by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the undoubted strategies of totalitarianism deniers in Australia is the use of the so-called “relativisation of the Holocaust” to shut down debate over the heinous nature of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The approach is to attack…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THERE’S no denying the fact that I’m a tree. For years I was a victim of gaslighting and draconian conversion therapy imposed by insensitive and brutal parents, therapists and counsellors. On the grounds of social justice it’s no…
by PAUL COLLITS – PAUL Keating’s last appearance on the public stage occurred with his mending of fences with his old partner in micro-economic reform, the late Bob Hawke. And his moving eulogy at Hawke’s memorial service in June 2019. What did…
by PAUL COLLITS – HAS the COVID experience really changed us? A recent poll taken in Australia by the University of Tasmania suggests it hasn’t, and that the whole experience was something that came and went, just like everything else. Not much…
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…
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…
by GILES BOINTON – I GRADUATED from medical school in Birmingham in the UK in July 1974. In those days, the requirement was to complete two six-month “house jobs” in what was a pre-registration year before being let loose on the world…
THERE are two kinds of vaccine virtue signalling. The obvious one is everywhere to be seen in the current vaccine dictatorships across the globe. The abuse meted out to the vaccine “refuseniks” has been relentless. The insults (stupid, selfish, granny-killer). The threats. …
by DAVID FLINT ~ HAVING the honour of addressing a citizenship ceremony a few years ago, I told the new citizens that the country whose citizenship they had just received was one of the world’s oldest continuing democracies. Given that we have…
