We’re constantly told that we need to import nearly a million more people into Australia every few years “for the economy”. We’re also told that we desperately need “skilled migrants”. So, why are we importing so many fruit pickers and Uber drivers? More to the point, how is
What on earth is Linda Burney doing, all day? What is the Gucci-wearing, multimillionaire “Aboriginal” Scotswoman actually doing in her portfolio of Indigenous Affairs? Because, apparently, she’s not doing her damned job. Ms Burney will tell the National Press Club the voice will be active and engaged under her
For a mob who spend so much time bleating about “tolerance”, “acceptance”, and “love”, the trans lobby sure are a violently intolerant lot. When Kellie-Jay Keen tried to speak in Hobart, it was little more than a warm-up for the lynch mob in Auckland a few days later. Not even
In a recent post, I pondered whether Anthony Albanese’s proposed online censor would punish politicians for their lies. Well, we have the answer to that one: as is too often the case, the political class are exempting themselves from the draconian rules they foist on we commoners. In a
Angela Shanahan Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years, The Spectator (British and Australian editions) for over 10 years, and formerly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times. mercatornet.
To quote the great Kanye West, “I ain’t sayin’ she a gold digger…” Brittany Higgins has lashed out at her former boss, Linda Reynolds, after the Liberal MP said she would ask the National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the commonwealth payment to her former staffer. To
Jennifer Curtin University of Auckland theconversation.com In 1865, my Irish-born great great grandparents travelled from Dunedin to Sydney to marry in St Mary’s Cathedral. Some 63 years later, my grandmother Mary also travelled to Australia to marry my grandfather Ted. He was a clerk with the Bank of
Anyone who still denies that Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster has become little more than a hopelessly-biased, inner-city left-wing collective, is either willfully blind or hopelessly ignorant. If nothing else gives the ABC’s bias away, consider the fact that its own management has to specifically and repeatedly remind its journalists
In a recent episode of what is surely the best sitcom of all time, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, degenerate businessman Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) delivers a pretty accurate lesson in the basics of inflation and recession. If only more of our chattering classes had a Frank Reynolds to
Ramesh Thakur Ramesh Thakur, a Brownstone Institute Senior Scholar, is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. brownstone.org Earlier this week, both houses of Australia’s Parliament adopted a resolution to hold a referendum on a
As Judith Collins once said, the more a man assures you of his honesty, the more closely you should watch your pockets. The same is doubly, triply, true of politicians who blatherskite about “integrity”. The Australian Greens, for instance, pontificate endlessly about “integrity” and “getting big money” out of politics
familyfirst.org.nz Article first published in the Australian earlier this year… Incidents of domestic violence and assault have plummeted by more than a third in Alice Springs since alcohol restrictions were put in place earlier this year, following outcry from locals demanding for months that the Territory government implement
Usually the state-sanctioned suicide enthusiasts at least wait until they’ve snuck through their medical suicide laws before they shove off down the slippery slope. Not in woke, wealthy, Canberra, though. They’re skidding off down the slippery slope before the ink’s even on the paper, let alone dry.
