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…
by JESSIE ZHANG – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has offered asylum to all residents of the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu claiming “climate change could impact their homeland”. The move provides a pathway for Tuvalu citizens to relocate and access Australian services…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE is a growing realisation in the West that the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis is not the only hostile power. There is what could well be an even greater danger, one from within. Following the failure of the Voice –…
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 – THE massive outpouring of grief by the Australian Left for the plight of Middle Eastern terrorists is, quite frankly, weird. An old white guy carrying a Palestinian flag was seen wandering through beautiful Queen Elizabeth Park in Lithgow,…
