Attempting to cancel Zulu exposes the Left’s idiocy
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
Each of us is allotted at birth three score years and ten to make our mark on the world. Some…
On the (dystopian) beach
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…?
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
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
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
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
It seems it is not only Indigenous Australians, but also some resident Kiwis, that may be given an extra voice…
From Istanbul, with confusion
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?
In the annals of political skulduggery, there have been fewer brutal acts than the assassination of Julius Caesar on the…
Albanese snubs CHOGM summit
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
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
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?
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…
Every family has one, the curmudgeonly old relative who broods annoyingly in the background – except for special family occasions…
Ambassador Kennedy – an alternate view
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
In signals intelligence the term “look through” describes the tactic of penetrating deliberate noise and interference to reveal the real…
