The celebrity eco-crite is a grimly familiar phenomenon. You know the sort: the A-lister who bangs on about cutting emissions and reducing our ecological footprint — and uses their private jet to flit about their collections of mansions scattered around the globe. It’s not just celebrities, though. Scratch a climate
A NSW gold mine was ordered to shut down after some kangaroos drowned in a tailings dam. Greens demanded a stop put to a coal mine because it might kill some finches. Green activists lost their minds when a fishing trawler killed a single dolphin. Yet, when dozens of endangered
Poet A. D. Hope famously described Australia as a land of “five cities, like five teeming sores”. If Anthony Albanese has his way, it will be teeming sores from sea to shining sea. What little of Australia that isn’t buried under a “forest of windfarms” or “endless arrays of
As I wrote recently, wealthy Greens and Teal voters in the expensive suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne are quite happy for other people to pay to “save the planet”. Who cares if country people have to watch their environment be buried beneath, and I quote a Climate Cultist scientist, “Forests
Well, the spruikers of the Indigenous Voice referendum just keep on handing us more reasons to vote No. Whether it’s Marcia Langton’s “threat” that we’ll never hear another Welcome to Country, or Noel Pearson’s promise that he’ll “fall silent”, if the referendum is voted down,
Here’s an uncomfortable thought: every failed rape prosecution is, prima facie, a false accusation. Such a statement is guaranteed to enrage many, of course. Especially feminists, who love to bandy dodgy “statistics” that would have us believe that Australia is as dangerous for women as the Congo, where rape
As I asked recently: is the Climate Cult barking mad? We know they’re not stupid… well, not all of them. Some of them are very smart people. But they’d surely have to be out of their minds: how else could a scientist, an engineer even, say things like
Politics has been a tumultuous ride for both Pauline Hanson and Mark Latham. It’s just got a bit wilder, with Hanson sacking Latham as leader of her party in NSW. Mark Latham is no longer the leader of the NSW division of One Nation, after the party made the
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
