Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
It’s becoming more and more obvious that last week’s neo-Nazi gatecrash of the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne was a grubby, politically-motivated stitch-up. From the very moment the LARPing edgelords in their silly masks were ushered through the police cordon and allowed to do their ooh, so
As Dutch provincial elections were the latest to show, people across the Western world are fed up with establishment politics. Because, on nearly every issue of substance, two-party systems have become a Tweedledum-Tweedledumber game of furious agreement with left-wing talking points. Few more so than on the brutal, misogynist assault
It’s rather noticeable that the “indigenous” culture-vultures on both sides of the Tasman show no inclination to actually live the authentic lives of the cultures they play-act at. Raiwiri Waititi is no sooner going to turn in his natty suits for a grass skirt and grub in the mud
Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Voluntary assisted dying in the Australian state of Victoria was legalised in 2017 and the first legal euthanasia took place on July 15, 2019. The legislation had succeeded despite bitter opposition. Perhaps MPs believed assurances from
As recently reported for The BFD, former Australian PM Paul Keating was back in the news last week. The very person who coined the phrase “Relevance Deprivation Syndrome” was doing his best to desperately try and claw back some relevance and at the same time earn his spot on the
If there’s one thing that women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s current speaking tour is proving beyond doubt, it’s that policing in Australia and New Zealand has become so deeply politically compromised that both are rapidly becoming police states. Hyperbole? Consider what a “police state” is: A
Clare Medical Journalist www.excessdeathstats.com On February 24th the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issued a release saying that there had been 15.1% more deaths than usual in Australia in 2022. Here’s what they said: “In 2022, there were 174,717 deaths that occurred by 30 November
As Australian authorities make the inexplicable decision to “repatriate” those who elected to fight for the most brutal Islamic regime in modern times (and in the wide playing field that’s Islamic brutality, that’s saying something), the hand-wringing bedwetters of the chattering classes trot out their standard bullshit. But
Even before the Covid pandemic hit, my son found himself doing his university degree online. Except that he wasn’t enrolled as an online student, he was an on-campus student. An ‘on-campus’ student who was lucky to have one hour a week on campus. One of the main reasons for
As the kerfuffle over the historical info boards on the Interislander ferries shows, the sort of person who is apt to describe themselves as ‘feminist, unionist, left-wing, pro-choice, cis-gender, disabled, Pakeha, pro-reindigenisation’ is uncomfortable with some facts about the “indigenous” culture she so fetishises. Most especially the undeniable fact that
Labor created a seemingly unstoppable Gargantua with the NDIS. Will the same people who birthed this all-consuming monstrosity have the courage, let alone the will, to put it out of our misery. The NDIS — National Disability Insurance Scheme — was just one of the many brain-fart policies of the Rudd-Gillard government.
As Thomas Sowell has said, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”. Well, not only intellectuals — Labor politicians are just as willfully ignorant. But then, as Anthony Albanese so amply demonstrates, socialist Labor politicians can’t even learn
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer, left alone to supervise the kids, is given a simple piece of advice: “Always do the opposite of what Bart says”. There are some people in life who are just like that. Their talent for being wrong and/or venal is so pronounced
There are few issues on which the elites are so monstrously out of touch than “climate action” and energy policy. As repeated surveys show, people around the world regularly rank climate change the last out of a list of concerns. Most only even pay lip-service because they’re constantly brow-beaten
Anne-Marie Grisogono, Adjunct professor, Flinders University Roger Bradbury, Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Elizabeth Williams, Senior Lecturer, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University Scott Vella, Researcher at CAP Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU National Security College, Australian National University Speaking
