Opinion Articles

“Could of Went Home” to “We Gather on Country”

Inner-city elites once mocked the battlers who clipped vowels and stumbled over grammar. The blue-collar types who said things like “youse lot ain’t got none,” “me and him went down the pub,” or “them ones is better than this.” Drop an s off a verb or mangle a plural and you were marked uneducated, uncouth, destined for the wrong side of the tracks. Yet the same elites now beam with pride as they do exactly

Trevor Whittington September 27, 2025

Opinion Articles

Australia and the Mother Country Race Each Other to the Bottom

After more than a century of Federation and countless social experiments, you’d think Australia would have learned from the mother country how not to wreck an economy or an immigration system. Yet here we are in 2025, shackled to laws and institutions that guarantee only one thing: the slow, grinding slide down the global economic ladder. Australia has slipped from 5th in the OECD for GDP per capita in the 1970s to around 16th today.

Trevor Whittington September 11, 2025

Opinion Articles

How hard is it to help the Minister when it comes to drought?

It’s starting to feel like the longest-running game of political ping-pong in WA agriculture — letter, article, letter, article — back and forth between WAFarmers and the Minister over what should be the most straightforward of shared priorities: drought. But here we are, months later, with the Minister, her department, and the farming community speaking entirely different dialects. One from Venus, the other from Mars — one fluent in political-managerial climate-catastrophe language full of “multi-hazard

Trevor Whittington September 2, 2025