Firing on all cylinders Joe Hildebrand is certainly firing on all cylinders as he evokes a savage storm of literary thunderbolts on the heads of the political corpses of the […]
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NEW POPE HAS RIGHT CREDENTIALS
Understanding seven languages, working for 20 years as an Augustine missionary and later archbishop in Chiclayo, Peru, a diocese sounding very like his home town of Chicago, Robert Prevost stands […]
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Teen brings out our best
Peter Dutton’s demise was due to a number of factors but perhaps his commitment to harshly restricting immigration was resented personally by many migrant voters across the nation. As citizens […]
Read MoreHollywood hero
Having been pilloried, derided, mocked and roundly hated by the Hollywood elite since nominating for president in 2015, Donald Trump leaves many of his own supporters bewildered as he introduces […]
Read MoreCCTV is another hero
The inquest into the tragic events at Westfield Bondi Junction last year will be therapeutic for organisations and relatives, outlining the successes and failures on the day. (“The moment a […]
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LET US NOT FORGET OUR ELEPHANTS
News that the elephants in Taronga Zoo have been shipped to Adelaide is very sad for a city now without this most empathetic of creatures, instinctively displaying more social awareness […]
Read MoreLabor hurting Labor
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 […]
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