David Flint

Australia, defenceless

16 June 2018 9:00 am

The ability of our armed forces to defend the nation is being crippled, not through any fault of theirs, but…

Decline and fall

9 June 2018 9:00 am

It’s official. Our decline into Third World status is accelerating. Our students languish behind those of Kazakhstan and Bulgaria in…

Tony’s trifecta

2 June 2018 9:00 am

Surely it was obvious that, on any reasonable examination, Donald Trump was by far the better candidate in the 2016…

Warrior prince weds a Hollywood princess

26 May 2018 9:00 am

The happy marriage between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will have formidable and long-lasting consequences. Australians took the occasion to…

Budget conjuring trick

19 May 2018 9:00 am

The Federal Budget process is no more than a conjuring trick to ensure the next election results in a high-taxing,…

Aux bien pensants

12 May 2018 9:00 am

Beria born again in the usa You could have thought the central feature of French President Macron‘s visit to Australia…

Save Liddell or let Abbott do it

5 May 2018 9:00 am

Responsible for Australia having the world’s most expensive electricity and gas, the least thing the Turnbull government could do is…

Menzies, the banks and Liddell

28 April 2018 9:00 am

The appalling behaviour of the banks and insurance companies, exposed in testimony to the banking Royal Commission, is nothing new.…

Harlotry in the collective of collectives

21 April 2018 9:00 am

Who controls the mainstream media? Baldwin famously declared that moguls like Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook did, exercising power without…

More Marxist gibberish

14 April 2018 9:00 am

Paul Keating‘s obsession with turning us into some politicians’ republic is not about improving the governance of Australia, surely the…

It’s (party) time

7 April 2018 9:00 am

Was there anyone who was not moved when they saw former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith’s public act of contrition…

Aux bien pensants

31 March 2018 9:00 am

Mug the frugal, turnbull teaches shorten The standing of politicians has never been lower. They’re widely regarded as self-interested, incompetent,…

Lesson One: don’t get caught

24 March 2018 9:00 am

The dismissal of the FBI’s second-in-charge, Andrew McCabe, was not by President Trump, as several Australian outlets who bothered to…

Washington diary

17 March 2018 9:00 am

Washington is now the capital of a resurgent nation, rejecting the untenable proposition that she is in terminal decline, a…

Abbott’s winning agenda

3 March 2018 9:00 am

‘The government which stopped the boats can’t slow the planes’, concluded Michael McLaren, the Macquarie Media Network’s rising young star.…

Aux bien pensants

24 February 2018 9:00 am

Proscribe parallelism not promiscuity By proscribing sexual relations with ministerial staff and through his public moral condemnation of Nationals leader…

Autocues for the clueless

17 February 2018 9:00 am

Was anyone really surprised when the factional warlords and powerbrokers in the key NSW division of the Liberal party so…

Mr President, look beyond the swamp

10 February 2018 9:00 am

Not since Ronald Reagan has the reaction to a State of the Union address been so optimistic, anticipating the return…

Foundations laid in 1788

27 January 2018 9:00 am

Amanda Vanstone recently chose to reveal that neither she, nor indeed, anyone she knew, would be celebrating the arrival of…

Aux bien pensants

20 January 2018 9:00 am

Drive-by media’s bias against Trump The reporting of the 2016 presidential election can hardly be celebrated as the media’s finest…

Keep on tweeting, Mr President

13 January 2018 9:00 am

There are two ways to judge a president or a prime minister. That which is true is based on policy,…

Republic calls based on a blatant untruth

3 January 2018 10:20 am

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Proverbs 26:11 This biblical proverb is,…

Give us the tools to tackle terror

1 January 2018 12:26 pm

The recent terrorist outrage in Melbourne, as well as the too-frequent rampages by immigrant criminal gangs in that city, will…

Bennelong to Turnbull: change or go

18 December 2017 7:23 am

Unlike New England, which was very much Barnaby Joyce’s victory, the Liberal win in Bennelong may be credited to the…

Seasonal notes

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Abbott and Trump are right   It is one year since Tony Abbott, recalling the role of the Australian Light…