AUS Politics
Bruce Lehrmann Comes Out, Legal Guns Blazing
Never have an inquiry, as the saying goes, unless you know in advance what it will find. But when a government commissions an inquiry and then keeps its findings secret for months, you can be certain that it found something they may or may not have expected, but don’t
Albo Is an Arse
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Why Are You Paying Attention?
The “Indigenous Voice” referendum campaign is collapsing around the ears of the “Yes” side — and they’re shrieking blame at everyone but themselves. For months — ever since PM Anthony Albanese unveiled the referendum question — the poll momentum has been steadily downward. The last polls indicated Victoria as the lone Mainland
What’s Happening Across the Ditch Today
Once again, the difference between a conspiracy theory and reality turns out to be just a matter of waiting. From vaccine passports to 15-minute cities, every time the media-political class labels something a “conspiracy theory”, you can bet good money that it’ll take a couple of months, tops, before
Do You Want the Narratives of Aus History or the Facts? Pt 2
In the previous post, I looked at how Australian history, in the popular imagination and in academic circles, is dominated by narratives that are too often spun out of little but outraged assertion and fanciful interpretation. On the other hand, careful examination of primary sources, many of which are only
More Needs to Be Done
Kate Fitz-Gibbon Kate is Professor and Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Her research is in the area of family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, youth justice and the effects of homicide law and sentencing reform in Australian and international jurisdiction. Marie Segrave Marie is
Like We Should Make Fun of NZ
As I asked recently, Can NZ join a military pact without having a military to speak of? I was referring, of course, to current talks between the Chris Hipkins and Anthony Albanese, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, with a view to New Zealand
Do You Want the Narratives of Aus History or the Facts? Pt 1.
Academic historians are an odd bunch. Especially in Australia. They’re all too ready to write up fairy-stories and garbled oral legends as “history”, but not much interested, it seems, in actual, documented, primary sources. For instance, peer-reviewed Australian journals cite the “memories” of an Aboriginal stockman in the Northern
Injunction Filed over Covid Jabs
dailytelegraph.co.nz Proceedings seeking an injunction to stop the use of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid jab products in Australia have been adjourned, as the court timetables the case towards a hearing. The case centres around the failure of the two companies to obtain a GMO licence for their
They Deserve to Be Replaced by AI
G/O Media, owner of clickbait sites “news” like Gizmodo, Jezebel and The Root recently came up with a unique response to a strike by its writers: it announced mass layoffs and writers to be replaced by AI Chatbots. To which wags responded: “How will we tell the difference?” It’
He Who Shall Not Be Named
If you’re an Australian of a certain age, you’ll remember when Queensland was a byword for corruption and police brutality. But the “Moonlight State” has long been left in the shade by Dandrewstan, Victoria. As we saw during the anti-lockdown protests, Victoria Police have got the whole brutality
‘EVS Are a Bit Shite’, #31
Imagine if a service station could randomly refuse to refill your car. Welcome to yet another entry in the very lengthy ledger of why EVs are a bit shite. Queensland risks putting the brakes on the transition to electric vehicles if a state-owned energy company is given the power to
Bulldozing a Forest to Save the Planet
When Heather du Plessis-Allan laughed in the face of a spoilt-brat “Climate Striker”, she was only saying out loud what we all know: these people are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the planet. It’s impossible, after all, not to notice just how selective the Climate Cult’s
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The Comedy Relief of the Alliance [updated]
The closeness of the Australia-New Zealand relationship is a long-standing fact of both nations’ history, going back to Cook’s first voyage in 1768-71. The two nations went to world war together as the ANZACs. But, under its Labour government especially, the reliability of New Zealand as a defence partner