by GARRY BURKE – SCOTT Morrison may prove to be the most damaging leader the once-conservative Liberal Party has ever had. He has steam-rolled constitutional norms in both the nation and the NSW Liberal Party. And he has weakened the argument on…
by DAVID FLINT – AFTER three decades, why are taxpayers still forced to underwrite something they clearly don’t want, a politicians’ republic? The reaction to any referendum should always be, as Alan Jones famously said in 1999, “If you don’t know, vote…
by ALEXANDER VOLTZ – THE Albanese Government’s appointment of a first ever Assistant Minister for the Republic has put Australia on a path to ditch its queen, its constitution and its inherent freedoms – by stealth. The country’s newly-elected Labor Government seems…
by DAVID FLINT – IT WAS typical of the man. Some of the most prominent defenders of the Crown had assembled at Sydney’s Union Club to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, including two former prime ministers and a former head of state. Michael…
by DAVID FLINT – ANTHONY Albanese claims he won’t push “the” republic in his first term. Why then has he so disgracefully delivered a slap in the face to our monarch at the very time of the celebration of her 70 years…
by GABRIEL MOENS – LABOR PM Anthony Albanese has unveiled a ministry consisting of forty-two ministers who were sworn in on June 1 by Governor-General David Hurley. One notable choice is the appointment of Matt Thistlethwaite as Assistant Minister for the Republic. …
by DAVID FLINT – BILLED to speak after Tony Abbott in Melbourne recently, I sought inspiration from his foreword years ago to Twilight of The Elites. “To the Paddington republican set,” he wrote, “Flint should have been one of them. Weren’t people…
AUSTRALIA’s so-called republicans, and those in the Queen’s fifteen realms, including the United Kingdom, would be foolish to take much solace from the constitutional change rammed through the Barbados Parliament by a political class who are clearly both wary and contemptuous of…
by DAVID FLINT ~ HAVING the honour of addressing a citizenship ceremony a few years ago, I told the new citizens that the country whose citizenship they had just received was one of the world’s oldest continuing democracies. Given that we have…
THE case for the Commonwealth is compelling when we watch a weak American President perform in uncertain times. Joe Biden has rarely been right on foreign policy in forty years – even before his cognitive decline he opposed finding and killing Osama…
