by DAVID FLINT – THERE are two leading trends in Australian politics which are firming against Labor – and which, I suspect, will hold through to the next election. The first is one I arrived at before seeing Peta Credlin’s recent eloquent…
by ROGER CROOK – OF COURSE he isn’t. Andrew Hastie has shown by example that he deserves our respect for his military service. Is he politically thin skinned? That’s another story. You decide. There was a time when I thought that Andrew…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THERE has been a media pile-on against Victoria’s One Nation Leader Warren Pickering after he fronted up and admitted to a wayward past. But, he emphasised, he had turned his life around and – 20 plus years later…
by ROGER CROOK – BEHIND the headlines that make us sit up and take notice – like the trillion-dollar national debt or Albanese’s grubby melon joke – there are some unpleasant truths for this nation to absorb. The first truth is that…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIANS are starting to see their country as it really is and remembering how great it once was. Suddenly there is change in the air. It’s as if there is an awakening, the mist is clearing. People now…
by DAVID FLINT – THE media is still obsessed with Barnaby Joyce’s stern and immediately obeyed command to his farm dog. Meanwhile, journalists ignored the fact that South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas’s intervention at the recent ALP national conference was a glaring…
by PAUL COLLITS – PM ANTHONY Albanese is scared. The Australian establishment’s recent and escalating attacks on Pauline Hanson have become attacks on us. In 1927, the French critic and philosopher, Julien Benda, penned a book called La Trahison des Clercs, mostly…
by ROGER CROOK – ONE Nation’s enduring dominance in opinion polls shouldn’t have surprised anyone watching the mood of the Australian electorate – but it has. The Party’s response to PM Anthony Albanese’s call to donate $27 to fight One Nation has…
by DAVID FLINT – IF AN election were held now, an opinion poll in The Australian Financial Review concludes that One Nation could win fifty-nine seats. Labor would clutch on to power with a margin of just one seat. If, after the…
by PAUL COLLITS – A GOOD friend, whose views are pretty close to my own, is used to being ignored in the workplace. He’s used to colleagues steering clear of political discussions – and certainly steering clear of engaging with him. One…
