Run of the mill banking is pretty simple: take deposits at one rate of interest and lend at a higher one. But risk management is another matter and requires bright people. As the failure of Silicon Valley Bank demonstrates, it is not a job for terminally woke incompetents fixated on skin colour and the sexual preferences of clients and colleagues

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Since there is no legal-institutional mechanism for holding the UK's parliamentary government to account, the effect is that it is accountable to no one, except every five years at general elections. The consequences have now been demonstrated by three years of the COVID hysteria's arbitrary edicts and arrests

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Promoting students who have not acquired the necessary skills is no kindness. Educators will tell you that repeating a grade damages self-esteem, but the real damage comes later with the discovery that an apprenticeship is unobtainable, nor any other career path that might lead to a better job and higher pay

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Les Hiddins, better known as The Bush Tucker Man, has spent three decades investigating reports and folk memories of a 'white tribe' of Dutch shipwreck survivors said to have established a colony near the site of what became the Hermansburg Mission. It is so outrageous a theory, the same historians who allow Bruce Pascoe to go uncriticised won't even consider it. Yet archives and detective work keep turning up tantalising clues

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DISCOVERY OF A WHITE COLONY ON THE NORTHERN SHORE OF NEW HOLLAND A correspondent living near Halifax has favoured us with the following interesting communication:- A friend of mine, lately arrived from Singapore, via India overland, having been one of a party who landed at Raffles Bay, on the north coast of New Holland, on […]

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 Les Hiddins’ curriculum  vitae Born Brisbane Qld. 13 Aug 1946. Childhood spent in Cairns and Brisbane. Two adult children. Daughter Zoe, who is a marine science teacher in Townsville, and Tim, who was an Army Blackhawk pilot but now employed by Army as a Dentist. after graduating from. James Cook University, Cairns. Joined the Australian […]

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It sounds so simple and oh-so lovely: a world soon to be powered by 'clean, green' renewable technologies. Run the numbers, however, and the gold-plated impracticality of such a vision becomes instantly apparent. What a rational analysis reveals is that, if coal and gas are to be spurned, the only power generation that makes sense is nuclear, small modular reactors in particular

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Will any real information on the disastrous policies of the day, be it it the Voice or climate agendas of state and federal governments, seep into the minds of most voters? A silly question to which the expected and duly delivered response is 'The planet is dying! We must do our bit to save it.' That’s the level of sophistication which swings elections

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The problem Gildas Sapiens identified in the mid-sixth century was the growing separation of the British isles into divided ‘nations’ and the threat to its integrity presented by unlimited migration from Europe. Were the Welsh monk to return he would, of course, be astonished by the wonders of the modern world, but the problem of migrants pouring across the Channel in their monthly thousands would be instantly familiar

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The spreading of false information to children in Queensland's schools about the 'enormous resource of traditional culture' under the guise of education would not so long ago have evoked loud and spirited public condemnation. Now the feel-good myths of Aborigines inhabiting a pacific and harmonious pre-settlement Eden are to be endorsed by the full authority of an Act of the Parliament

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