Post-election opposition leader is one of the most thankless jobs in politics. Almost always, it’s a poisoned chalice of party dysfunction and abysmal polling numbers. Who, after all, remembers Brendan Nelson, Billy Snedden or Bill Hayden? But Peter Dutton is proving to be made of sterner stuff. While still
mercatornet.com Having recently returned ‘down south’ from almost a year spent living and working in the Northern Territory, I could not be more opposed to the proposed voice to Parliament. Like many other Sydneysiders, I used to support the idea. I was persuaded by slick messaging from public figures,
All but trampling on Australian electoral law, the Albanese government has poured vast resources into the “Yes” campaign for the “Voice” referendum. Ever-eager to be on the woke side, so have big business, big sport and the entertainment industry. The “No” campaign has been left to hang. And, really, that’
Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America
We’re all paying for Victorians’ woke bankruptcy. That’s the grim fact of Australia’s most left-wing state and its Stockholm Syndrome obsession with “Dictator Dan”. While it’s tempting to laugh off Victoria’s black hole as a self-inflicted economic suicide by “Cucktorians”, the simple fact is that
There’s no such thing as a free lunch — and no such thing as free money. The cashed-up Boomers who thought they’d make a killing by feeding rooftop solar, subsidised by taxpayers, back into the grid soon came a gutser. Not only was the feed-in tariff taxable income, but,
Back in the early 90s, a near-decade of Labor government beggared the Victorian economy. It fell to the Kennett Liberal government to fix it, by slashing spending, and, in an extremely unpopular move, imposing a specific “Cain-Kirner Debt Tax”. In a twist on the socialist Labor motto, it was Labor
In his initial testimony to the Sofronoff inquiry, the Canberra chief prosecutor alleged that there was a “conspiracy” of interference in the Britanny Higgins rape claims. Shane Drumgold quickly walked back his claim under scrutiny, but the suspicion that there was indeed an extraordinary level of inappropriate interference in the
Is Stan Grant Australia’s very own “Jussie Smollett”? As you will recall, Smollett, the black American actor, became a figure of mockery with his lurid and wildly improbable claim of a “racist attack”. Smollett was later jailed for lying to police. We can nurse no such hope in the
Is there something in the water in Canberra? Or do idiots just naturally gravitate to the national capital? Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young famously confused TV drama Sea Patrol with a documentary on maritime border protection. Now, the ACT’s chief prosecutor has apparently confused a TV “reconstruction” with CCTV of
As recently reported by The BFD, Freedom of Information requests in New Zealand have revealed that “the government […] censorship is extending to its own regulators and […] even its lawyers”. “Hold my booster,” says the Australian government. In less than three years the federal government intervened at least 4213 times to
As I’ve reported for The BFD, Anthony Albanese’s “Indigenous Voice” referendum is in deep trouble. Successive polling shows support collapsing as voters confront the reality of inserting racial separatism into the Constitution. The referendum is on a trajectory to match the 1999 Republic referendum: despite across-the-board support from
mercatornet.com Australians need to know what is happening in the Australian Capital Territory. The ACT government is about to make a compulsory acquisition of Calvary Hospital. In 1979, Calvary Hospital began its good work at the invitation of the Commonwealth government. The lease is for 120 years. There is
Thirty years ago, a Labor government all-but bankrupted the state of Victoria. Against a torrent of hate and vilification from the left, Jeff Kennett and Alan Stockdale did the hard yards of rebuilding the state’s economy. And Victorians promptly elected another Labor government. In fact, Labor have run the
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Voters in every state or country with woke politicians at the wheel should follow unfolding developments in Australia’s capital. The government of the Australian Capital Territory – a self-governing jurisdiction with 430,000 people
