by FRED PAWLE – ANTHONY Albanese has made a bold move to snatch the nation’s retirement savings for his own authoritarian purposes. As Australia’s superannuation scheme suggests, the people who own the money can’t be trusted to invest it themselves. The most…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHATEVER else has happened this week past, there is one story above all others that has captured the attention of the disgruntled outsider class. Forget about the now routine Trump assassination attempts, Hezbollah rockets raining down on Northern…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN politicians are increasingly demanding that voters forget about pandemic lockdowns (and Islamic terror). The first and only rule of the post-pandemic political classes is to never, ever mention the failure of their COVID response. “Just shut up!” …
by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the departure from high office of the Unspellable Premier north of the Tweed, we have lost our last COVID Gauleiter. They are now all gone. This will be widely noted by those of us for whom the…
by PAUL COLLITS – PROBABLY few Australians realise that their opportunity to make a submission to Australia’s COVID non-inquiry runs out this week. On December 15, 2023, to be precise. That time went quickly. Having carefully scripted the process, and steered everyone…
by PAUL COLLITS – LABOR’S new Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has been personally responsible for the creation of more public debt than perhaps anyone else in Australia’s history. In her former ministerial portfolios she spent like a drunken sailor – making Gough…
by PAUL COLLITS – DANIEL Andrews has mercifully departed the Victorian premiership after serving as one of the most destructive leaders in Australian history. My mother and her generation, perhaps evoking a Christian ethos as well as traditional notions of manners, used…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE new NSW Premier, Chris Minns, hasn’t, so far, embraced a bromance with his southern counterpart in the weird way his Liberal predecessor, Dominic Perrottet, did. Chris Minns’ good buddy, the endlessly acerbic and coarse Sydney breakfast radio…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOLLOWING the deserved public humiliation of Gladys Berejiklian, all sorts of people whose judgement is normally sound have come out swinging against the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. I would have thought we were in Blind Freddie territory…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE’S a desperate need, it seems, for an official Vice Regal Etiquette Manual. But not one about how we should behave in the presence of a viceroy. Rather, a manual about how viceroys should behave, especially when they…
