Lushington Brady
Under Pressure and Feeling the Chill
Down here in Tasmania, we’re used to cold winters, but this last week has been a doozy. For the first time in my 20+ years here, the pipes froze. The frost didn’t lift all day in the shade. The ice we broke off the fish pond one morning
Holding the UNRWA to Account
For years, evidence has been growing of the damning links between UN agencies – its Palestinian UNRWA in particular – and Hamas terrorism. The UNRWA was first caught out distributing violently anti-Semitic propaganda in the guise of “textbooks” for Palestinian schoolchildren. But October 7 laid bare much worse: hundreds of UN
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
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-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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