There is very little I’ll credit the Albanese government for, but one faint praise I’ll damn them with is that at least they haven’t scuttled the AUKUS deal. In doing so, it’s swimming against some very powerful internal tides. After all, China was clearly hoping for
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Earlier this month, the Australian Government announced a A$15 million pilot program for mitochondrial donation, or, as it is sometimes called, “three-parent IVF”. In December 2021, Parliament passed Maeve’s Law, which permitted
There’s a great moment in James Cameron’s underrated classic, The Abyss, where Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is trying to convince the rest of the undersea drilling crew that she’s not some crazy paranoid seeing imaginary aliens. Crew member Alan “Hippy” Carnes (Todd Graff) chimes in his
Sorry, which party has a ‘woman problem’? If we’re to believe the legacy media (and who would?), it’s the coalition. Because, y’know, they refuse to patronise women as lesser achievers by imposing quotas – because everyone knows women can never succeed unless they have the boys in power
We don’t even have a referendum date for the “Indigenous Voice”, nor draft legislation, not even a government policy proposal — and already, the un-elected troughers of the Aboriginal Industry are telling the elected government what to do. Remember, these are the same people telling us, “it’s just an
Australia’s Productivity Commission, like New Zealand’s, is an independent statutory commission tasked with advising the government on “a range of economic, social and environmental issues affecting the welfare of Australians”. Ahead of an upcoming review into Australia’s performance, the inaugural head of the Productivity Commission, Gary Banks,
You know, for a mob who are forever banging on about “equity”, and caring for the world’s most vulnerable, the asylum-seeker fetishists seem awfully bent on giving a leg-up to determined law-breakers with the means of jumping over the backs of the world’s most wretched. Every time an
Every day, it seems, we learn something else we were right all along about the Covid pandemic — and that the Podia of Truth were lying through their teeth about. From the efficacy of Covid vaccines to the worse-than-uselessness of mask mandates to the lab-leak “racist conspiracy theory”, it seems that
New Zealand readers will be familiar with the routine promotion of a Stone Aged culture as some sort of cultural acme. In New Zealand, it’s the near-ubiquitous extolling of magic Maori-dom, to the point of the Maori Party literally claiming racial supremacy. In Australia, it’s the tiresome, fatuous
You can fool some of the people, some of the time, as the saying goes. But you can’t fool all of the people all the time — and the longer you try and keep the hoodwink up, the more people are likely to cotton on. Anthony Albanese’s ongoing attempt
You know, if the men in dresses and bearded ladies really wanted to convince us that they aren’t mentally ill, they could start by not being so batshit-crazy. And if they want to reassure us that they aren’t a threat to women, they might want to, y’know,
How lunar left do you have to be, to peeve off a bunch of flouncing flamers in sequined g-strings? Just ask Australia’s most petulant, screeching, taxpayer-funded, braindead white “Aboriginal”. Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has drawn condemnation after police removed her following a stunt at Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade
It’s been an interesting week in free speech versus cancel culture, here in Australia. While three separate incidents each garnered plenty of attention on their own, few people seem to have joined the dots and considered what they collectively mean for free speech. The clearest issue that two of
Anthony Albanese clearly learned nothing from the downfall of the Rudd-Gillard Labor government. First Rudd tried to ignite an “eat the rich” class war, then Gillard cynically and egregiously broke a clear election promise. Both exploded spectacularly. Rudd’s “mining tax” was predicated solely on the argument that “big miners
How did we get from “What I do in private is my own business” to “Look at my cock and balls, you bigots!” For some reason, supposedly gender-confused men seem to have a monomania for elbowing their way into women’s most private spaces. Spas, dressing rooms, toilets, showers… you
James Parker mercatornet.com James Parker was a gay rights’ activist. He now facilitates True Identity, an informal network that supports those struggling with sexuality & gender identity issues. February 2023 is the month where the LGBTQ+ juggernaut ramped up its attempt to convert our children and to destroy any
