WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY?
(If you don’t think Australia is in dire straits, you’re dreaming) “Looking toward the future: the new Terror Australis” This past year has been a pivotal and negative one. Internationally…
PLEASE! SHUT UP! I’M TALKING ABOUT MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH!
(The virtues and vices of freedom of speech) We’re proud to live in a country that practices free speech. We agree that free speech is the hallmark of a functioning…
A LOOSENING OF THE TIES THAT BIND
INTRODUCTION Democracies (including ours) are fragmenting into warring mobs. Is it because we humans are evil at core….or because we are stupid when it comes to living together in large…
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS – INTRODUCTION
The world is changing so quickly it is impossible to keep up to date. As soon as an article like the one that follows is finished it’s outdated within a…
WHILE ROME BURNS
INTRODUCTION TO AN ARCHIVES ARTICLE: “WHILE ROME BURNS” Courtesy: Cathy Wilcox – Sydney Morning Herald The essay which follows was written in April this year, before election day. It wasn’t…
On one Knee – and Trembling
INTRODUCTION – JULY 2025 EDITION On One Knee - and Trembling The American President is shaping up as being the most dangerous autocrat in recent history. He has the power and…
AN INTRODUCTION TO NAVEL GAZING vs NAVAL GAZING
Chinese fleet on manoeuvres 2024 This month’s essay from the archives was written three years ago, just after Morrison’s announcement of AUKUS - and well before the outbreak of the…
WHY TRUMP’S KAMIKAZE TARIFFS WILL SINK AMERICA
TRUMP, THE ECONOMIST Trump made the right decision when he decided not to study economics. He’d certainly find economics very, very boring compared to the glitzy entertainment form of mock…
“IF YOU’RE “ONE EYED” YOU’RE NOT SEEING THINGS STRAIGHT”
(ANITSEMITISM IN AUSTRALIA) INTRODUCTION Things move fast these days. So fast that what you say today can be out of date the very next day. When this article was written the ‘new’…
Postscript: AMERICA’S ‘HIGH SPEED’ DEATH WISH?
Trump and his henchmen are moving quickly, aping the blitzkrieg techniques of another era and using the shock-and-awe tactics of a man who revels in demonstrating but two things -…