It's Liberal Ingrates time again in the lead-up to the federal election. On this occasion, Matt Kean stars. The high-profile Kean is a former treasurer and energy and environment minister in the NSW Liberal-Nationals Coalition government. Kean was the member for the relatively safe NSW seat of Hornsby from 2011 to 2024. The words of [...]
Believe it or not, there was some good news from the final sitting week of parliament before the May 2025 election. The Coalition supported changes to the Albanese government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment bill in the House of Representatives and the Senate that will allow the salmon industry to continue farming at Macquarie [...]
The Sydney Writers' Festival (artistic director Ann Mossop), which runs from May 19 to May 27, is shaping up to be yet another taxpayer/ratepayer-funded leftist stack. As was the Adelaide Writers Week (director Louise Adler), held during the first week of March. As would be expected, there are some talented authors on the platform on [...]
Former Liberal Party prime minister Malcolm Turnbull may not acknowledge it but he shares certain personality characteristics with US Republican Party President Donald J. Trump. Both entered public life relatively late in life after a successful but controversial background in business. And both are possessed of an over-the-top self-belief. What's more, neither seems to have [...]
Just when it seemed that President Donald J. Trump had embraced the "give peace a chance" paean of the 1960s left, the Prime Minister of Poland spoke an inconvenient truth. Last weekend, Donald Tusk said this: "The paradox is that 500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians." [...]
It's a familiar case of taxpayer-funded double standards. But first some background. In February, a group of artists published a letter written to the chief executive, Adrian Collette, and the board of Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council). CA has a staff of 150 and in the past financial year received $289m from the federal [...]
It is said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, second as farce. The quote is attributed to Karl Marx. Certainly there was tragedy and farce aplenty when Australians woke up on Thursday. It came as no surprise to anyone who followed US politics on Sky News in Australia and/or Fox News in the [...]
Appearing on Sky News’ Sharri program on Thursday night, Melbourne-based businessman Michael Kroger made a quite shocking revelation. Kroger reported that he had heard from a Jewish Australian about the prevalence of anti-Semitism at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney during 2018. The man (who provided a name and mobile phone number) texted Kroger that he was [...]
Quelle surprise! – as the saying goes. Nick Bryant, the former BBC journalist, is the new presenter of Saturday Extra on Radio National. Bryant’s first show as presenter was last Saturday. In introducing the program, he declared: “We’re committing to bringing you a diversity of voices – some of whom you will agree with, some [...]
What a revealing day it was in the Federal Court in Sydney last Wednesday. ABC managing director and editor-in-chief David Anderson was in the witness box defending the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster’s decision in December 2023 against an unfair dismissal claim by freelance journalist Antoinette Lattouf. Lattouf’s five-day contract to present ABC Radio’s Mornings program as a temporary [...]