by FRED PAWLE – CURIOSITY is essential for personal and national survival. Sadly, few Australians have it these days. There are many ways in which to measure Australia’s national decline. GDP per head, unemployment, inflation, productivity, housing availability and national debt, among…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THE Swans fiasco had it all. Here was feminism’s prized foe — brash young footballers hoovering up millions for kicking a ball — caught in the mother of all own goals. An early morning hotel frolic, paid strippers,…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE City of Sydney isn’t mine anymore – it is a strange and foreign place. When you see the signs everywhere on the streets, “welcome to Gadigal country”, you feel white. When you see rainbow banners everywhere, you…
by FRED PAWLE – ABC Managing Director Hugh Marks is seeking applicants for the job of ABC News Director. My cat Sophie put her paw up and I have obliged her new-found lurch to the Left with the following application… I speak,…
by FRED PAWLE – WE IN the Enlightened West can no longer scoff at the destructive delusions of authoritarian societies. In some ways, we are now worse. Those living in liberal democracies have been spared the excruciating dullness and dysfunction that less…
by PAUL COLLITS – OBSERVERS of political developments in both Britain and Australia will, right about now, see much overlap. One area of apparent difference is the more clearly articulated Christian focus of the British insurgency movement. But first, some context. We…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – SINCE first being established in 1997 by Pauline Hanson, One Nation has been described as a fringe Party with little, if any, political clout. This is no longer the case. According to a January 2026 Newspoll commissioned by…
by PAUL COLLITS – MY FIRST encounter with the NSW North Coast town of Lismore was in 1993, from memory. I landed at Lismore Regional Airport in a small, chartered plane full of politicians, following the hairiest flight of my life. Shortly…
by PAUL COLLITS – PROFESSOR Brett Sutton is a director at the CSIRO, Australia’s formerly, well respected scientific and industrial research organisation. He has an Order of Australia. He was once Victorian of the Year. He proudly displays his pronouns as “he,…
by RALPH BABET – AUSTRALIA’S mainstream media is starting to collapse, and not a moment too soon. With the long overdue cancellation of ABC’s Q+A and Channel 10’s The Project, the public is sending a clear and resounding message: enough with the…
