by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE Greens have unveiled a major election policy promising free lunches to every student in Australia’s public school system. The initiative is estimated to cost $11.6b over the four-year forward estimates by the Parliamentary Budget Office. Liberal…
by ROGER CROOK – THIS Federal Election play has been inflicted on us many times before – the only thing that changes are the players. The plot always remains the same. The build-up to electing the next Australian government is a tragedy;…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA is doomed to another period of tip-toe, pale conservatism in the event of a change of government. Paul Kelly of The Australian newspaper penned a long-winded exposition this week on the state of Australian politics as the…
by ROGER CROOK – THE last time I saw Labor luminary Dr Jim Cairns was in the 1980s on a very cold Saturday morning in a market at St Andrews, up in the hills outside Melbourne. He sat behind an old card…
by ROGER CROOK – IN LIFE, cream rises to the top – the clever people do the jobs which clever people do, while the rest of us get on, as best we can, with whatever our calling happens to be. Fresh milk…
by ROGER CROOK – BEN Chifley was no ordinary Prime Minister; he had come through the Labor ranks the hard way. A train driver by profession and driven (no pun intended), like his predecessor John Curtin, he had experienced a world war,…
by PAUL COLLITS – HISTORY repeats, first as tragedy then as farce, as Anthony Albanese’s guiding mentor Karl Marx once stated. I couldn’t help but notice one of Freebie Albanese’s more recent indiscretions. With a political tin ear that is hard to…
by DAVID FLINT – NOT only are we living under Australia’s most incompetent, wasteful and retrograde federal government, but it’s now irretrievably tainted. The Albanese Government is indisputably the first federal government tainted by a greater scandal than the Scullin Labor government’s…
by PAUL COLLITS – A SINISTER “managed retreat” scheme could soon force Australians from their homes, as local government and woke insurance corporations join forces. Shocking evidence has emerged of how climate change modelling is to be used to render homes “uninsurable”. …
by DAVID FLINT – IS IT a coincidence that Australia and the United States are living under the most incompetent and destructive governments that either nation has ever known? In both countries, political Parties have ensured that the machinery designed to provide…
