In stunning news today, it’s been revealed that Queensland’s public service and academics were supposedly previously hiring on merit. Not that anyone would know it. After all, “merit” seems a strange word to describe the dross that’s bobbed around in the taxpayer-funded toilet bowl of the public
In 2020, Denmark criminalised foreign funding for mosques. In 2021, it drafted a law requiring that all sermons be translated and submitted to the state (although Anglican churches complained, it was obvious that the law targeted mosques delivering sermons in Arabic). In France, the intelligence service Renseignements Generaux (RG) monitors
In 1941 the Australian Labor Party came into office due to a dirty deal by cross-bench MPs. Its Prime Minister, John Curtin, was completely unsuited to the job (basically a fall-down drunk) – thrown into an international crisis with little idea of what to do, saved from himself by officials, and
I first wrote it half in jest, but the joke’s been getting more serious every time I repeat it: bulldoze the universities. They’re beyond redemption by now, frankly. That’s not going to happen, of course. Sadly. But prospective students still have the ultimate power: the power of
In 1941 the Australian Labor party came into office through a dirty deal by cross-bench MPs. Prime Minister John Curtin was completely unsuited to the job and thrown into an international crisis with little idea of what to do: he was saved from himself by officials and winning a ‘oncer’
In the US, Jews who traditionally tend to vote for the “progressive left” have had a rude awakening. To their shock, their “progressive” friends are choosing, en masse, to side with the baby-beheaders of Hamas. Whilst I understand their despair at seeing the people they though were on their side
Rita Mae Brown (not Albert Einstein) wrote that, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers probably never read Sudden Death — back then, he was probably still watching Sesame Street. He clearly never benefited from the Count’
The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference, the “anti-WEF” is billed as an “alternative to the talk-down centralising totalitarian globalist vision”. So it’s unsurprising that the champion of the defeat of Australia’s recent referendum, rightly described as a “referendum on identity politics”, should be one of the
US general and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower famously ordered the filming of the liberation of Nazi death camps, because, “I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt”. Eisenhower worried, rightly as
Driving into the nearest city (or, at least, the overgrown country town that passes for one in Tassie) this morning for an appointment, I was yet again confronted with the sight of tents pitched in parks and under bridges. Such a sight I’d rarely seen before in my five-odd
Like all politicians and similar hucksters, the truth comes out, not during the campaign or the hard sell, but once the vote is in and the deal is done. Politicians and used-car salesmen will grease you with all manner of snake oil: it’s only when they’ve got your
In a rare outbreak of collective decency, six of Australia’s former prime ministers have issued an unprecedented letter of support for Israel, and condemnation of Hamas and anti-Semitism. Tellingly, one conspicuously declined. Also tellingly, “pro-Palestine” advocates “condemned” the letter. But first, the good stuff. Six former prime ministers have
It’s disgusting and nauseating, but not exactly surprising, to see the hateful extremists of the Greens proudly marching alongside Muslims chanting “Gas the Jews!” and salivating over the murder of thousands of Israelis. They’re the Greens, after all. Extremism, from Stalinism to Islamic fanaticism, is in their bitter
In what would surely stand as the worst agreement since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Australian Greens are agitating for a formal coalition with Labor. Anthony Albanese should enter into a formal coalition with the Greens, sign a public power-sharing deal with Adam Bandt and promote Greens MPs to cabinet if
The one thing that can be said for the so-called “battery of the nation” is that at least it doesn’t burst into unstoppable flames, like the other ones. Otherwise, though, the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project is just another green elephant. The buggers are breeding like rabbits, sustained
