Is Australia worth fighting for? Young Aussies say no
A clear majority of Australians under 35 would flee the country than stay and defend it in the face of a foreign aggressor. I only wish they would leave now, writes Piers Akerman.
A clear majority of Australians under 35 would flee the country than stay and defend it in the face of a foreign aggressor. I only wish they would leave now, writes Piers Akerman.
So-called climate change activism is morphing Australia’s children and Millennials into an ill-informed and unintelligent group, Piers Akerman writes.
Senator Kimberley Kitching left a trove of material which appeared to reveal a cover-up of a putrid culture within the party, Piers Akerman writes.
Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching will be remembered as a courageous foreign policy fighter who was not afraid to call out the world’s most powerful countries, Piers Akerman writes.
The case of Justice Peter Tree, who has his live-in partner as a legal associate, shows why more scrutiny is needed of our nation’s highest-ranking public servants, writes Piers Akerman.
Despite recently released evidence to the contrary, Australian republican conspiracists still believe the Queen was party to the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, but their continuing attacks on the Palace will damage their own cause, writes Piers Akerman.
The Andrews Government’s abject ineptitude in dealing with hotel quarantine is just the latest in a train of catastrophes that should have seen it run out of office, writes Piers Akerman.
The none-too-subtle installation of mainland Chinese law on the people of Hong Kong goes beyond anything any other totalitarian government has ever legislated, writes Piers Akerman.
For decades regional agriculture has relied on backpackers to do the work young Australians didn’t want to do. COVID-19 has closed that door but few of the 800,000 who signed up for Jobseeker have shown any interest in hitting the road.
Today’s tear-down the statues madness is a sign of the ideologically-inspired drive to rewrite history and undermine the capitalist energy that has permitted democratic society to deliver benefits around the world, writes Piers Akerman.
If black lives mattered, the BLM movement would focus on exploring the appalling lack of respect for law which ensures that jail time becomes a black rite of passage, writes Piers Akerman.
Black Lives Matter rallies held across Australia will probably lead to a spike in coronavirus infections — exposing the protesting organisations for the uncaring and destructive bodies they are, writes Piers Akerman.
The PM plans to dump COAG and bring Big Business together with Big Unions but is he actually representing the conservative side of politics? With two High Court vacancies looming, this government can do without outside emotional influences, writes Piers Akerman.
Federal Labor has not acknowledged the monstrous bullying the Chinese have engaged in since the virus emerged. And rather than grabbing the chance to wind back some of the cost of the virus, Labor wants to punish us with more debt, writes Piers Akerman
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