Jim Molan heads back to the preselection trenches
Jim Molan’s military contemporaries regard him as one of the most skilled tacticians of his generation. More, he thinks strategically…
To our glorious dead, but don’t forget the living
In a different age when navy Fleet Air Arm pilots flew flimsy wood and canvas biplanes, workplace health and safety…
Recep Erdoğan’s war on history
The most touching, if not confronting, memorial at Anzac Cove is the sandstone plinth inscribed with words attributed to Kemal…
They still call New Zealand home
Our Kiwi cousins can be a wee but prishus at times. Take this week’s visit across the ditch by PM…
A plaintive twilight swansong
The retiring member for Lilley didn’t actually whistle The Red Flag during his parliamentary swansong, though there were dog whistles…
The Trump delusion syndrome sufferers’ Samson strategy
Trump obsessives believe the current United States political imbroglio is all about a wall between that country and Mexico. Added…
Could the Katter crew organise horizontal refreshment in a brothel?
Back in 1996, recently retired Ipswich city councillor Paul Tully outed his then fellow councillor Pauline Hanson as a racist…
Their ABC exposed, implodes
The GayBC has become a creature of its own imagination. Observing incandescent staff delight from its far-right commentators – Phillip Adams, Barry…
Our army did not fight “frontier wars”
The Australian Army commemorates March 1, 1901, as its official foundation date. This day had particular military significance in South…
Katter’s Ottoman Empire Party?
Maverick MP Bob Katter has previously blasted any suggestion he could be a dual Lebanese citizen by descent, declaring no…
Imagine if they all stood up and shouted “bang” at once?
There has been much Pacific hand-wringing over suggestions China has been positioning to establish a military presence in Vanuatu. Before…
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,…
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