It is difficult to envisage a conventional path back to power for the Liberal-National Coalition after the May 21 election loss that decapitated so many of its future leaders and handed a swathe of traditional blue-ribbon seats to left-wing independents. Perhaps a severe downturn in the economy or an external threat – but that’s the last thing any party would want to inherit.…

Aerial combat exists in a weird space between the sophisticated and the primal. On the one hand it relies on some of the most advanced, and expensive, technology ever created. On the other, it’s the last gasp of the duellist in conventional war – a battle of wits and will as much as of weaponry. It was because of this that the Germans…

“Beauty: The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit” (Merriam-Webster) Beauty is a quality that has lost its essence, and even relevance, in the modern and secular fabric of today’s society. In just a few years, nihilism, narcissism and sly liberalism have diminished the conveyance of true…

As News Weekly goes to press, Labor has won a majority in the lower house and will govern in its own right. Labor may have won, but both major parties have suffered swings and both have recorded ridiculously low primary votes. This represents a fragmentation of the two main parties. The Coalition achieved about 36 per cent of the vote, bleeding votes in…