by PAUL COLLITS – ONE needs to re-assess the terrorist attacks on New York’s iconic Twin Towers and the Pentagon in the light of two subsequent events. The first is the almost never-ending “war on terror”, the unseemly and ultimately unsuccessful prosecution…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE other day, I received a letter from the New Zealand Electoral Commission informing me of my voting rights in relation to the forthcoming Kiwi election. They have not registered that I left the Shaky Isles in 2018…
by PAUL COLLITS – ARE we witnessing the death of democracy? Actually, the question should, rather, be framed as, have we already seen the death of democracy? The editor of the UK’s Sunday Telegraph, Allister Heath, writes of contemporary Britain: “Britain’s deranged…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE next major war, like the last one, will be fought by the State against its people. There will be new weapons, like Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs, as well as (inevitably) more poisonous vaccines. …
by PAUL COLLITS – FOLLOWING the deserved public humiliation of Gladys Berejiklian, all sorts of people whose judgement is normally sound have come out swinging against the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. I would have thought we were in Blind Freddie territory…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is danger in writing an article on COVID’s passing parade – you just know there will be more “pandemic” gauleiters tip-toeing from the wreckage almost before you hit “save”. And so it has transpired … two in…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS axiomatic in political and ideological warfare that when they all are coming after you with spittle-flecked invective, it means they fear you. It means you have something to offer which they do not want others to…
by PAUL COLLITS – SOME years back, there was an unusual film. There was no dialogue. In a three-hour movie. It was called Into Great Silence, a portrayal of the monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps. A beautiful…
by PAUL COLLITS – ON THE twentieth anniversary of America’s neocon invasion of Iraq, I wonder if anyone has asked John Howard what he thinks of all of that now. Famously, Howard didn’t wish Australia to be a “70 or 80 per…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – THERE is no doubt baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are living in a very different world compared to what they experienced. Australian society, as with others in the West, has undergone a radical change that makes…
