Category: Australian Politics

AUSTRALIANS would once proudly boast theirs was a nation under the rule of law. Sadly, we now live under the rule of the law-breakers.  Imprisoned, not allowed to leave the country, invited to rat on neighbours, subject to arbitrary punishment, …

IT IS increasingly difficult to distinguish between Coalition and Labor governments.  They are both populated (with exceptions) from an homogenous political class; as in any oligopolistic market where competition is never about price, their policies differ only at the cosmetic …

AUSTRALIA was some years ago sold out by those whom the people trusted, the politicians and the elites, to Beijing’s genocidal thugs.  No longer, as Shakespeare might have said, “this other Eden, demi-paradise”, a land of gradually advancing  prosperity, based …

CAN you identify one major problem facing Australia, which, if it were not created by the politicians, has not been made significantly worse by them?  This is a question I sometimes ask, especially when invited to speak on the pressing …

THE Wuhan virus could never be sufficient reason to justify the evasion of much of the separation of powers and of checks and balances that make up the very basis, the signature, of Anglo-American constitutionalism.  It is an outrage that …