Back in 1999, I voted “Yes” in the Australian Republican referendum. In hindsight, I’m glad I was wrong and so many more of my fellow citizens were wiser than I was, back then. In the years since, I’ve come to realise the peculiar wisdom of Australia’s (and
What, exactly, is Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology trying to hide? That the BOM is indeed trying to cover up something is the inescapable conclusion from its relentless secrecy and determined obfuscation. For three years, the BOM fought scientist Dr John Abbott tooth and nail over an FOI request to
As Australia’s economy sinks deeper and deeper into the mire, the Albanese government’s training wheels are spinning and going nowhere. Just digging us in harder. As for Anthony Albanese himself? Mr 32% is coming across as clueless as his Arts grad Treasurer. As Australia’s infrastructure teeters on
Get ready for the spiciest defo case in years. If NSW MP Alex Greenwich goes ahead with his vilification case against Mark Latham, it’ll only escalate what should have been long consigned to the dustbin of the history of silly, nasty Twitter fights. Latham is not exactly known for
Back in the day, Robert Muldoon used to joke that Kiwis moving to Australia raised the IQ of both nations. It was a great one-liner, but it was also a cheap play to the parochial peanut gallery. It especially helped Muldoon paper over an embarrassing fact: Australia was carrying the
The plutocratic Establishment is planning to blitz long-suffering Australians with a multi-million dollar splurge of advertising for the “Yes” side of the “Voice” referendum in Australia. As well they might: for all their public show of confidence, the latest Roy Morgan polling shows that the referendum is in deep trouble.
A senior Victorian lawyer is highlighting what many of us already knew: an “Indigenous Voice” will be a lawyers’ picnic, and legal supporters are backing it precisely out of such self-interest. Tacitly, as well, the issue is highlighting the problems inherent in accepting the public pronouncements of professional bodies as
Food bills soaring, electricity prices going through the roof at the same time as blackouts increase, housing crisis getting worse, nearly a million more migrants imported for cheap labour, stoking racial division, government spending surging, debt ballooning… … and now, a push to boost bennies by over a third. Tell me
When Lidia Thorpe went on a raging, racist rampage of abuse outside a Melbourne strip joint, some commented that it was a preview of what the “Voice” in action would look like. They were more right than they knew. Lidia Thorpe’s mother, cousins and political allies are angling for
Some years ago, in my previous life as a graphic designer, I was tasked with preparing a website for a client who ran a male escort agency. It was all very tasteful stuff — the client made clear that their’s wasn’t some kind of sleazy Grindr knockoff. In fact,
Whenever the legacy media and climate alarmists prattle about “record temperatures”, they rarely bother to qualify their hysteria. Understandably, really: because they’re invariably talking about differences in the tenths, if not hundredths of degrees. After all, who’s going to be overly panicked if the media were to truthfully
Hoo, boy: they sure breed ’em different in the the Greens. Just days after ex-Green Lidia Thorpe’s racist, sexist tirade outside a Melbourne strip club, it emerges that the Greens are knowingly harbouring a pro-Nazi pedophile and incest sympathiser. As the NZ legacy media yet again launch a jihad
H G Wells was no doubt a pretty smart fellow. He was especially knowledgeable about history, which is why his science fiction was so often prescient. Yet, Wells was also in many ways a living endorsement of Orwell’s observation that intelligent people could often believe very stupid things. After
Here’s the funniest headline you’ll read all week: “IBAC delivers blow to Daniel Andrews’ integrity”. The joke, of course, is pretending that Andrews had any integrity in the first place. The biggest clown in this whole circus is Dictator Dan himself, strutting about and pretending that an “educational
Well, it only took them over three days, but finally the ABC has run one — count it! One! — piece on Lidia Thorpe’s strip club scrag fight. And, just as I joked, they only did it once they’d figured out a way to make her the victim. Prime Minister
Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on
