The Albanese government is fast losing the Australian public on nearly every issue. Notably, they’re proving yet again that while “climate action” might be a big deal for the chattering classes, it’s consistent electoral poison. “Climate action” has never won an election, but it has cost them. Similarly,
Seeing as he likes to prate about his love of Aussie bands, I’ll let the Cruel Sea do the talking to Anthony Albanese: The honeymoon is over, baby, it’s never gonna be that way again. Whatever goodwill the PM might have been able to rely on after the
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Heather du Plessis-Allan thinks Grant Robertson was a great bloke, but a poor Finance Minister. I’m not sure he was what I’d call a great bloke, but she’s right, he was a poor finance minister. Commentators find it difficult to criticise Grant Robertson. It’s because pretty
Ever notice how some mass shootings in America vanish from the left-elite’s radar almost immediately, while others they can’t stop yammering about for years. Heck, Joe Biden made a huge song and dance about passing the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act”, even though Emmett Till was murdered nearly 70
As I wrote recently, California, in the midst of a periodic water crisis, is busily demolishing dams. Why? Because of the magic, oops, ‘spiritually important’ fish, according to the mythology of local Indian tribes. Of course, as one reader pointed out, there are sound environmental reasons for at least building
The biggest problem with trying to reason with the sort of loonies who glue themselves to roads and throw soup at priceless artworks is precisely that they are beyond reason. They are in fact religious zealots, as impervious to evidence and logic as a swivel-eyed beardy-weirdy wearing a sandwich-board and
What would have been the point of the Allied armies defeating Hitler’s Reich, if Nazism had been allowed to become the dominant ideology at home? Yet, that’s exactly what has happened in the “War on Terror”. Osama bin Laden might have been shot in his Pakistani equivalent of
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The Streisand Effect is named after Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress a photographer’s publication of a photograph, taken to document coastal erosion in California, which showed her clifftop residence in Malibu, California inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. And it is photographs
As I wrote during the Covid pandemic, I’d often wondered what it must have been like to be in say, Berlin, Rome, or Shanghai, and watch the world around you slide inexorably into totalitarianism. Well, now I know. Unfortunately, Covid was very far from the end of the story.
I wrote recently for Insight describing a visit to my home town and a pilgrimage to the glittering post-modern edifice that has replaced the old regional library I used to love. The first thing I noted was that this ultra-modern “multi-function learning space” had far fewer actual books than it
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Proving the adage about stopped clocks, it was Noam Chomsky who said, “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all”. I don’t like Chomsky, but I believe in his right to say even the horrendous things
