Do you follow the way of Bradman? My oath
WHETHER prospective Australian citizens are aware of Sir Donald Bradman’s illustrious cricketing career should not be the determining factor in the Rudd Government’s decision to review the qualifying test.
Piers Akerman
It’s time to get tough if Australia is to survive and prosper in the future
TREASURER Joe Hockey has embarked on the annual pre-Budget scare campaign, warning of dire consequences if steps aren’t taken to rein in government spending.
Spy saga legacy of Left’s flawed reign
IF CNN’s international audience knew what a low priority Julia Gillard placed on national security, the network may not have given her a soapbox on which to offer unhelpful and irrelevant remarks about the alleged spying during Labor’s term in office.
Shorten’s hypocrisy knows no bounds
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ABC concocts global warming
Softer border protection laws caused disaster
REFUGEE advocates have been shrill and vocal in their claim that it’s too simplistic to blame people smugglers for the disaster that occurred off Western Australia’s Ashmore Reef on Thursday.
This gentle humanity is born in the heart
IT is now almost cliched to talk of the extraordinary manner in which the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy touched Australians and many people around the world and the spontaneity of their response.
Dead in the water and two more years of Labor to go
THURSDAY March 26 marks the halfway mark of the NSW Labor Government. More tears than laughter, more pessimism than optimism.
Labor party sells out
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd will be in his favourite place this week – that is, a long way from Australia.
When men of honour speak the nation must listen
COL Dillon is a man of impeccable reputation. A former Queensland police inspector, a whistleblower to the Fitzgerald Inquiry which exposed corruption at the highest levels of the Queensland Police Force, he won respect for the brave stand he took against entrenched crime. He is beyond reproach.
Bligh follows Labor’s lost ladies
DESPITE its huge majority, the Queensland Labor Government may follow Western Australian Labor into deserved oblivion at the March 21 election.
Making sense of loss by words and pictures
SUNDAY’S national day of mourning is not the end of the grieving process for those involved in the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy.
Fighting for the right to speak without fear
FREEDOM of speech and a free press are among the freedoms we take for granted in Australia. To those unfortunate enough to live in other nations, principally those outside the West, such freedoms are as rare as clean water.
Rudd steers us into economic disaster
DESPITE the international fiscal crisis, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is still hell-bent on pursuing anti-business policies that he and senior ministers well know will cost even more Australians their jobs.
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