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Albo Is Sending Us Down the Gurgler

Albo Is Sending Us Down the Gurgler

As I wrote recently, Australian PM Anthony Albanese just can’t get a winner. Nothing he does is working for him. Tax cuts, wage rises, handouts and all the traditional pork-barreling stuff is falling into open pockets and on closed ears. Mostly because of his own ham-fisted political stupidity. Albo

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Shouting for Hamas from the Rooftop

Shouting for Hamas from the Rooftop

After years of the left seeing ‘Nazi symbolism’ in even the most ludicrous places, a former Nazi symbol adopted by a modern terrorist group was flown from the roof of the Australian parliament. And the increasingly openly anti-Semitic left couldn’t have been more chuffed. A group of ‘pro-Palestinian’ supporters

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A Perfectly Preserved Trilobite Changes the Game

A Perfectly Preserved Trilobite Changes the Game

It’s become drearily commonplace for an over-excited media to proclaim that every moderately interesting scientific discovery “turns science on its head”. For once, though, they’re onto something. Perhaps the most exciting development in paleontology since the Ediacara discovery in South Australia in 1946 has taken place in Morocco.

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What a Load of Gas

What a Load of Gas

It used to be said, of something pointless, that it was like “sending coal to Newcastle”. Thanks to green lawfare, Australia may soon be doing just that, only with gas. Australia is one of the largest exporters of liquified natural gas in the world, yet its suffering such an acute

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Albo Let the Camel in the Tent

Albo Let the Camel in the Tent

The Australian Labor government is learning the hard way that you let the camel into your tent at your peril: the bastard keeps spitting on you and you end up with fleas. But Labor has been so determined to curry the Muslim vote, especially in its Western Sydney heartland, that

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100% Pure Can’t Do Attitude

As an astute reader noted, I recently referred to New Zealand as Australia’s “Very Special sibling”. I should mock, though: I live in Tasmania. Tassie and NZ have a lot in common: we’re small, remote and like to sell ourselves on our natural beauty. But we’re also

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Are We Weak, or Just Our Leaders?

Are We Weak, or Just Our Leaders?

I recently pondered if the dire state of Western civilisation was all our own fault: are we the ‘weak men’ who make hard times? Making the West strong again requires hard decisions and hard work with much risk and not much prospect of immediate reward. Collectively, though, we’re all

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The Strange History of a Charming Meme

Who was Kilroy, and why was he here? He was what might be considered a prototypical example of what biologist Richard Dawkins dubbed a “meme”, a simple cartoon drawing of a man peering over a wall, with the tag, “Kilroy Was Here”. It spread across every theatre in WWII were

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From the Archives of Goldman Ballsachs

From the Archives of Goldman Ballsachs

As we’re constantly finger-wagged, the idea that transgenderism is mostly just a fetish for creepy middle-aged men is just so much “transphobia”. After all, it’s perfectly normal and healthy to let middle-aged male fetishists dressed as grossly sexualised caricatures of women hang around women and girls in change

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India and Israel: New BFFs

Since the October 7 atrocities, Israel has seen its staunchest ally, the United States, turn lukewarm at best. At the same time, a sickening wave of anti-Semitism has swept the West – and shows no sign of abating. By contrast, a formerly staunch ally of the Arab cause – the first non-Arab

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Are We All the Weakies?

Are We All the Weakies?

We can all sense that Western civilisation is collapsing around us. The left celebrate it, the rest of us worry about it – hence the surprising, to some, women especially, fact that a great many men ponder the Fall of Rome quite regularly – and we all want to blame (or lay

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This Is How History Repeats

This Is How History Repeats

Both George Santayana and Winston Churchill averred that “those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it”. This is true enough, but it is also true that, while history often repeats, it rarely does so by carbon copy. The trends may be the same, humans

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The Trojan Camel Is in the Gates

The Trojan Camel Is in the Gates

PM Anthony Albanese and his government’s weakness and duplicity since October 7 are wakening a spectre that hasn’t haunted Australian politics for half a century. A beast that once nearly broke the Labor party and is threatening to again. Sectarian politics. In the 1950s, divisions between Labor’s

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Just Think, All This Could Have Been in the Constitution!

Just Think, All This Could Have Been in the Constitution!

When Anthony Albanese launched his disastrous “Voice” referendum, many naturally questioned why an “advisory body” needed to be enshrined in the Constitution. “So it can’t be abolished by a future government, like ATSIC was!” was the answer. Yet, the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was abolished for

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Albo Just Can’t Back a Winner

Albo Just Can’t Back a Winner

A positive public reputation takes a long, diligent time to build, but can be destroyed in an instant. A bad reputation is all-but entrenched: kick a puppy once and nobody will ever forget it. Anthony Albanese might as well have booted Toto up the jacksie on the steps of parliament,

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Why Can’t the Media Be Honest About Nuclear?

Why Can’t the Media Be Honest About Nuclear?

Nuclear energy is set to be – no pun intended – the hot-button issue of the next Australian election. After more than a decade in which voters have become increasingly frustrated with what they see as uniparty rule – the so-called “Laborals” – on climate change especially, Coalition leader Peter Dutton has finally hit

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