The next time our leaders unveil a grand plan to fix this or ban that ‘for our own good’, let’s not be swept away by the warm and fuzzy intentions. Let’s ask the cold, hard questions: What will this really do? What’s the track record of such ideas? And above all, what new mess might this create?
It’s time for change. We need a massive cut in immigration. We need to stop propping up a Ponzi scheme university sector. We need assimilation. But Lord knows it would be miracle to expect this from the coalition.
Removing local supply for furniture, flooring, cladding, joinery, and structural applications does not eliminate demand – it displaces it offshore.
It is important to fight the implementation of such policies to help ensure our freedom, privacy and security for ourselves and for future generations.
In this two-part series, I will discuss the range of concerns and problems that come with online identity verification requirements.
Australia has not been immune from what the historian Robert Wistrich has described as “the longest hatred”, with open antisemitism starting to become prevalent in the 1880s.
Loyalty is built from the ground up, not demanded from the top down. When members are not heard, they disengage – and when that happens at scale, parties hollow out.
Bondi Beach exposed that illusion for what it is. The men who opened fire were not responding to a policy or a border. They were acting on an older hatred and any framework that cannot begin with that fact is not merely incomplete – it is complicit.
As long as violence exists, people must be able to take reasonable, lawful steps to protect themselves from it.
At a critical time of rising extremism, intelligence agencies were cut back.
Like the candles on the chanukiah, keep the light of their names burning in these darkest of times.
Group of men ‘travelling to Bondi’ arrested by counter-terrorism police.
Fostering the bile of anti-Semitism is the last straw.
I know Ahmed is a genuine hero. But please, let’s not treat him as one, at least not in the way Albanese and McEvoy are: the ultimate cost will just be too great. I know this column makes me sound like a heartless piece of shit. But empathy has got us absolutely nowhere.
