Is the “Indigenous Voice” referendum dead? It’s far too soon to get our hopes up, but the racist proposed Constitutional amendment is certainly gasping for breath, right now. Its biggest problem is that it’s suffering the same issue as the 1999 Republic referendum: the more the Australian people
It looks like the penny has finally dropped for the federal Liberal party, at least. Peter Dutton finally seems to have realised that conservatives don’t win votes by aping extremist green-left wokery. First, Dutton made the brave, decent decision to oppose the racist “Indigenous Voice” referendum, over the whining,
Appalled TV viewers in Britain have inundated the broadcasting regulator Ofcom with complaints, following blatantly racist comments by a mediocre black actress during King Charles’ coronation. The only surprise is that it wasn’t on the usual suspect, the BBC, but commercial broadcaster ITV. ITV has been hit with 4,
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia,
Taking the job of opposition leader immediately after an election defeat is nearly always a thankless task. It’s a poison chalice of dire poll numbers while the new government basks in its honeymoon phase. Especially when you’re the arch-enemy of the media and the chattering classes, a conservative.
Today, in questions everyone already knows the answer to: is water wet? Does fire burn? And, was the ACT chief prosecutor’s pursuit of rape allegations too politically motivated? ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been prone to gibbering about “political conspiracies” supposedly between the Australian Federal Police
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Hapless Chris Hipkins is spending taxpayer money to advertise to New Zealanders living in Australia that life is better there now they can get citizenship – rather than trying to persuade them to come home. What the Prime Minister should have realised is that Australia, in
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
