David Flint

Aux bien pensants

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Boxers, Accountants & Emperors In cleansing the Liberal Party, their anti-corruption consultant has scored another victory. The latest culprit is…

Australian notes

1 July 2017 9:00 am

LINO takeover Did that curious phone call really mean I was to be dragged before some Liberal inquisition to suffer…

Thespian notes

24 June 2017 9:00 am

Vacancy for a leader, not a comedian Malcolm Turnbull is the latest Australian politician to risk relations with our most…

Politicians and political activists cannot sit in judgement

21 June 2017 8:59 pm

The resignation of Professor David  Weisbrot from the Australian Press Council was not necessary. This relates to the controversy concerning the…

Manus: a ten point plan to recover our honour, our borders and our country

15 June 2017 2:16 pm

The Turnbull government has gone to water over the claim by about 1900 Manus Island detainees. It could have and…

Barbarians and Marxists

10 June 2017 9:00 am

The election of President Trump was, along with Brexit, one of the great events, not only of 2016, but of…

Aux bien pensants

3 June 2017 9:00 am

At war Australia, along with all of the West, is at war. The enemy is Islamic terrorism. What should we…

Worth losing the base?

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Donald Trump has identified a phenomenon in the Western media which many suspect and which believers in a free press…

Marine or Macron?

6 May 2017 9:00 am

If the voters obey the elites and elect Emmanuel Macron, the Fifth Republic may well be doomed, which could have…

‘Head of state’? Did I say that?

29 April 2017 9:00 am

Malcolm Turnbull has always been a vote loser, contrary to the opinion of the commentariat who put him there. Apart…

Malcolm Turnbull: governing for headlines and opinion polls

26 April 2017 2:17 pm

You would think that after imposing what they had promised not to impose, a new tax on superannuation, or the backpacker tax,…

Labor voters’ choice? Tony.

14 April 2017 11:00 pm

Tony Abbott is a ‘very good human being’, ‘his decency quite impossible to overlook’, declares the ALP eminence, Graham Richardson.…

Rejoice: America is back

11 April 2017 9:50 am

In the vast array of comment concerning President Trump’s intervention in Syria, recall that most commentators, whether American or not, refused to…

Australian notes

1 April 2017 9:00 am

The Human Rights Commission must go Described by its leading victim, Bill Leak, as a ‘rogue totalitarian unit’, the Human…

Our failing political class

21 March 2017 4:55 pm

Too many problems in modern Australia country have been either created by our ruling political class or made significantly worse by…

Pauline Hanson isn’t ripping off Queensland. Canberra’s ripping off the West

8 March 2017 5:30 pm

The accusation by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Pauline Hanson is trying to rip $1.6 billion from her home state to send to…

Tony Abbott must return

1 March 2017 7:34 pm

If the country is to be saved from impending disaster, Tony Abbott, like General MacArthur must return. (This will probably be…

Greg Craven’s strange nightmares

25 February 2017 5:00 pm

Professor Greg Craven seems to have had some awful nightmares about the collapse of constitutional government in Australia. But neither…

Tony, Pauline and Cory

18 February 2017 9:00 am

The best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand…

Tony, Pauline and Cory

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

The best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand…

Mr Trumble’s dumb deal

11 February 2017 9:00 am

President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…

Mr Trumble’s dumb deal

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…

Australian notes

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Invasion of the farm snatchers As part of its curious strategy of attacking its base, the Turnbull government seems intent…

Forget the Australia Day stunts, let’s just celebrate

24 January 2017 8:28 pm

Be warned. In recent years it has become the custom to spoil what would otherwise be an enjoyable Australia Day…

Inauguration notes

21 January 2017 9:00 am

The Worst President When it was said that Malcolm Turnbull is the worst Australian Liberal Prime Minister since Sir William…