by DAVID FLINT – IT IS surely reasonable to expect that, after the trial of Cardinal Pell and the arrest of Alan Jones, the authorities would have learned a lesson. As the US Supreme Court noted in Berger v. United States (1935),…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE only people who enjoy real free speech in Australia are the retired and those who don’t depend on government for their income. If you are an employee, forget it. No free speech for you. The process is familiar….
by PAUL COLLITS – WE ALL realise, or at least an increasing number of us are realising now, that the world and our individual governments are run by creeps. Putting in a new lot of creeps quickly reinforces our perceptions. Think Albanese…
AUSTRALIA’S farming families are being steamrolled by governments to meet the net-zero demands of inner-city elites and the political class. “There has never been a more important time to hear their stories,” according to Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public…
by SCOTT JOHNSON – HISTORICALLY, political participation in Australia by the common folk was somewhat “verboten”. The laid-back “No worries, mate – she’ll be right” attitude of the Aussie larrikin at a barbie skulling beers is a caricature but was also normalised…
by FRED PAWLE – WHILE the West wallows in disenchantment, Asians embrace our technology and consumerism with conspicuous glee. When Australians started travelling overseas en masse in the 1980s, returning home was an essential and reassuring part of the experience. Australians are…
by FRED PAWLE – THE orgy of nostalgia for the glory days of COVID – five years ago this month – confirms that most journalists and their “expert” friends still don’t understand life outside their own bubble. Whenever the mainstream media marks…
by VIV FORBES – A SPIRIT of madness exists in today’s Labor-led bureaucracy – the bureaucratic instinct is to kill every animal in any threatened herd to ensure all sick ones die. There’s a fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control…
by PAUL COLLITS – A LONG time ago, there was a cartoon, probably done by Alan Moir, of the dour looking 1980s NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth that showed his various faces. Barrie excited, Barrie sad, Barrie angry, Barrie determined, and so on….
by FRED PAWLE – DESPITE the bleakness of our current outlook, it’s crucial to remember that the best way to defeat tyrants is to not take them too seriously. For all his literary brilliance, George Orwell wasn’t great at irony. His use…
