In 1971, Labor leader Gough Whitlam became the first Australian political leader to visit a communist nation, Maoist China. Never mind that the Cultural Revolution — which claimed up to 25 million lives and destroyed three-quarters of China’s cultural heritage — was still raging. Like most Western leftists, Whitlam cultivated
In news that surprises absolutely no-one, Optus’ chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has quit. The spectacular resignation follows an even more spectacular outage recently, which cut off more than 10 million Australians from phone and internet services. The outage affected everything from banking to emergency communications. The Melbourne suburban
Let’s not beat about the bush, here: ‘anti-Zionist’ is the most bullshit gambit since the old ‘I’m not racist, but…’ Just as you know the ‘but…’ is the opening for the most racist tripe imaginable, ‘anti-Zionist’ is just the mandatory rhetorical fig-leaf Jew-haters have
As I wrote recently, Australia’s legal elites seem determined to prove beyond all reasonable doubt what a colossal conga-line of asses they really are. First, there was the pro-Hamas “open letter” peddled by a cretinous collective of legal scholars, activists and lawyers. The High Court really upped
Taking over from Waleed Aly as the go-to poster-boy for Islamic terror apologism, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni has been getting a pretty sweet gig from the taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda collective national broadcaster, the ABC. But, just who is the left-media’s latest Islamic
Text text “Kid Charlemagne” is my favourite song by Steely Dan, another marvelous band from the 1970s; second only to Mott The Hoople, of course. The song tells the story of a man with the rather grand sounding name of Augustus Owsley Stanley, a scion of a very prominent Kentucky
In politics, perceptions are critical. Especially bad ones. Once a negative public perception takes hold, it can be near-impossible to shake. Just ask former opposition leaders like Labor’s Simon Crean, or the Liberal’s Brendan Nelson. Australian PM Anthony Albanese is finding that out the hard way, as
David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
“If the bell tolls for Israel, it won’t just toll for Israel, it will toll for all mankind,” Bob Hawke once said. It’s a sad reminder of just how far the Labor Party has slid into the moral abyss that Hawke’s moral clarity has been replaced by
In a seemingly bizarre response to the out-of-control spiral of anti-Semitism across the globe, the Biden administration has announced that its priority is… “tackling Islamophobia”. Similarly, when Jews were attacked in Caulfield, Melbourne’s Jewish heartland, Foreign Minister Penny Wong wittered about “Islamophobia”. But such responses aren’
Sir Mark Oliphant has long been a darling of the Australian left. Not only was he a pioneering nuclear physicist, but he was also tacitly blackballed by the Americans and the Menzies government in the 50s (call it an early form of shadowbanning). Nothing was more calculated to endear someone
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Despite its upper-class and aristocratic origins in the UK and US, golf in New Zealand has for most of
The Covid pandemic was a litmus test. Ever wondered who, should real fascism come to your country, would click their heels and salute the Dear Leader? Covid let you know. October 7 was a litmus test, too: a litmus test of basic decency. Everyone likes to brag that they would
“If you build it,” the famous line from Field of Dreams goes, “They will come.” Or, more accurately, if you put out a bowl of sugar, you’re gonna get ants. And if you put out a gargantuan, overflowing pot of taxpayer’s money, you’re going to attract every
Some years ago, the ABC featured neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell on one of its interminable “panel discussions”. ABC management purported to be so concerned by what Cottrell might say, that they put the program on a ten-second delay. Fast-forward a few years, and they’re giving “pro-Palestine”
