Is Stan Grant Australia’s very own “Jussie Smollett”? As you will recall, Smollett, the black American actor, became a figure of mockery with his lurid and wildly improbable claim of a “racist attack”. Smollett was later jailed for lying to police. We can nurse no such hope in the
Is there something in the water in Canberra? Or do idiots just naturally gravitate to the national capital? Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young famously confused TV drama Sea Patrol with a documentary on maritime border protection. Now, the ACT’s chief prosecutor has apparently confused a TV “reconstruction” with CCTV of
As recently reported by The BFD, Freedom of Information requests in New Zealand have revealed that “the government […] censorship is extending to its own regulators and […] even its lawyers”. “Hold my booster,” says the Australian government. In less than three years the federal government intervened at least 4213 times to
As I’ve reported for The BFD, Anthony Albanese’s “Indigenous Voice” referendum is in deep trouble. Successive polling shows support collapsing as voters confront the reality of inserting racial separatism into the Constitution. The referendum is on a trajectory to match the 1999 Republic referendum: despite across-the-board support from
mercatornet.com Australians need to know what is happening in the Australian Capital Territory. The ACT government is about to make a compulsory acquisition of Calvary Hospital. In 1979, Calvary Hospital began its good work at the invitation of the Commonwealth government. The lease is for 120 years. There is
Thirty years ago, a Labor government all-but bankrupted the state of Victoria. Against a torrent of hate and vilification from the left, Jeff Kennett and Alan Stockdale did the hard yards of rebuilding the state’s economy. And Victorians promptly elected another Labor government. In fact, Labor have run the
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Voters in every state or country with woke politicians at the wheel should follow unfolding developments in Australia’s capital. The government of the Australian Capital Territory – a self-governing jurisdiction with 430,000 people
Is the “Indigenous Voice” referendum dead? It’s far too soon to get our hopes up, but the racist proposed Constitutional amendment is certainly gasping for breath, right now. Its biggest problem is that it’s suffering the same issue as the 1999 Republic referendum: the more the Australian people
It looks like the penny has finally dropped for the federal Liberal party, at least. Peter Dutton finally seems to have realised that conservatives don’t win votes by aping extremist green-left wokery. First, Dutton made the brave, decent decision to oppose the racist “Indigenous Voice” referendum, over the whining,
Appalled TV viewers in Britain have inundated the broadcasting regulator Ofcom with complaints, following blatantly racist comments by a mediocre black actress during King Charles’ coronation. The only surprise is that it wasn’t on the usual suspect, the BBC, but commercial broadcaster ITV. ITV has been hit with 4,
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia,
Taking the job of opposition leader immediately after an election defeat is nearly always a thankless task. It’s a poison chalice of dire poll numbers while the new government basks in its honeymoon phase. Especially when you’re the arch-enemy of the media and the chattering classes, a conservative.
Today, in questions everyone already knows the answer to: is water wet? Does fire burn? And, was the ACT chief prosecutor’s pursuit of rape allegations too politically motivated? ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been prone to gibbering about “political conspiracies” supposedly between the Australian Federal Police
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Hapless Chris Hipkins is spending taxpayer money to advertise to New Zealanders living in Australia that life is better there now they can get citizenship – rather than trying to persuade them to come home. What the Prime Minister should have realised is that Australia, in
The 1996 documentary Rats in the Ranks showed that local government politics can be as vicious and brutal as anything played out in Washington, Canberra or Wellington. Here in Tasmania, we’re seeing the current culture war blitz de jeur being played out every bit as hard as anywhere else.
