With just a couple of months to go before the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, the “Yes” campaign is in serious trouble. That’s despite a relentless government campaign in favour, millions in funding, and the backing of every elite institution from big business to sport. No wonder the Guardian is so
Well, Anthony Albanese stands behind his Mean Girls, you have to give him that. Or maybe it’s just because Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong threatened to wedgie him in the parliamentary toilets, or else. Whatever, Albanese is standing firm behind Gallagher despite pretty much everyone conceding that she misled
For Australian PM Anthony Albanese, the parliamentary winter break surely can’t come fast enough. Not just a chance for “Airbus Albo” to jet off yet again to sunnier climes, but a desperate chance to try and escape the louring political storm clouds breaking over his head. Apparently hoping to
Proving my adage that the dogs of political scandal are indiscriminate pack-hunters, the Brittany Higgins whirlwind continues to wreak havoc all round in the trailer park of Canberra politics. Anthony Albanese’s government is getting a mauling that shows no sign of letting up as the parliamentary sitting week begins.
For decades, Western governments have known that they faced a looming demographic tsunami of Boomer codgers swamping health and aged care systems. The electoral cycle being what it is, decades of governments have chosen to do sod-all about it and just keep kicking the can down the road for somebody
The most basic rule of economics is supply and demand. When supply exceeds demand, prices drop. When demand exceeds supply, prices rise. Currently, demand for housing in Australia far outstrips supply. Yet, everyone acts as if prices shouldn’t be rising. And rise, they have: stratospherically. Consequently, we have a
The legislative framework for Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda machine national broadcaster specifies that it must “provide within Australia innovative and comprehensive broadcasting services of a high standard”. Nowhere in the act does it say that ‘the taxpayer has to keep paying for dreck no one cares about’. Yet, that’
Sometimes I hate being right. I don’t claim to be more than a moderately informed observer of economics, but even to me it seems pretty obvious that deep economic trouble lies in our near future. It gives me no joy to find that far better informed economic observers agree
As I’ve written before, politicians unleash the dogs of political scandal at their peril. Time and again, politicians have got carried away with trying to tear down their opponents, only to find the frenzied pack turning on themselves. It’s kind of an occupational hazard, I guess, when you’
The political fallout from the Brittany Higgins saga just keeps barreling on. Having fatally wounded one government, it’s now turning on the next government — whose political machinations are being laid bare. A raft of leaked text messages show that, despite their repeated denials, senior Labor figures, up to the
Jeremy Moses Associate Professor in International Relations Sian Troath, Postdoctoral fellow University of Canterbury Defence Minister Andrew Little’s recent announcement that New Zealand would be “willing to explore” participation in military technology sharing – or “pillar two” – under the AUKUS security arrangement has already divided opinion. Proponents have argued participation
The backlash against rainbow groomerism is gathering pace in the sleepy island of Tasmania. And it’s members of the lesbian and gay communities who are taking up the baton. LGB Tasmania kicked off an awareness-raising campaign on Tuesday by installing a billboard at Glenorchy, Tasmania, on the Brooker Highway.
The ability of apparently rational, intelligent adults to systematically blind themselves to the glaring obvious should never be underestimated. Especially when it comes to religion — and the most fact-immune religion currently plaguing the Earth is the Cult of Climate. Climate Cultists are almost uniformly and resolutely immune to facts which
The Long March through the Institutions (LMTTI) has, to give it due credit, been one of the most stunningly successful political movements in modern history. It’s been so successful that it’s conquered nearly every institution of Western civilisation — while almost all of its victims remain completely ignorant of
Is the “Welcome to Country” scam finally running dry? It’s had a good run, this “ancient ceremony” that was invented in 1976. But, in a classic tale of hubris, just when it’s become all-but-ubiquitous, the racket may finally be going broke. Not just because Australians are thoroughly sick
Australian PM Anthony Albanese’s honeymoon period has come to an end. Which is hardly surprising, based on years of polling trends for new PMs on each side of the political aisle. So far, the polling drop is ominous rather than calamitous: but then, Kevin Rudd soared far higher in
