As William Blake so perceptively wrote, “A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent”. He might well have been thinking of Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster. As the legacy media will, even when it’s reporting the truth, the ABC misleads by omission and
I vividly remember when I first realised what a fatuous pile of virtue-signalling the whole charade of “Welcome to Country”/“Traditional Acknowledgement” really is. Which was about the first time I encountered it. It was over twenty years ago — of course, it was in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy,
There’s an old saying that you should never criticise a farmer while you’re eating. Which is not entirely true, of course: like any lobby group, farmers are just as open to criticism as any other. Even in the 1940s, Groucho Marx grumbled that “those fake rustics manage to
Seven years ago, Tasmania faced an energy and environmental crisis. Now, another one is looming. In 2016, the state’s network of dams dropped to precipitously low levels. The reason was two-fold: an unusually dry winter meant that the dams were less full than usual; but coupled to that was
At a time when Australia is in a dire housing crisis, with a critical shortage of capacity to build new houses, only a fool or a shyster would set about importing a million more people. Yet, that’s exactly what the Albanese government is doing. And the Business Council of
Back in 1987, John Howard described his chances of a comeback as “Lazarus with a triple bypass”. Howard had suffered a humiliating defeat against Bob Hawke and seemed done for good with politics. Less than a decade later, he went on to become Australia’s longest-serving PM. Could Tony Abbott
As recently revealed, while PM Anthony Albanese is publicly down the push for an Aboriginal Treaty and reparations, behind the scenes, the party’s national conference is red hot for both. Similarly, while Labor promised during the election campaign to maintain Australia’s strict border control, party activists are relentlessly
PM Anthony Albanese and the Yes campaign are in frantic damage-control mode. Again. The exposure of the full text of the foundational document of the Indigenous Voice referendum, the so-called “Uluru Statement from Heart”, has revealed the real agenda behind the “Voice”. Instead of the single page of apparently (but
The messenger-shooting continues in the ACT, in the wake of the explosive inquiry that led to the resignation of its top prosecutor. The Sofronoff inquiry made findings of serious misconduct of DPP Shane Drumgold during his prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins. Rather than be
One of the great comic creations of the last fifty years was Rik Mayall’s “Rick”, one of the four student housemates of The Young Ones. Rick is a shrewdly drawn instance of the perpetual archetype of the middle-class leftist: parroting the slogans of radical leftism whilst remaining utterly, selfishly
The greatest problem facing centre and right-of-centre voters across the Western world is finding a clear point of difference between major parties. Supposedly conservative parties today only seem to offer an alternative of left, rather than far-over-the-cliff left. In Australia, we’ve long dubbed them “Laborals”. Americans have their “RINOs”
Thankfully, the Indigenous Voice referendum seems unstoppably headed for defeat. Australians, sensibly, are increasingly revolting against the idea of turning Australia into an apartheid state, with Constitutionally-mandated racial separatism. If the chaos unleashed in Western Australia by that state’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act isn’t warning enough, Australians just
Australia’s spiciest defo case is slowly grinding its way through the NSW courts. As I’ve written previously, a flamboyantly homosexual MP has taken one of Australia’s most notorious political bruisers to court. All over a tweet graphically describing gay sex. When I first wrote about this, I
In 1999, Australian lawyer and journalist Paul Chadwick warned that, “All roads from a so-called independent statutory tribunal lead back through a parliament to a cabinet room”. Chadwick was speaking particularly of perennial issue of governments attempting to impose tighter control on media and information, but the same principle applies
Is Australia on the verge of dodging a very nasty bullet? It looks like it, but campaigners for the No case in the Indigenous Voice referendum are warning against complacency as opinion polls continue to plummet. For the first time, support for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice has fallen below
