Arts-nobbling catfights are almost always pass-the-popcorn entertainment. Not least because they end up exposing only the sheer vacuity, simple-minded greed, and schoolgirl-bitchiness of the pseudo-intellectual elite. A great case in point was the “Demidenko Affair”. Although the putative expose of the affair was a young Helen Dale pretending to be
Once again, a court in Australia has endorsed magic — and a mining billionaire must be wondering why he’s bothered showering largesse on Aboriginal communities. Billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is considering his options after losing an appeal to draw water from a river sacred to traditional owners to irrigate his
I don’t think Marcia Langton has quite got the hang of this “threat” thing. As “Indigenous Voice” proponents increasingly resort to the only argument they know — bellowing RACIST! at anyone who disagrees with them, Langton has come up with perhaps the most welcome threat in recent history. If we
Well, the federal Liberal Party has finally found its shrivelled, atrophied testicles on one issue, at least. In a potentially fatal blow to PM Anthony Albanese’s signature issue, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has finally announced that the Liberals will formally oppose the “Voice” referendum. The announcement ends months of
Remember when Hillary Clinton called half the voters in America “deplorables”? “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic.” Boy, that worked out well for her, didn’t it? But you can hardly blame Clinton for thinking that shouting insults at voters was a winning strategy: it’s been just about all the
So, where are we at on the slippery slope into Trans World, today? We’ve gone long past “Use our pronouns or else!”, and “Allow minors to dance for us in drag”, and beyond even “Let teachers choose your kid’s gender”. Today, we’re skidding merrily into the “Re-Education
How long before Australians start booing the staple ritual of modern wokeism, the made-up “Welcome to Country” nonsense? You can’t go anywhere, to anything, in Australia today without being subjected to this mind-numbing garbage. From sporting matches, to school assemblies, even daily classes and plane flights, inevitably feature some
Excuse me while I quietly chill the chambers and sling a bag of popcorn in the microwave. Australia’s unis are going broke. Oh, dear. How sad. Universities are swimming in a river of red ink following the financial market downturn, and the nine institutions that have disclosed 2022 results
Now, I’m not about to go and call the Australian Labor Party the “Paedo Party”, but… every single politician convicted of child sex offences in Australian history has been a Labor politician. Just sayin’. (Tasmanian MP Terry Martin is technically listed as an “independent”, but he was a long-standing
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied science and grazing animal management. He started adult life believing all government health advice. He ate minimal butter, cheese and salt and chose lots of vegetarian options, including fake meat. Health for him and his family suffered. Slowly he came to his senses, returned
If you wonder why the Liberals in Australia can’t even win against a corrupt authoritarian like “Dictator Dan” Andrews, you only have to look at the quality of their leadership. If Matthew Guy was a shiver in search of a spine, John Pesutto is a cold dribble from a
The Western elite are more out of touch with ordinary people than at any time perhaps since the Sun King swanned around Versailles. On few issues, though, are they more out of touch than on immigration. Governments on both sides of parliament, NGOs, universities, big business — all solidly line up
When W. B. Yeats wrote that “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”, he might well have been gazing into a crystal ball to the last few decades of Western politics. The worst, whether the zealots of fundamentalist Islam, transgenderism or climate catastrophism, are
With the Perrottet government’s loss in NSW on the weekend, the Australian left have been cock-a-whoop that Australian has wall-to-wall Labor governments on the Mainland. Tasmania remains the sole exception with a Liberal government. The ABC in particular has scarce been able to contain its glee. “The Liberals are
It’s said that the only certainties are death and taxes, but Australians can add another to that list, now: soaring power bills. Anthony Albanese’s grubby deal with the zealots in the Greens will do nothing to change the trajectory of the global climate, but is guaranteed to send
