"We’ve allowed ourselves to become the meat in a sandwich torn between Trump’s schizophrenic US…
"What is it in our system that makes it impossible for men such as Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd to prosper in the rough and tumble of federal politics, particularly when they are committed to policies that the great majority approves?" asks "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
WITNESS J, the prisoner held secretly in Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre for more than seven months, is soon to publish a book on his incarceration with some of Australia’s most odious paedophiles.
"While we have turned Australia upside down for one tragedy, we’ve done virtually nothing for the other," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"There’s one great mission that cries out for leadership: it’s the transition demanded by climate change – the massive national effort needed to harness all our human and material resources into a blueprint for the future," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr has described holidaying Canberrans self-isolating at the south coast as “extraordinarily selfish” because of the risk of spreading the virus and a lack of resources there. Columnist ROBERT MACKLIN, writing from Tuross, begs to differ.
"Here’s the really big question: who will be first to produce the effective vaccine, once the first version fails to turn the tide? I like to think it will be Queensland Uni combined with Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The people of Canberra and surrounds had heard calls to support their compatriots who were doing it tough and responded with that big Australian heart. For we’re not just a country, it seems, we’re a community as well," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"When Hannah Clarke’s children died, there was only her footprint left to remember them by," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Waiting to see a doctor is bad enough, but "the real horrors are the specialists… their egos outpace even the radio shock jocks’, their arrogance grows positively Trumpian", says "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Suddenly there was a sense that 'we’re all in this together', that the very idea of being Australian and literally under fire from the monster made us one," writes The gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"This is the year when our chickens come home to roost… or should that be roast?" writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
