Driving into the nearest city (or, at least, the overgrown country town that passes for one in Tassie) this morning for an appointment, I was yet again confronted with the sight of tents pitched in parks and under bridges. Such a sight I’d rarely seen before in my five-
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Christopher Luxon is trying very hard to be the overbearing boss that everyone hates. He’s yanked Chris Bishop’s chain for a strongly worded email that was 100% correct in every regard, and yet Luxon pulled him into line. National Party leader Christopher Luxon has spoken to a senior
Like all politicians and similar hucksters, the truth comes out, not during the campaign or the hard sell, but once the vote is in and the deal is done. Politicians and used-car salesmen will grease you with all manner of snake oil: it’s only when they’ve got
In a rare outbreak of collective decency, six of Australia’s former prime ministers have issued an unprecedented letter of support for Israel, and condemnation of Hamas and anti-Semitism. Tellingly, one conspicuously declined. Also tellingly, “pro-Palestine” advocates “condemned” the letter. But first, the good stuff. Six former prime
It’s disgusting and nauseating, but not exactly surprising, to see the hateful extremists of the Greens proudly marching alongside Muslims chanting “Gas the Jews!” and salivating over the murder of thousands of Israelis. They’re the Greens, after all. Extremism, from Stalinism to Islamic fanaticism, is in their bitter
Here’s a headline you won’t read in the mainstream media: 2023 Smashed Cold Weather Records. Wait, what? How is this possible? 2023 was the year we entered the “era of global boiling”! The UN Secretary-General said so. True enough, but Antonio Guterres also said, hey, those guys
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Have a wee thought for Chris Hipkins, who seems to be shedding a few tears as he comes to grip with being the feather duster after six years of thinking he was the rooster. Apparently, it’s ‘pretty tough’ to lose their cushy jobs after the voters caned them in
In what would surely stand as the worst agreement since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Australian Greens are agitating for a formal coalition with Labor. Anthony Albanese should enter into a formal coalition with the Greens, sign a public power-sharing deal with Adam Bandt and promote Greens MPs to
As Hemingway’s character Mike Campbell observes, in The Sun Also Rises, he went bankrupt “Two ways… Gradually and then suddenly.” The world has slid into a poisonous eruption of naked anti-Semitism in similar fashion: gradually and then suddenly. Anti-Semitism, fashionably disguised as “pro-Palestinian”, has been gradually
Like water off a duck’s back is an old saying for a very good reason. Water really does seem to slide off the feathers of a duck almost by magic. As Professor Julius Sumner-Miller used to say famously ask, Why is it so? This is not an inconsequential
