by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIA has lost one of its most extraordinary and most artistic craftsmen. Jim Frecklington, royal coachmaker, horseman, artist and patriot, has passed away at the age of 76. There can have been few Australians of modern times who…
by ROWEN DEAN – IT IS with deep sadness and shock that I learned of the passing away of Teena McQueen, former Federal Vice-President of the Liberal Party. Teena recently moved to One Nation. She was an incredibly dear friend and a…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE last of Australia’s great public servants died last week. John Stone passed away, aged 96. He was the mandarin’s mandarin in an age, now long gone, when public servants were not contract-restricted and were largely invisible to…
by PAUL COLLITS – MY PRECIOUS daughter has passed away, after a year of serious illnesses and intensive care. Bridget Louise Collits (1982-2025), like JFK (as per Robert Dallek, one of his biographers), led an “unfinished life”. The life sentence imprisonment of…
by SEAN BURKE – GARRY Burke was one of Australia’s great journalists. Politicom was privileged to have had such a talented and passionate writer – indeed, he was an Oxford scholar. Garry was a deliberative writer, an acclaimed daily newspaper editor, a…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT ISN’T just English batsmen scoring centuries these days. The other week, the redoubtable Heinz Alfred (aka Henry) Kissinger turned one hundred. Kissinger is known for many things. His escape from Nazi Germany. His prolific scholarship (his latest…
by PAUL COLLITS – A CONSERVATIVE giant passed in January 2023. I have few bookshelves where just about every book is written by one author. One is the late Sir Roger Scruton. Another is Joseph Ratzinger. A third is WF Buckley Jr….
by SEAN BURKE – JIM Molan was never one to back down from a battle. His fighting spirit and self-awareness wouldn’t allow it. He lived his life fighting. Wars, political Party factions, elections and, eventually, personal illness. Molan lived a full life…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
