Page from history “Do you know that there is a duke in Scotland who can ride 90 miles without leaving his own estate?” asks a man in Victor Hugo’s 1869 novel, The Man Who Laughs. “Do you know that Her Majesty has £700,000 sterling from the Civil List, besides castles, forests, domains, fiefs, tenancies, freeholds,…
For years and years, every time politicians or commentators were asked about adopting a Republic in preference to a Monarchy, they replied: “Let’s not talk about Republicanism now. It’s such awfully bad manners. We should wait until the Queen has died and then we can have that discussion.” Well, folks, the Queen is dead. She…
Page from history: bushies go to war “Total silence befell the gathering as the announcer, in sombre and subdued tones, began to read a message from the Prime Minister advising that Britain was at war with Germany and that Australia, as a member of the British Empire, was also at war. “Young men were urged…
Mainstream media in Australia is corrupt. There are a few notable exceptions, and they deserve our wholehearted praise and support. The agenda and the tone are set by Murdoch-controlled platforms which include metropolitan tabloids in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, regional papers all over the States and Territories, and Sky News. Queensland is a special case….
Today’s media is choked with Virtue Signals. Western world leaders, academics, reporters and commentators are falling over themselves to make a Virtue Signal in support of Ukraine. Mrs Biden, wife of the US President and co-conspirator in monumental crooked deals with Joe and his corrupt son Hunter, flies secretly to Kiev to meet Ukraine’s “first…
‘A Coup in Canberra: The Political Assassination of an Australian Prime Minister’ by Alex Mitchell Reviewed by Michael Smith John Gorton’s literary hero was Ernest Hemingway, who wrote the wartime classic For Whom theBell Tolls after spending time in Spain as a correspondent during the Civil War in the 1930s. Gorton, who once wanted to become…
“The historical and political ride of the decade” – Bob Carr “The book is totally unpredictable, shot through with zany and erudite qualities. Like a river in Australia’s tropical north, it overflows its banks in all directions. But any reader should fasten their seat-belt, because this is the historical and political ride of the decade,…
Gladys Berejiklian has quit State Parliament and politics, after heading a NSW Liberal Party centre-right administration for six years. Her legacy is a NSW Liberal Party right-wing Government. She has departed to the sound of sobbing and mourning by her band of rusted-on supporters. But the vast majority of people in NSW were left bewildered…
With everyone I know searching for a job – part-time or full-time, casual or permanent, at home or at a workplace – it is nice to see that the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has taken up the challenge. Let’s not call it Job Finder (that name is already taken), let’s call it God Finder. The…
My brother, Anthony John Mitchell, has died in Brisbane while in palliative care from cancer. He was 81. Tony was born on 22 August, 1939, one of four boys whose parents were Jim and Lucy Mitchell. Before their marriage, Lucy Gladys Wilesmith was a member of a pioneering family from the Herberton area of far…
