Groucho Marx famously didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. For Australia’s political elites, it’s more a case of desperately wanting the perks of a club they publicly profess to loathe. Forget the Melbourne Club, the Atheneum, or the Tattersall’
Possibly my first encounter with genuine, hard-as-nails racism came on a trip to the Northern Territory in my teens. A publican in Alice Springs said to me, “I don’t ban anyone on the colour of their skin, I just have a dress code — and I’ve never seen a
Can Jacinta Nampijinpa Price please stop giving us reasons to like her? The first-term senator first made a name for herself vocally advocating for conservative Aboriginal politics in the Northern Territory, drawing attention to appalling rates of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities, including the role of traditional culture and tribal
The left just never learn. You’d think that after Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” clanger became widely recognised as the moment she definitively lost the 2016 election, lefties might have twigged, even the tiniest bit, that screaming names at people isn’t the best way to win them
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Have you ever heard of doom scrolling or doom surfing? Wikipedia describes it as “the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of negative news online. In 2019, a study by the National Academy of Sciences found that doomscrolling can be linked to a decline in
As I wrote recently, Australia’s Nationals, unlike New Zealand’s National, are finally recovering some testicularity in the face of the Climate Cult. The Nationals, the old Country Party, are facing a grass-roots backlash from their constituents, over “Net Zero” policies in general, and “renewables” in particular. Because, unlike
Winston Peters has truly thrown the cat among the pigeons by challenging the foundational myth of “Aotearoa-New Zealand”: magic Maoridom and “indigeneity”. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters told supporters at a public meeting in Nelson on Sunday that Maori are “not indigenous”. “Here’s the rub if you are
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On Sunday Winston Peters said the unthinkable in New Zealand politics, daring to say that Maori are not indigenous. Maoris’ own oral history tells us they are not indigenous and in fact that they are fellow immigrants and may be the first colonisers. Christopher Luxon, who thinks he’s the
Despite the similarities in their names, the Nationals in Australia should not be confused with New Zealand’s National party. There are similarities, of course – the Nationals are in coalition, after all, with the real trans-Tasman cousin to National, the Liberal Party – but key differences. The Nationals are what used
Does Marcia Langton ever actually listen to herself? Does this “academic”, feted by the left as a supposedly powerhouse intellect, actually believe the garbage she spouts? Nonsense, for instance, such as claiming that Aborigines have occupied Australia “for millions of years”, or lauding Bruce Pascoe’s make-believe taradiddle, Dark Emu.
Journalist Tim Pool calls the modern left a “low-information” “cult”. He’s not wrong. If you’ve ever tried to reason with a cultist, you’ll know just how immune they are to any information that contradicts their worldview. It’s not a matter of just disagreeing: they simply do
Ever notice that, while visitors to Islamic countries are forced to abide by Muslim prescriptions, Muslims violently resist conforming to cultural expectations in other countries? Consider, for example, powerful, feminist female politicians dutifully donning hijab on state visits to Muslim countries – or even in their own countries, when it comes
