If we’re to believe the government and the mainstream media, disinformation — the dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead — is an existential threat to our democracy. Which is odd, because some of the most egregious disinformation is disseminated by governments and mainstream media. For some governments
Would you rather meet a sloth of savage bears* in the woods or face a judge who thinks the presumption of innocence is an “intractable problem”? I’d take the running of the bears, any day. (*Yes, that’s the collective noun for bears. I looked it up.) As I
If you were going under for open-heart surgery, would you want your surgeon to be: a) the best and smartest at medical school, or, b) the “right” race? If the woke have their way, you won’t have any choice but to opt for b, and hope that Daquan knows
Ever noticed that the biggest spruikers of “renewables”, like most “environmentalists”, are wealthy people who would never tolerate a wind or solar farm within a hundred miles of their wealthy, inner-city suburbs. You’ll never see a field of towering windmills blanketing the landscape in Double Bay, nor will you
Are we done with ‘Multiculturalism’, yet? Of course we are – the elite just won’t admit it. No matter how many times they prod the festering corpse, we all know Multiculturalism is a dead ideology. It was dead on arrival, of course, but this year the smell just got too
It’s a fundamental tenet of communications that a good rep takes a long time and hard work to build, while a negative perception can build overnight and be near impossible to shake. For politicians especially, there’s a point at which negative perceptions become all-but fixed in the minds
Parachuting activists into safe seats is rarely a good idea, while giving them pet ministerial portfolios never is. Because an activist’s focus is almost always monomaniacal. They see everything only ever through the lens of their single-minded activism. Labor should have learned that lesson when it parachuted Midnight Oil
As both Hillary Clinton and former Australian PM Julia Gillard – credit where it’s due to both – have recently observed, the pro-Hamas mobs storming university campuses and social media are singularly ignorant of history. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or
In human history, a handful of technologies have changed everything. Fire, for instance, and agriculture. Writing. The wheel. In the last few centuries, though, one technology upended global balances of power. As hinted in Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, that technology was the firearm. Who had projectile weapons,
WWII was the deadliest conflict in human history. Within that haemoclysm, as it’s been dubbed, there were some jobs that were infinitely more deadly than others. An Italian partisan, for instance, had a slightly less than even chance of being killed, while over one third of the Waffen-SS were
This is a classic Maltese lunch and can be made a variety of ways. At its simplest, as my father-in-law used to make it, it can be just chunks of bread dipped in olive oil and rubbed with fresh tomato and peeled garlic. But for a centrepiece for a picnic
Opinion polling shows that support for Israel among ordinary people remains strong. Very few support Hamas. Yet, that is not what we see peddled by the media, who too-obviously sympathise with the vicious ignoramuses screaming in the streets and on university campuses. Yet again, the divide between the elite minority
If it’s not bad enough that Australia has to deal with the trail of poo left behind by Jacinda Ardern, now her weak, wet imitator is throwing a few handfuls of his own across the Tasman. I refer, of course, to the infamous “Direction 99” pushed through by the
Imagine if, at the same time we were sending our troops to fight Nazi Germany, Australia had invited thousands of brownshirts to migrate to our shores and hold their own little Nuremberg-style rallies. Imagine jack-booted Sturmabteilung goose-stepping down Pitt St in Sydney, chanting Sieg Heil! while thousands of Aussie airmen
One of the greatest fallacies of the Australian left is that it’s taxpayer-funded propaganda unit, the so-called “National Broadcaster”, exists to “balance” the wicked “right-wing media”. This is completely contrary to the ABC’s statutory obligations, set out in the ABC Act and Charter. By law, the ABC has
