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
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
