by Chris Merritt | Sep 26, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
When Anthony Albanese was in New York this week trying to persuade Americans to invest in Australia, a truck emblazoned with a very different message was cruising the streets. An electronic billboard that ran its full length carried this warning: “Australia paid the...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 19, 2025 | All Posts, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Education, ICAC, Media Article
Since his appointment last year as Attorney-General of England and Wales, one thing has become clear about Lord Richard Hermer KC: nobody could ever describe him as a conservative. He owes his appointment – and his life peerage – to his friend and fellow...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 12, 2025 | Anti-Semitism, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Education, Media Article
Monday is international democracy day – an occasion that should be marked in this country by panic not celebrations. Support for democracy is slipping away globally and within significant parts of the Australian community as authoritarians take advantage of our...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 5, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Lawyers are circling, looking for weaknesses in the plan to send hundreds of foreign criminals to Nauru. They won’t need to look far. Those seeking to overturn the government’s plan will eventually work out that the High Court handed them a gift last November in the...
by Chris Merritt | Aug 29, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Defamation, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Thanks to her own intransigence, Brittany Higgins now faces a world of difficulties. Instead of apologising to her former boss, Linda Reynolds, and settling their defamation dispute out of court, Higgins held on to the end, blind to the warnings of what awaited her....
by Chris Merritt | Aug 22, 2025 | Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
History shows that even the most civilised societies can fall victim to forms of mania. And when they do, previously rational people can mistake group hysteria for the revelation of some great truth. It’s only later, when the madness passes, that the shame sets in....
