by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN men accused of sexual crimes of one sort or another have been much in the news of late. Everyone on earth, including, perhaps, in the south of France, has now heard of Brittany Higgins, the latest poster-girl…
by SEAN BURKE – ANTHONY Albanese is running the most secretive, confused and chaotic government in the nation’s history. With “hard-core” criminal illegal immigrants released into the Australian community, Shadow Federal Attorney General Michaelia Cash has accused the Labor government of a…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are ever increasing concerns around the world that the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas could escalate across the Middle East – and beyond. With China rattling the sabre over Taiwan; Russia seemingly pushing and maybe…
by PAUL COLLITS – NOTHING quite gets the blood pressure up than a full-throated discussion on the Israel-Gaza question. In these post 7/10 times, the blood pressure has gone through the ceiling. Only this month, a Jewish passenger on a Jetstar flight…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS WE conclude the annual attacks on the once iconic national day, Politicom’s thoughts have turned to Australian of the Year. And to those who weren’t nominated, but maybe should have been. Whichever side of politics chooses these…
by PAUL COLLITS – POLICIES designed to address physical and mental safety are being malevolently extended to increase State power at the expense of citizens’ rights. The only real right the ruling class now perceives is the right to feel “safe”. The…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS week past, thousands of private jets flew into the heart of darkness. Complete with caviar and hookers. This version plays out, not in the steamy jungles of Belgian Congo (or late 70s Cambodia), but on a snowy…
by PAUL COLLITS – TIME flies, even when you’re not having fun. It is four years this month since Sir Roger Scruton passed. He had cancer, and was 75 years young. Roger Scruton was a British philosopher of the first order, a…
by SEAN BURKE – ONE of Australia’s greatest tennis champions, Margaret Court, has been characterised on national television this week as a second-class human and “delusional Jesus freak”. Melbourne newspaper columnist Justin Smith, who writes for News Ltd and broadcasts on Fairfax/Nine…
by PAUL COLLITS – CURRENT Australian governments have messed around with the foundational principles of democracy, big time. One version of the classic definition of democratic theory, and, in particular, representative democracy, reads: “Consent of the governed” refers to the idea that…
