National suicide note
This election is the most important since 2007 when the best prime minister since Menzies, John Howard, was so unwisely…
Shorten blundering to defeat?
The electorate shows little sign of being interested in politicians offering bribes, wearing caps, eating, playing with children, horsing around…
How can Shorten still be in the lead?
How is it that Labor, no longer the party of the worker but the voice of inner-city elites and millionaire…
Smoking out the neo-coms
Among the many considerable services Tony Abbott has rendered Australia, one was to persuade the late Paul Ramsay to endow…
We mourn Notre Dame with France as we are closer than you think
In our deep sadness about the terrible fire in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, it is apparent how…
Campaign notes
Shorten’s bottom line Could Bill Shorten‘s ‘Hewson moment’ be a similar turning point in the Coalition’s election campaign? Such a…
Aux bien pensants
No wonder so many politicians live in mortal terror of being interviewed by Alan Jones. No one prepares more thoroughly,…
Media freedom long overdue
‘The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing…
Newspeak, translated
‘There’s not a good enough reason for Adelaide to be there,’ quipped ALP grandee Graham Richardson on Sky TV, inadvertently…
PM in the Last Chance Saloon
Australia, we’re told, will soon be under a government of thieves and constitutional vandals, pledged to change laws from the…
Footballers have rights, too
There’s a good chance that because of the charge against Jack de Belin, the right to the presumption of innocence…
No borders, no country
If we don’t have borders, we don’t have a country’. Not many Western leaders would join Donald Trump in declaring…
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.…
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