An inconvenient record
I’ll tell you a tale and it won’t take me long, all climate alarmists are bastards. Not only do they…
Wish him naught as we wave him goodbye
David Morrison crawled away from his Australian of the Year role as he performed it, self-aggrandising, unapologetic and intellectually irrelevant.…
Fighting fading curtains in the Sunshine State
It’s a state divided, sibling against sibling, family against family, community against community, city against country. It’s not America under…
Xenophon: the stuntman turns saboteur
Submariners fear nothing more than an unexpected explosion when submerged, particularly when it is an own goal. Such was the…
The critics trumped
Five weeks after Donald Trump’s election it’s time to stop the endless finger-pointing and hand-wringing about missing the biggest story…
Jessie
Jessie Margaret Noble, formerly Dingle, died in Bundaberg last week, November 29, 2016 to be exact. She was 97. Who,…
Pauline and Julian: the (bloody) odd couple
As Australia’s political year fizzles to an ignominious end, the political oddity which is One Nation continues as the gift…
Military injustice
Was it William Shakespeare who wrote, “Put a lawyer into uniform but it cannot a soldier make”? Perhaps not, but…
One Nation, many leaders, few (cogent) ideas
Of all the political imperatives missing in Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, loyalty, unity and personality rate among the highest.…
Trump and the media fail
As Rowan Atkinson playing the Devil said welcoming atheists to hell, “You must be feeling a right bunch of nitwits!”…
Death in Dili
This week marks several significant anniversaries in the life of our youngish nation. November 11 resonates because it was the…
The incendiary Greens
Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431 for her defence of Orleans during the Franco-English…
Malcolm’s example inspires military mutiny
Australian military-political intrigue claimed its first victim on January 26, 1808 when the NSW Rum Corps arrested Governor William Bligh.…
SJW Morrison just walks past the guys
General Douglas MacArthur once opined “old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” One general who has not heeded this…