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,…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE just witnessed one of the funniest things I have seen this year. It features US podcaster Joe Rogan, so there is a multiple expletive alert. Rogan thinks Joe Biden voted for Donald Trump. He even “guarantees”…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS an unusual week when I have scarcely noticed a US presidential election. That’s what happens when one is close to losing a child, for the second time in a year. No one expected the progressive Democrats…
by REX WIDERSTROM – DONALD Trump’s promise to slap tariffs as high as 60 per cent on Chinese goods, and up to 20 per cent on all other imports, will not be as dire for Australia as predicted. Reserve Bank Governor Michelle…
by MIKE COOK – WITH the US election results just hours away, people on both sides are on edge but things are looking very good for Donald Trump. This is causing widespread panic in Hollywood, one of the most reliably liberal parts…
