When Mitt Romney tried to take Barack Obama to task over the degrading of America’s blue-water fleet, Obama responded with his trademark smirking ignorance and the left-media lapped it up. “We also have fewer horses and bayonets,” haw-haw-hawed President Smug. The media seals honked a chorus of approval. Fast-forward
To paraphrase Clarence Darrow, I have never wished a private enterprise to fail, but I have smiled at a great many financial reports. Especially when they concern painfully woke billionaires whose latest “renewable” scheme has gone bust. A fall out between two of the nation’s richest men has led
Nothing quite brings out the true face of the “tolerance and kindness” mob than the death of someone they adamantly refused to tolerate. Almost as soon as the death of Cardinal George Pell was announced, the Australian left turned into a squirming, orgiastic herd of pigs joyously rolling in the
Well, I guess we can thank Michael Mansell and his fellows of the Paleface-GimmeGimme tribe for doing us a favour of sorts. Mansell’s unhinged, grasping greed is showing exactly what an “Indigenous Voice” will be like in action: a never-ending concatenation of whingeing and demands for more and more
Satirical Twitter news account, EZFKA recently posted the headline, History made as Australian Financial Review goes one full day without shilling for mass migration. Out of the mouths of satirical Tweeters oft comes wisdom. The Fin Review, mouth-organ of big business, has indeed been constantly agitating for more and more
There’s a very good reason that Australians are so averse to changing our Constitution: politicians keep asking them to. Tony Abbott’s most devastating come-back to the 1991 Republic referendum was simple and brutal: Do you trust politicians? We didn’t then, and we do so even less, now.
Karl Popper, in a much-misunderstood and abused footnote to his The Open Society and Its Enemies, wrote of the “paradox of tolerance”. It’s not a very clear or well-developed argument, but its essence is that, if a society extends tolerance without limit, that will inevitably lead to tolerating the
The legacy media got so addicted to whipping up hateful mobs against whoever is their latest Goldstein that they clearly thought they were untouchable. Emmanuel Goldstein, in Orwell’s 1984, is “the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity… the sight or even the thought of Goldstein
For some unknown reason – most likely the slavish faddishness of the Western left – the term “First Nations” has suddenly come into vogue as the politically correct collective noun for Australian Aborigines. It’s nonsense of course – even more than its original use in Canada. Whatever its merit there, the simple,
As Clive Hamilton’s Silent Invasion warns, China has and is systematically insinuating its network of spying and influence at all levels of Australian society. At the risk of sounding like a McCarthyite Cold Warrior, the communist giant’s tentacles reach from local government, and community associations, to the highest
The Chinese Communist Party pumped massive resources into influencing the last Australian election. From allegedly timing staged foreign policy moves in the Pacific to embarrass the Coalition government, to trying to bankroll candidates in the election. Labor candidates. CCP-linked figures had also been caught out handing literal shopping bags of
The whole Bruce Lehrmann/Brittany Higgins saga has been hopelessly politicised from the instant the story broke. In no small part at the instigation of Higgins herself, who by her own admissions timed her media appearances, often at the expense of answering police requests, for maximum political impact. Even before
Dr Kerryn Phelps is the last person I’d have expected to be a far-right conspiracy theorist, I have to say. Phelps is, after all, the prototypical “Teal”, a climate-bothering, Harbourside-mansion green-lefty, celebrity lesbian and former president of the Australian Medical Association. Yet here she is, peddling right-wing, white-supremacist, dangerous
You can always tell when it’s summer in Australia (even when it’s as miserable and dull a one as this): the cricket’s on the telly, the news starts hawking luridly coloured weather maps to try and frighten us, and the lefties are whinging about Australia Day again.
Timing is everything in comedy — and in politics, too. There’s never a good time for a government to belt its most productive sector with what I call “puffy pants taxes”*. But there are definitely worse times to do so. Such as when said sector is on the brink of
