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…
by FRED PAWLE – THE Albanese Government has given up pretending that parliament bears any influence on its policies. Crucial decisions are being made even before MPs have had a chance to debate them. Anthony Albanese’s contempt for parliament goes beyond treating…
by FRED PAWLE – POLITICIANS and legacy-media proprietors have good reasons to support restrictions on social media, which have nothing to do with children’s safety. Orwell’s dictum that “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them” was spectacularly superseded not…
by PAUL COLLITS – ALL this looks and feels very familiar. Déjà vu in caps. By now, everyone will know that Alan Jones, former school teacher, Wallabies coach, Malcolm Fraser speechwriter, 2GB radio star, one-time Sky News presenter (until Murdoch’s people shafted…
by MONICA O’SHEA – AUSTRALIA’S eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has confirmed her agency will enforce the Parliament’s impending ban on under 16s accessing social media. Social media corporations could face fines of $49.5m for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent…
by FRED PAWLE – THERE are many lessons the Australian government could have taken from the US presidential election. Don’t be authoritarian, don’t lie to the people, don’t expect a lame incumbent to win and don’t take an abysmal record in office…
