The latest 1News/Verian poll is out, and it confirms what two other polls last week showed, that the major parties are on a slide, as is normal in most election years. That makes National’s claim of trying to get over 40% in the election look rather like unobtainium.
With wall-to-wall Labor governments on Mainland Australia, the chattering classes have taken to growling about the supposed end of the conservative coalition. Just as they did when the same state of affairs ruled in the 1990s – right before John Howard cemented the longest continuous Australian prime ministership. The basic error
A friend of mine in the furry fandom once asked, “Why do people always draw otters as pirates?” Probably, I said, because they live in the sea and they’re kinda rapey. Like that other favourite of hippies and teenage girls, dolphins, otters may look all cute and fetching and
As readers will be more than aware, I’m resolutely not a fan of the Albanese government. That said, to damn them with faint praise, they are at least doing – or trying to do – one thing right. Ironically, that one thing is trying to fix decades of bad policy inflicted
As I wrote recently, even Big Brother himself, Mark Zuckerberg, is raising an eyebrow at Anthony Albanese’s Orwellian “online misinformation” bill. The bill would allow the government to arbitrarily declare anything online as “harmful misinformation”, while exempting themselves from the same scrutiny. The bill would also outlaw speech that
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Spare a thought for Charlie Mitchell: he’s all agog that Winston Peters would rather speak to me than answer his questions. The poor wee petal is having conniptions. Charlie’s article asks whether or not Winston Peters can ride the ‘freedom’ wave to the election and, thanks to the
There’s a reason volleyball – especially its beach variety – and tennis are some of the most-watched women’s sports on television. Of course, the global ubiquity of soccer naturally translates to its top-ranking for televised women’s sports, but – let’s be honest here – men especially are tuning into beach
As I wrote recently for Insight, the elite are ever-obsessed with controlling language. That’s because language and thought operate in an unbreakable feedback loop. As Orwell said, “language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to
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An ABC piece about the death of a platypus in suburban Hobart shrieked that it was a sign of the species’ imminent threat. While it is indeed shocking and tragic that the animal died because of a loop of twine embedded in its fur, it might also be pointed out
We all know the lawsuits are coming for the gender whisperers and child mutilators. The insurers know it, too. In a sure sign of the growing backlash against the illogical, harmful “trans” cult, one of Australia’s leading medical insurers has announced that it will no longer cover private practising
As I wrote some time ago, Is it time to spit on teachers? Not, of course, that I’m seriously advocating mass expectoration directed at the average chalkie. What I was highlighting was the extraordinary double-standard when it comes to institutional child abuse. The churches have, quite rightly, been held
Technically, it’s a fallacy to judge an idea on the metric of just who is endorsing it. Still, there are some actors who are so resolutely wrong that it’s a pretty safe bet that anything they like is a very bad thing indeed. One such bad actor is
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