads the conservative-leaning One Nation Party is now the most popular political leader in Australia, according to new polling. It’s the latest in a string of polls showing Hanson’s steady rise since the May federal…
by JOHN RUDDICK – WESTERN politics moves in cycles between Left and Right. Some cycles are longer than others. A cycle comes to an end when the leadership of the dominant political outlook goes too far. The Right ran the West from…
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…
