by PAUL COLLITS – SIMON Birmingham’s seemingly sudden retirement from politics caught a few people by surprise. He has left the building with the Liberals on the cusp of a possible, equally surprising, return to government in 2025. Birmingham thinks Dutton will…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – A PUB and hotel chain has quickly backtracked just hours after announcing Australia Day parties would be banned at its 200 venues across the nation. Australian Venue Co said it was not allowing the celebrations because of the…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – ONE of the most disturbing examples of Woke indoctrination is the way indigenous history, culture and spirituality are lauded – while always remaining beyond criticism. Western culture, meanwhile, is demonised and condemned as Eurocentric, patriarchal, binary and oppressive. …
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has warned that Australia must have a US ambassador who can stablise relations between the two nations. Mr Dutton’s comments come amid speculation that former PM Kevin Rudd could be nearing his final days…
by PAUL COLLITS – WE ARE in a new world. Anything we used to take for granted about politics no longer applies. The American magazine, First Things, under the leadership of RR Reno, is not just “America’s most influential journal of religion…
by PAUL COLLITS – HAVING twice faced the serious possibility of losing my daughter this year, I can only imagine the anguish of those who have actually participated in the death their own child – only later to be remorseful. TV’s Father…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE NSW Parliament has further expanded creeping LGBTQ privileges at the risk of harming vulnerable children. The Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 was passed on Thursday, marking a further expansion of queer rights. Labor Attorney General…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHAT will future historians know and think about the 2020s? Will there even be historians in the future? I once asked Professor Ian Plimer why he persisted in engaging in rational debate over climate change, when his opponents…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – BELEAGUERED Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto might have survived a potential leadership spill this week over his mishandling of the Moira Deeming expulsion controversy, but that’s not the end of the story. The fact he was unchallenged says…
by ROGER CROOK – DO THE latest opinion polls indicate that more than a few Australians are suffering from voter remorse? Most of us have experienced buyer remorse. The heart overrules the head for a moment; a rash act is often followed…
