The 1996 documentary Rats in the Ranks showed that local government politics can be as vicious and brutal as anything played out in Washington, Canberra or Wellington. Here in Tasmania, we’re seeing the current culture war blitz de jeur being played out every bit as hard as anywhere else.
Few things showed just how ridiculously hyper-politicised the entire Covid pandemic really was than the Ivermectin saga. Both “sides” of the debate were at fault: to some extent, the rabidly pro-Ivermectin lobby are just as hyper-partisan as the antis. But the anti-Ivermectin apparatchiks — which includes not just the mainstream media
Whoever heard of drag queens in school libraries five years ago? Suddenly, they’re everywhere. There’s a reason for that. In 2019, Queer Theory academic and drag queen Harris Kornstein published a paper advocating “a drag pedagogy”. Kornstein explicitly stated that the purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour, which
It appears that Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers have made the same mistake as the Liberals: taking their traditional base for granted. Where the Liberals have deserted traditional conservatives, Labor have for even longer abandoned the blue-collar working-class. This is nowhere more apparent than in last week’s budget. And
When I returned to university to study journalism, it was quite an eye-opening process. I’m not just talking about the blatant left-wing bias of so many of the lecturers, who would spend entire lectures spouting conspiracies about Evil Rupert Murdoch and promoting “journalism through a Marxist lens”. No, what
There’s a certain irony in elites finger-wagging we hoi polloi about “disinformation”. After all, they’re the ones telling us that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”. Or funding the demented Kate Hannah prattling that healthy food and little blond girls are “right-wing extremism” and rewarding a creepy
It seems too good to be true: a Labor Treasurer delivering a budget surplus. It would, after all, be the first time that’s happened in nearly 40 years. Like all such fairy stories, if it sounds too good to be true, well, it kinda sorta isn’t… not wholly
You know, I don’t wholly dispute those welfare advocates who claim that the dole is difficult to live on. Seven hundred dollars a fortnight ($850 with rent assistance) isn’t a lot of money, for sure. But surely the point is that it’s not meant to be? After
There was a good reason Dame Edna Everage hailed from the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds. Melbourne was, after all, the home of her creator. Like Australia’s beloved television family The Sullivans, Barry Humphries grew up in the comfortably middle-class suburb of Camberwell in the 1930s. Dame Edna was
The Sofronoff Inquiry into the handling of Brittany Higgins’ failed rape accusations just keeps on delivering. On the fourth day of questioning, the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions was squirming harder and faster than ever. On Wednesday, he sensationally claimed that there was a “political conspiracy” to stop the case
State by state, the Australian Liberals seem locked in a battle to see who can make their branch of the party the most un-electable. It’s almost as if these clowns want to lose. Tasmania is the last remaining Liberal holdout — for now. The prospect of that continuing just got
The state Liberals parties really are locked into a race to the bottom to see who can make themselves the most unelectable. Yesterday saw a neck-and-neck battle for the wooden spoon between Victoria and Tasmania. Tasmania looked early losers, with Jeremy Rockliff’s government, the only remaining Liberal government in
Did anyone vote to import more than a million people in just the next few years? Did Anthony Albanese even once mention during the election that Australia would grow by more than the entire population of Auckland, or Adelaide, in just five years? But, not just Big, but Mega Australia
Citizens of Rockhampton gathered for a Traditional Acknowledgement of their own, this week. In what may be called a smoking-out ceremony, they paid their respects to local criminals, past, present and emerging. It was quite the Welcome to Rough Justice. Police are calling for calm as tensions over crime reach
In Dictator Dan’s Victoria, the thoroughly-corrupted police force set out to “Get Pell” (their own words) long before a single complaint had ever been made against the late Cardinal. Then they insisted on proceeding with a brief of evidence Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions twice rejected. The result
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Sick and Tired: Casting a Long Shadow is the April 2023 report of the Australian government’s Inquiry into Long COVID and Repeated COVID Infections. Despite providing a thorough, 239-page overview of the condition generally referred to as Long COVID, and
