"I’m aware that it’s early days yet. And when Trump actually takes the reins in late January, he might well begin knocking down the guidelines of presidential restraint," writes The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN .
"My wife discovered a catalogue filled with goodies and, once she ordered something, that damned internet has been sending her Christmas 'suggestions' for months," bemoans The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"We’ve never had health insurance, and until the government blew the budget on that idiotic tram it'd worked well. Now it’s a mess and we're caught between insane premiums and waiting forever for "elective surgery," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"We agree that if US voters re-elect Trump, America’s international standing would take a disastrous dive. That doesn’t trouble Alan, but it fills me with pain. In so many ways the US is the engine room of progress," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Like other TV news programs, its producers are obsessed with the vile, the criminal and the foolish things men do, but they censor themselves in their reportage and thereby 'normalise' such behaviour," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"A third turns out to be loot from the colonial era, since great uncle George happened upon it. So, of course, they’d never sell it, even if it would fetch 10,000 pounds at auction. Like hell they wouldn’t!" says columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Independent Rima Diab sits as the only ungrouped candidate for Murrumbidgee in the October 19 ACT election. Columnist ROBERT MACKLIN, despairing of who to vote for, gave her a phone call. He was impressed.
"Protecting kiddies is a lovely idea in theory, but until the governments of the world unite, it’s just not going to happen… ever," says The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Even if we don’t blast ourselves to pieces, our homeland, this beautiful blue planet, is becoming unlivable. And we have no one to blame but ourselves," writes The gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"If Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office, only a tealeaf reader would dare predict his attitude to the tripartite AUKUS caucus," writes The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Why do our white compatriots so easily forgive the British for not just stealing the Aboriginals’ homeland but then trying to wipe them out," asks The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Is mathematics a human invention or a discovery of something that was always there?" ROBERT MACKLIN invites an answer…
