by DAVID FLINT – THE lights went down in Sydney’s Capitol Theatre for Dame Edna Everage’s Farewell Australian Tour, several years ago. “We begin the performance tonight with Dame Edna Everage,” a solemn voice announced, “by honouring the traditional owners of this…
by PAUL COLLITS – TWO of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionary strategists were Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist, and Saul Alinsky, the American author of Rules for Radicals. Between them, they wrote the game plan for upending Western civilization by upending the…
by PAUL COLLITS – I USED to engage often with the climate change debate. I once even shared a stage with venerable climate warriors Ian Plimer, the late Bob Carter, and Alan Moran, then of the Institute of Public Affairs. I was…
MORE than two-thirds of Liberal MPs suspected of voting Prime Minister Tony Abbott out of office in 2015 are no longer members of parliament. In a purge that has continued since September 2015, when Malcolm Turnbull’s 54 “bedwetters” knifed a first term…
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…
IS THE premise on which alleged climate change science is based true? The most prevalent problem is that few in public life are brave enough to ask this fundamental question, and voters are entitled to an answer, given that the known drop…
THERE are two supreme ironies in play in the COVID Commonwealth of Australia, where most of the population is housebound as lockdown mania creeps from cities to back blocks as (typically) a single, wayward spreader visits a region. We also have a…
THE most effective way to deal with “disgraced” former prime minister Malcom Turnbull is not to expel him, according to Liberal Vice-President Teena McQueen. Ms McQueen was responding to recent motions drafted by several Liberal Party branches to expel the embittered former PM.
THE Coalition can be grateful to would-be wrecker Malcolm Turnbull for a handsome Hunter by-election win in the given circumstance. According to those on the ground, many voters who professed loathing for him determined to stick with the NSW government despite all its current travails.
MALCOLM Turnbull’s all-in support for radical environmentalist Kirsty O’Connell in yesterday’s Upper Hunter by-election has helped deliver victory for the NSW Coalition government. Prior to the former prime minister throwing his cash and support behind the green independent, Premier Gladys Berejiklian had publicly stated the Coalition would most likely lose the seat – tipping her into minority government.
