by PAUL COLLITS – OF SEVERAL things that struck me about Rebecca Weisser’s memorable piece on the “leper vote” of unvaccinated deplorables and other sundry COVID dissidents, one line in particular stood out. “Even federal Health Minister Greg Hunt quietly dropped the…
IT MUST be nearly time to resurrect that 1980s comedic vehicle for Judi Dench and her late (real life) husband. It was called A Fine Romance. In these openly gay times, perhaps the updated title should be “A Fine Bromance”. We live…
by PAUL COLLITS – SO HOW is the two-tiered society going in the sunny State of NSW? Is it measuring up to the expectations and preferences of the then NSW Treasurer, now Premier, who stated so vigorously last year that he didn’t…
by PAUL COLLITS – JUST a few months ago, there passed one of the giants of American economics and public policy scholarship. Anthony Downs was 90 and his death was, surprisingly, largely unremarked, even inside the academy, and certainly outside his native…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS to the credit of a group of parliamentarians that an independent cross-Party inquiry has been convened into the Australian response to the pandemic. Absent a Royal Commission, it is only through such an inquiry that a…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE recent, unnerving revelations by Politicom’s Sean Burke about unvaccinated Environment Protection Authority staff being forced out of their jobs were jolting to many in NSW. It begs the question, just how widespread are employment-related vaccine mandates in…
AS TENS of thousands of Australians from all walks of life gathered at the nation’s capital to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Prime Minister Scott Morrison pointed the finger at State governments that “unilaterally” imposed mandates via public health orders. Marching through Canberra…
THAT popular Aussie stalwart actor, Ray Meagher (of Home and Away fame) has taken in his autumn years to advertising a product called Revitive, claimed to be a circulation booster. The increasingly out-of-touch “leaders” of various Australian jurisdictions should have poached Ray…
DEAR Premier, So, now we are in the age of geographical gaslighting. Bullying by postcode. Well done, Mr Perrottet and your little friend at The Australian (one Rhiannon Down, who has a tag on her twitter account “get vaxxed asap”). I see…
TYPE-casting and then bagging those who choose not to get a COVID jab is an emerging sub-genre of journalism, or what passes for it. Those who provide commentary and who write columns are especially prone to give in to what is clearly…
