There are many good reasons to never listen to celebrities banging on about politics. For a start, they’re almost always terrified sheep: the shadow of cancel culture is ever but a tweet away, and every sleb is more than aware that their entire career hangs on studiously following The
For years, we Australians have been subject to the dreary fawning of the chattering classes, wishing that their countrymen would follow New Zealand’s lead. People who have their feet on the ground and skin in the game are advising that New Zealand is the last place we want to
Rebekah Barnett brownstone.org ‘30 minutes of truth bombs’ is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, last Wednesday 28 June. Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after public disagreements over the Party’s handling
Australia’s elite class really learned nothing from the pandemic years – least of all about China. Whether or not China engineered the virus, and whether or not it was deliberately released or leaked, the fact that China’s months of lies and cover-ups meant that the pandemic was far worse
Boy, Aborigines sure are a special bunch. Not only did they invent democracy and agriculture, as Bruce Pascoe would have us believe, but they’re also such magical, rarified beings that merely drawing a picture of them is an affront. When the Australian Financial Review published a cartoon that accurately
Look out, New Zealand — you’ve got a contender for the most childishly bitchy, bullying female authoritarian in power. At least our mean girl isn’t PM, though. But, as a senior minister, she’s still far too capable of embarrassing Australia on the world stage. Anthony Albanese’s office
Finally, Australia has a political leader with the gumption to say what everyone knows, but no-one is allowed to say: Australia needs nuclear energy. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has ramped up calls for nuclear power in Australia, casting the move as a way to avoid dependence on wind and
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
