by DAVID FLINT – MULTICULTURALISM was foisted on Australia by the notorious Whitlam Labor government minister – and alleged Mafia associate – Al Grassby. The crucial question, as it was then, is whether Australia’s essential values are multicultural. Australia’s foundational and present-day…
by ROGER CROOK – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese recently spent six days in China with a plane load of zillionaires from the Australian iron ore industry. Apart from having his metaphorical tummy tickled by his mentor Xi Jinping, Secretary General of the…
by ROGER CROOK – AS A nation we have been in economic decline for some time. It started with Rudd, Gillard, Rudd; there were plans for respite and recovery from Abbott, then his “mates” kicked him out and the decline of Australia…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE Albanese Government’s adoption of key recommendations from the Varghese Review, including the defunding of a prominent Australian think tank known for its critical stance towards Beijing, has sparked controversy. The Varghese Review is named after Peter…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ISRAEL’S recent targeted attacks on Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies have been praised or condemned depending on political perspectives. But one factor seems to have universal acceptance by the Right and the woke Left. …
by DAVID FLINT – THE reaction to this column’s 2020 conclusion that COVID had escaped from a Wuhan laboratory ranged from ridicule to denunciation as a “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation and disinformation”. These terms are code for suppressing divergence from the elites’…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE is a growing realisation in the West that the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis is not the only hostile power. There is what could well be an even greater danger, one from within. Following the failure of the Voice –…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that in the tradition expressed in the question famously asked by the Roman magistrate, Lucius Cassius, “Cui bono?” (who benefits from this?) we should “follow the money”. The answers would explain the…
by DAVID FLINT – SINCE Whitlam, Nixon, Clinton – and now Anthony Albanese, Western politicians have treated China’s communist dictatorship as if it were just another normal, law-abiding government. They have also treated communist leaders, including mass-murderer Mao, with respect and at…
