by ROGER CROOK – BEHIND the headlines that make us sit up and take notice – like the trillion-dollar national debt or Albanese’s grubby melon joke – there are some unpleasant truths for this nation to absorb. The first truth is that…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS surely reasonable to expect that, after the trial of Cardinal Pell and the arrest of Alan Jones, the authorities would have learned a lesson. As the US Supreme Court noted in Berger v. United States (1935),…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – AUSTRALIAN veterans have been handing back medals to the Defence Department in a solemn protest against the handling of the Ben Roberts-Smith case. Earlier this month, the Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Investigator arrested…
by ROGER CROOK – NOW that the long-awaited meeting between Anthony Albanese and President Donald Trump didn’t turn out to be a three-ring circus; let’s hope Labor starts to address the major challenges facing Australia. This might be wishful thinking, given the…
by ROGER CROOK – WHY Iran was allowed by America, the UK and other NATO countries to develop the technology and the ability to construct a nuclear warhead will be debated for many years. The mad men running Iran had promised to…
by ROGER CROOK – OVER the past 40 or 50 years successive Australian governments have abandoned defence planning and have been lured away from national security and self-sufficiency. Free trade agreements on trinkets, beads and bargains made by others, including the Middle…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIANS are tired after two slow years of pandemic recovery and a rapid escalation in rents, mortgages, the cost of food, diesel, petrol, electricity and gas. Cost of living, for many, has become an extraordinary challenge and seemingly…
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 KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by DAVID FLINT – THE saying “The only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history” may be dismissed as a sweeping generalisation. But as the formidable general Sir John Glubb – Glubb Pashah – remarked, it is…
