by PAUL COLLITS – ANYONE with a good memory and an eye to American politics will recall, with ease, the personnel chaos that was the Trump 1.0 administration. Some of the appointments to key posts were embarrassments, the internecine wars were the…
by PAUL COLLITS – A PHRASE that you probably will never come across in the history books on American politics is “he was a consequential vice president”. Obviously, no one would ever include “she” in such a statement. There has only ever…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE’S humbug afoot and a lot of nonsense being talked about the 10 per cent tariff US President Donald Trump has placed on Australian exports to America. The consternation being expressed over the effect this may have on…
by ROGER CROOK – US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has decided that many nations who trade with his country, do not trade fairly; he uses his definition of fairness. This statement and the threats of 25 per cent tariffs on Australian steel and…
by FRED PAWLE – OF ALL Australia’s vulnerabilities at the moment, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s woefully inadequate understanding of high-stakes gambling is the most dangerous. As a gambler, PM Albanese is more like the bloke who hits the pokies after a couple…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA needs a leader that can rattle the cage of complacency in which Australia is trapped. One who can shout “wake up! wake up Australia”. Wake up before you become the “white trash” of Asia, which was forecast…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great questions of international relations and of history is what “causes” war. Many tomes have been written about both individual wars and about war in general. One is by our own Geoffrey Blainey. The literature…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA is doomed to another period of tip-toe, pale conservatism in the event of a change of government. Paul Kelly of The Australian newspaper penned a long-winded exposition this week on the state of Australian politics as the…
by PAUL COLLITS – AFTER two assassination attempts many people regarded Donald Trump’s arrival again at the Big House as a miracle. It was seen as God’s intent to save America – and perhaps the world – from the ravages of post-Christian,…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE has never been a President-elect like this one. Donald J Trump is re-writing the rules of the weird two-month transition period between an election and the inauguration. Americans have never seen anything like this. Many are claiming,…
