by PAUL COLLITS – THE last of Australia’s great public servants died last week. John Stone passed away, aged 96. He was the mandarin’s mandarin in an age, now long gone, when public servants were not contract-restricted and were largely invisible to…
by PAUL COLLITS – MY PRECIOUS daughter has passed away, after a year of serious illnesses and intensive care. Bridget Louise Collits (1982-2025), like JFK (as per Robert Dallek, one of his biographers), led an “unfinished life”. The life sentence imprisonment of…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE was a time when the ABC was, indeed, ours. That was the era of James Dibble reading the seven o’clock news. It was the time of Bill Peach’s crack team of investigative, irreverent young journalists, like the…
by SEAN BURKE – GARRY Burke was one of Australia’s great journalists. Politicom was privileged to have had such a talented and passionate writer – indeed, he was an Oxford scholar. Garry was a deliberative writer, an acclaimed daily newspaper editor, a…
by PAUL COLLITS – A CONSERVATIVE giant passed in January 2023. I have few bookshelves where just about every book is written by one author. One is the late Sir Roger Scruton. Another is Joseph Ratzinger. A third is WF Buckley Jr….
by DAVID FLINT – HOW did George Cardinal Pell, Prince of the Church, become a persecuted political prisoner, Australia’s Cardinal Mindszenty? When the internationally esteemed Cardinal is finally laid to rest in Sydney’s great Basilica, it will be in the crypt already…
by SEAN BURKE – JIM Molan was never one to back down from a battle. His fighting spirit and self-awareness wouldn’t allow it. He lived his life fighting. Wars, political Party factions, elections and, eventually, personal illness. Molan lived a full life…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
