Rudd’s open door to illegals
The great cover-up of the illegal asylum-seeker traffic to Australia is beginning to unravel.
Piers Akerman
One people – a hole lot of failed policies
FORTY years ago, an overwhelming majority of Australians celebrated the results of the referendum – conclusively carried by 90.8 per cent of the vote – which enabled Aboriginal Australians to be included in the national census and enabled the Federal Government to give them legal protection.
Gillard’s pygmy sell-out
Sydney can be a city of barbarians
THIS is a story of shame. Sydney’s shame and a sorry reflection on our slide into disgrace. It is also a horror story, a tale of outrageous behaviour towards a young woman who was critically ill. It is also every caring parent’s worst nightmare.
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Rewarding rhetoric and applauding lies
TRUTH has suffered a major setback with the awarding of a 2008 John Curtin Prize for Journalism to Tasmanian polemicist Richard Flanagan.
China’s conjuring acts were hardly a surprise
THE most surprising thing about the waves of outrage emanating from the Beijing Olympics about the manner in which the despotic Chinese Government is running the games is that anyone is actually surprised.
How could anybody struggle to sell Sydney?
THERE are branding problems and branding problems.
When my mortal enemy is my friend
THE international Left and our own flag-waving supporters of Hamas, Hezbollah and every other Palestinian terror organisation, look pretty stupid today as Israel provides sanctuary for Palestinians fleeing home-grown terror directed against each other.
Rudderless euphoria
VETERAN social researcher, Howard-hater and Fairfax columnist Hugh Mackay was one of those euphoric about the election of the Rudd Labor government last November.
Monsters deserving justice
THE capture of mass murderer Radovan Karadzic was due as much, if not more, to concerns about Serbia’s economic links to the European Union than to a desire for justice, but that’s no reason not to celebrate.
Labor’s name is mud
THE former Soviet Union killed the Aral Sea, the fourth largest inland body of water.
Costello the MP or PM?
Former treasurer Peter Costello has the capacity to change the political landscape with his nearly completed political biography.
Maurice O’Riordan’s view on nude children as art wrong
AUSTRALIA’S arts community needs to drag itself back into reality.
The failure of Garnaut
TAXPAYERS should ask Professor Ross Garnaut for their money back: his report is little more than a fearmongering document designed to bolster the age-old socialist agenda of wealth redistribution.
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