Pardoning the Breaker is unpardonable
There is an awful lot of ignorance about the English-born mercenary Henry Harbord Morant. Morant was executed for murder in…
Not another lobbyist
Recently Jim Molan has been best known as Footy Show host Erin Molan’s dad, but that may be about to…
Barnaby, the beat-up — and the blunder
Since when have Australian-born citizens with one foreign-born parent but permanently resident here been automatically obligated to the laws of…
What’s happening with the RSL?
This week’s victory for newly elected NSW RSL president James Brown disproved the enduring adage that old age and cunning…
The joy of swearing
Proficiency in another language is always helpful, particularly when a discrete profanity is required. In a life not always well…
A bitter pils to swallow
The Courier Mail reported Monday “One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is set to embark on another venture, putting her name…
Hey guys, check out David Morrison’s latest
He’s become the gift which keeps giving, though, like a spinster aunt’s annual Christmas socks and hankies, it’s a gift…
Edward Gough Trump
For many it was if the prophesied Messiah had finally arrived while others feared the anti-Christ had descended upon the…
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…
