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 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…
by DAVID FLINT – THE political establishment is in a state of shock. When Sky News Australia took the unprecedented step of calling the Farrer by-election for One Nation at an extraordinarily early hour, it wasn’t just calling a seat; it was…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – SINCE first being established in 1997 by Pauline Hanson, One Nation has been described as a fringe Party with little, if any, political clout. This is no longer the case. According to a January 2026 Newspoll commissioned by…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH NSW’s share of the Goods & Services Tax falling to 82 cents in the dollar, Premier Chris Minns is understandably complaining. Australia is replete with similar problems created over the years by cabals of centralist politicians and…
by PAUL COLLITS – BEFORE the recent South Australian election, John Howard opined that the former Liberal Senator and former Australian Conservatives leader, Cory Bernardi, “wouldn’t trouble the scorers” in that election. Howard is well known to be a cricket tragic, hence…
by PAUL COLLITS – NO EXPRESSION is surer in Australian politics than “once a Nat…”. The unexpected departure of Nationals Leader David Littleproud this month brought to the crease the much-anticipated Matt Canavan. The closer you get to having the power to…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIES, damned lies and statistics? So the cliché goes, suggesting that you can twist numbers in every which way to make an argument. It’s true that numbers can be tortured to within an inch of their lives. See…
by ROGER CROOK – THE past two weeks have made me wonder just what bench mark the average punter uses when the time comes to vote in a general election. How much do we know about the people on the ballot, or…
