by PAUL COLLITS – NEW Zealand has a new government, at last. Jacinda Ardern is merely a grisly memory now – as is her successor, Chris “the vaccines weren’t forced on anyone” Hipkins. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day…
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 – WHEN Tony Abbott created a dame – sadly, the execrable Quentin Bryce – he got fired. When the former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern was made one, those who loathe Abbott were in raptures. Funny old world. Ardern’s rewards…
by SEAN BURKE – NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns’ carefully curated image of “nice and relatable” has been dealt a heavy blow by his own hand. The Labor premier-in-waiting last week exposed himself as little more than an “identity” politician after he…
by PAUL COLLITS – THOSE in any doubt about how the pro-Ardern media would deal with her retirement from politics and international stardom have now been given the heads-up. She is being trolled by death-threatening rightwing nut jobs! She will need permanent…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the many joys of having lived for some years in New Zealand (sorry, Aotearoa) is the two degrees of separation and the informal access this provides to well-known people. You can find yourself deep in extended…
ACCORDING to Bob Carr, they are simpletons. To Sir (!) Tony Blair, they are selfish idiots. To the Archbishop of Canterbury (and, no doubt, the Pope), they are immoral. To Justin Trudeau, they are misogynist racists. Emmanual Macron wants to “p#ss them…
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. …
SCOTT Morrison has cancelled the Defence Force’s order for conventional submarines moving instead to purchase a nuclear fleet. Incurring an eye-watering $3.5b cost to break the $90b French contract signed by former PM Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister Morrison said the cost was…
NEW Zealand Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern continues to tantrum over Australia’s deportation of her criminal countrymen. Her latest fuss comes after Australia booted out a New Zealand born ex-pat who travelled to Syria to support terrorist group ISIS.
