Ross Eastgate

Attempting to cancel Zulu exposes the Left’s idiocy

13 March 2023 5:30 am

You would be hard pressed to find an Australian soldier who has served since the reactivation of National Service in…

Jim Molan: remembering the early years

20 January 2023 6:00 am

Each of us is allotted at birth three score years and ten to make our mark on the world. Some…

On the (dystopian) beach

6 November 2022 7:00 am

Nevil Shute’s classic apocalyptic 1957 novel about the end of the world, On the Beach, was set, as such horror…

ABC: winning hearts and minds...?

7 October 2022 12:00 pm

Imagine a large multinational commercial enterprise with a readily identifiable identity inserting subliminal messages into its advertising campaigns. To be…

A little fun while Trooping the Colour

10 September 2022 12:11 pm

For every ADF recruit, there was a precise moment when they ceased to be a civilian and became a member…

Sir David Smith's final bow

19 August 2022 11:00 am

With the impeccable timing only senior vice-regal staff truly understand, former official secretary to various Australian Governors-General, Sir David Smith,…

Andrews doesn't know when to leave

31 July 2022 7:00 am

Political aspirations can often be read by having a look at whose bust dominates a politician’s personal office space. Winston…

Adding race to politics is not a good idea

13 July 2022 1:16 pm

It seems it is not only Indigenous Australians, but also some resident Kiwis, that may be given an extra voice…

From Istanbul, with confusion

20 June 2022 1:00 pm

Few cities stir the adventurer’s soul as Istanbul – that vast, sprawling mass straddling Europe and Asia which acts as…

Facebook: hate speech or idiom?

13 June 2022 2:00 pm

In the annals of political skulduggery, there have been fewer brutal acts than the assassination of Julius Caesar on the…

Albanese snubs CHOGM summit

11 June 2022 4:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony ‘My Government’ Albanese’s enthusiasm to strut the world diplomatic stage has already begun waning.  He’s announced that…

A South Australian perspective

27 March 2022 12:00 pm

Inserted appropriately between Australia’s buttock states – Western Australia and Victoria – lies that curious social phenomenon of South Australia.…

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

17 March 2022 2:00 pm

When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one… On October 25,…

Where are the strategists and tacticians?

12 March 2022 11:00 am

There’s nothing like the whiff of distant grapeshot to energise Australia’s plethora of armchair military strategists. Military professionals, on the…

People in glass houses...

4 January 2022 4:00 pm

Every family has one, the curmudgeonly old relative who broods annoyingly in the background – except for special family occasions…

Ambassador Kennedy – an alternate view

24 December 2021 4:00 am

William Shakespeare captured literature’s most famous feud – the Capulets vs the Montagues – with the immortal line, ‘What’s in…

Covid-free and painfully satirical

12 December 2021 2:00 pm

In 1951, British futurist Arthur C Clarke wrote a short story envisaging a journey into space which evolved into the…

Last drinks for the Canberra bubble

5 December 2021 4:00 am

It’s ironic that a federal minister should again promote alcoholic abstinence as a cure for whatever allegedly ails (or should…

Please accept my resignation from the Church with immediate effect

18 November 2021 5:30 pm

Dear Sir/Madam/Whomever it may concern, I write as, until now, a life-long communicant of the Church of England, or whatever…

Don’t forget Labor’s still loathsome

4 November 2021 12:54 pm

Prussian soldier strategist Carl von Clausewitz is best remembered for his statement, “War is the continuation of political intercourse with…

I don’t like Pauline Hanson – but don’t like her being censored

3 October 2021 12:34 pm

I hold no brief for P Hanson who is a vacuous, shallow opportunist. Neither do I know Jessica Rowe who,…

Time for ADF chief Angus Campbell to go before he’s pushed

27 September 2021 12:02 pm

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has never shirked from hard decisions, and for the first time in some years a minister…

Finally, some sense on subs

16 September 2021 1:09 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has long signalled he was open to ending a ban on nuclear power in Australia. He…

ANZUS, Afghanistan – and where’s Billy Hughes or John Monash when you need them?

1 September 2021 1:15 pm

The last Australians to stand up to bullying by the United States were World War I General John Monash and…

Can we get our money back on ADF chief Angus Campbell?

30 August 2021 11:31 am

In signals intelligence the term “look through” describes the tactic of penetrating deliberate noise and interference to reveal the real…