"Mr Dick intones something that, if you listen closely, can make your hair stand on end," bemoans "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"British occupiers, who had packed their castles and manor houses with the wealth from three centuries of slave trading, were simply sickening," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Maybe our species is not fit for purpose – perhaps hard fact and comforting fiction are inseparable in the human psyche; and our time in the universe will be as fleeting as a passing shadow," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Albanese has railed against the neoliberal movement to abandon domestic manufacturing in favour of imports... He is determined that we will once again be a country that makes things," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Unless something totally unexpected occurs, in January 2025 Trump will resume his chaotic, narcissistic governance from the White House, backed by a rabble Congress and a compliant Supreme Court," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Albo proclaims India’s Narendra Modi as a paragon of 'democracy' while knowing full well that he uses his Hindu religion to bolster his support and oppress his opposition in the Sikh and Muslim communities," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Stan Grant’s protest about his desperate ordeal in the face of social media threats and insults was sad to watch… but when you choose a working life on public television there are well worn ways of coping," says columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
MY long-time friend and fellow author, Peter Thompson, was recently strolling in Hyde Park, London,…
"The tram is not just some harmless 'virtue signalling' by the Labor-Greens team that has governed Canberra for almost a generation… It is an irresponsible, outlandishly expensive absurdity," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"We like to think it’s the greedy money-loving conservatives who take the lead, but the truth is the Labor Party is up to its neck in the same dirty game," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Last week’s decision by the Australian government to acquire a strategic sovereign partnership with CEA, the nation’s most advanced defence technology company, is the culmination of an extraordinary Canberra saga, writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
In 2019 ROBERT MACKLIN broke the national story of the secret trial of Witness J and his furtive imprisonment in the Alexander Maconochie Centre. Now the judge's sentencing remarks have been released, but Witness J won't be silenced…
