A mature Australian voting public tolerates parachuting of candidates into electorates when exceptional leaders are popular, inspire hope, prove preferable to competing local party members and bring leadership expertise to […]
Read MoreSafety on our streets
Repetitively enacting the same solutions for longstanding problems and getting similarly disappointing results is very dumb human behaviour and is even worse public policy. At the Central Coast on the […]
Read MoreNo fuss Pope Francis
Perhaps only in regaling the dead are we sufficiently circumspect and emotively staid, where our capacity to succinctly celebrate the life and times of the deceased becomes therapeutic and comforting […]
Read MoreCouncil’s rates ploy
The ludicrous claim from North Sydney council that private religious schools should pay rates voluntarily to rescue their budget after the swimming pool fiasco must be challenged (“Catholic parents fear […]
Read MoreBad look for Tigers
The mistreatment of Lachlan Galvin by the Tigers is reprehensible and reeks of exorbitant hypocrisy by senior players bemoaning his lack of loyalty to this historically mediocre team (“Heat ramps […]
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An awkward moment we cant shake
Dripping with a little sarcasm and perhaps a heart full of parody, correspondent Holly Truelove regales us with a tongue-in-cheek analysis of the chemistry of introductions relating to the car […]
Read MoreEasy does it
Recounting the divisiveness of politics and the avid insistence of self righteousness on all sides of the political chasm both here and in the US, David Penberthy is right to […]
Read MoreLACKLUSTRE LEADERSHIP IS TROUBLING
Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The mocking tribute to our political elite in the best editorial of the year should be mandatory reading (“Here’s to our […]
Read MoreODD REQUEST BY COUNCIL FOR MONEY
One might expect that a city council with multicultural ties will occasionally publicly express opinions about foreign homelands but such talk should be cheap and not involve magnanimous donations of […]
Read MoreLioning up for laughs
Full marks to journalist Tyson Jackson, demonstrating literary excellence with his use of homonyms to amusingly introduce his story about new lion cubs at the Western Plains Zoo (“Pride of […]
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