Aux bien pensants
After the dry comes the wet ‘Remember, after the big dry comes the big wet,’ presciently warned salt-of-the-earth South Australian…
Shorten trumped
Western leaders who believe in state sovereignty and secure borders and who have the strength and courage to fight for…
An endless coup
Do those campaigning against our national day really think that Australia, as we know it, would be here without the…
Raise a glass to the British
Despite years of federal civics education courses, a survey taken some years ago revealed that the vast majority of school…
Aux bien pensants
The New York Times reports the truly shocking news that Australia punches below its weight. The NYT’s source, Lowy Institute…
Leadership beyond politics, rarely found in republics
The oldest office in the land has just changed hands, with barely a ripple on the surface. Acting on the…
Of the people
This must be the first occasion when a book on politics, written in Australia, has been listed among the year’s…
Meet Paris in a canter
The choice for Australia at the general election is between a slow or an accelerated decline. Managed decline is à…
Turnbullian nightmare
Don’t go into the Christmas holidays and 2019 thinking the nightmare is over. True, Malcolm Turnbull is no more, at…
Show me the man…
‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,’ secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria assured the equally loathsome mass-murderer…
Quit Paris, halve migration
The Victorian election demonstrates a desperate need for powerful leadership based on principle, something last seen in the 2013 Abbott…
Aux bien pensants
Next year in Jerusalem Scott Morrison has no alternative now but to move the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to…
Prince Harry, G-G?
Leadership beyond politics, a quality well demonstrated by Prince Harry, is one of the greatest virtues of our constitutional system.…
Winning huge with The Donald
It is likely President Trump will record an unprecedented success in the midterm elections. Mid-term elections invariably go against the…
Gender workers of the world, unite!
‘Surely you mean sex,’ I told the Vice-Chancellor and the other Deans. It was 30 years ago and I had…
Pandering to the Wentworthies
Contrary to reports, Wentworth has not been a blue ribbon Liberal seat since the 1980s. And the seat is so…
Boot Brisbane, kick Canberra
‘I am delighted to be speaking in Cairns, capital of the new State of North Queensland,’ I told the new…
Sharma shafts Shorten
Australia will soon face what is arguably one of the most important elections in its history, with Wentworth a crucial…
Castration of the male?
Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…
For real Scomentum, drain the billabong
Our political class are being seen more and more as arrogant and as out of touch as the French aristocracy…
Aux bien pensants
You can’t walk on both sides of the street, PM If the Coalition were to go to the general election…
Sovereignty is sacred
Increasingly, many if not most Australian, British, American and other Western politicians have been imposing policies the people would never…
King should succeed the republican in Wentworth
Are the powerbrokers and lobbyists who run the NSW Liberal Party like the Bourbons? Have they learned nothing, and forgotten…
Reincarnation of the elites
Compliant always with John O’Sullivan’s First Law that all organisations not actively leaning right will, over time, become left-wing, The…
Turnbull’s litany of failures
Turnbull must go. With Abbott, and only Abbott, the Coalition will win in a landslide and save the nation from…
