It sounds like a tragic enough story: four people hospitalised, three of them dying, after a family lunch in a quiet country town apparently went horribly wrong. Or is it something more sinister? On Saturday, July 29, 48-year-old Erin Patterson cooked a lunch of wild mushrooms for her ex-husband’s
PM Anthony Albanese and the Yes campaign are in frantic damage-control mode. Again. The exposure of the full text of the foundational document of the Indigenous Voice referendum, the so-called “Uluru Statement from Heart”, has revealed the real agenda behind the “Voice”. Instead of the single page of apparently (but
The messenger-shooting continues in the ACT, in the wake of the explosive inquiry that led to the resignation of its top prosecutor. The Sofronoff inquiry made findings of serious misconduct of DPP Shane Drumgold during his prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins. Rather than be
One of the great comic creations of the last fifty years was Rik Mayall’s “Rick”, one of the four student housemates of The Young Ones. Rick is a shrewdly drawn instance of the perpetual archetype of the middle-class leftist: parroting the slogans of radical leftism whilst remaining utterly, selfishly
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The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Poll is out and, like the other latest polls, it has shown a sharp slump in Labour’s numbers and now matches all the other polls showing NZ First has crossed the dreaded 5% threshold. Winston’s back, and we are looking at a change
Reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef are greatly exaggerated. Despite having survived at least half a million years of nature’s vicissitudes, the Reef has been under supposedly imminent threat for almost as long as I can remember. In the 1970s, it was the crown of thorns
The greatest problem facing centre and right-of-centre voters across the Western world is finding a clear point of difference between major parties. Supposedly conservative parties today only seem to offer an alternative of left, rather than far-over-the-cliff left. In Australia, we’ve long dubbed them “Laborals”. Americans have their “RINOs”
Thankfully, the Indigenous Voice referendum seems unstoppably headed for defeat. Australians, sensibly, are increasingly revolting against the idea of turning Australia into an apartheid state, with Constitutionally-mandated racial separatism. If the chaos unleashed in Western Australia by that state’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act isn’t warning enough, Australians just
Australia’s spiciest defo case is slowly grinding its way through the NSW courts. As I’ve written previously, a flamboyantly homosexual MP has taken one of Australia’s most notorious political bruisers to court. All over a tweet graphically describing gay sex. When I first wrote about this, I
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The Guardian has launched a new poll, and it shows pretty much the same as the last three public polls in New Zealand have shown, that a change of government is on the cards. A new political poll has put New Zealand’s centre-right opposition solidly ahead of the ruling
In 1999, Australian lawyer and journalist Paul Chadwick warned that, “All roads from a so-called independent statutory tribunal lead back through a parliament to a cabinet room”. Chadwick was speaking particularly of perennial issue of governments attempting to impose tighter control on media and information, but the same principle applies
Is Australia on the verge of dodging a very nasty bullet? It looks like it, but campaigners for the No case in the Indigenous Voice referendum are warning against complacency as opinion polls continue to plummet. For the first time, support for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice has fallen below
