For all the “progressive” posturing of the Australian left, it was the Liberal Party who elected Australia’s first woman MP in the lower house, Dame Enid Lyons, and Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentarian, Sir Neville Bonner, and first Aboriginal cabinet minister, Ken Wyatt. Some political observers are speculating that
It’s on for young and old, down here in Tassie right now. I often describe Tasmanian politics as like a cross between a local Rotary club and a special school. But, as the 1996 documentary of local council elections, Rats in the Ranks, showed, just because politics is local
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Christopher Luxon, in his interview with Mike Hosking, has had a whinge and a sook about how his faith has been “misrepresented”. It’s a fairly black-and-white matter, either you are a Christian or you are not, you are either a Hindu or you are not, you are either a
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Most of us have an innate fear of spiders. We probably have been since our ancestors shared trees with the creepy-crawlies. But it’s more pronounced in some than others. Some people can observe spiders with creeped-out fascination, while others run screaming at the very sight of them. There’s
The phenomenon called “Gell-Mann Amnesia” refers to the experience of renowned physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Gell-Mann recalled reading an article on a physics topic in a mainstream newspaper that, as a physicist, he knew instantly was embarrassingly wrong. Then he turned the page, read an article on a topic he knew
Back at the dawn of the automobile era, people were so concerned about these new-fangled infernal machines that drivers had to employ someone to walk in front of them waving a warning flag. But if the same people had had the mindset of the Climate Cult, they’d have been
Scaremongering about nuclear energy has become so commonplace that most of us never really question it. The very mention of “nuclear waste” and “radiation” triggers an almost visceral fear reaction. This completely defies logic and science. We live, after all, bathed in a sea of “background radiation”. Commonplace objects, from
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Shane Te Pou has an article in the NZ Herald questioning whether we can have politics without division. He suggests we can all learn how to do politics from Maori. Naturally, he begins his article by attacking those who oppose the Labour Party. So much politics seems to be about
e=mc². It’s probably the most famous equation in modern history, out-competing (these days) even Pythagoras’ Theorem. But, how many of you actually stop and think what it means? The e stands for energy, the m for mass. In other words, energy and mass are interchangeable. That is, mass
It’s a generally accepted maxim of Australian politics that state and federal politics have little to do with each other. Mostly, it’s fairly true-ish, but, at the same time, sometimes state bells can chime very ominously for federal politics. For the last few years, the floundering of the
There’s an old truism that’s as applicable to politics as it is to nature. Both are, after all, red in tooth and claw. That truism is that predators sense and target weakness. Why else do you think Vladimir Putin has only launched invasions when a Democrat is in
Is there a more odious, pathetic, political buzz-word than “dog-whistling”? Because, here’s the funny thing about a dog whistle: only dogs can hear them. So, if you’re a journalist or politician screeching that your opponent is “dog-whistling”, you’re admitting that you are a dog. Otherwise you wouldn’
