The legacy media got so addicted to whipping up hateful mobs against whoever is their latest Goldstein that they clearly thought they were untouchable. Emmanuel Goldstein, in Orwell’s 1984, is “the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity… the sight or even the thought of Goldstein
For some unknown reason – most likely the slavish faddishness of the Western left – the term “First Nations” has suddenly come into vogue as the politically correct collective noun for Australian Aborigines. It’s nonsense of course – even more than its original use in Canada. Whatever its merit there, the simple,
As Clive Hamilton’s Silent Invasion warns, China has and is systematically insinuating its network of spying and influence at all levels of Australian society. At the risk of sounding like a McCarthyite Cold Warrior, the communist giant’s tentacles reach from local government, and community associations, to the highest
The Chinese Communist Party pumped massive resources into influencing the last Australian election. From allegedly timing staged foreign policy moves in the Pacific to embarrass the Coalition government, to trying to bankroll candidates in the election. Labor candidates. CCP-linked figures had also been caught out handing literal shopping bags of
The whole Bruce Lehrmann/Brittany Higgins saga has been hopelessly politicised from the instant the story broke. In no small part at the instigation of Higgins herself, who by her own admissions timed her media appearances, often at the expense of answering police requests, for maximum political impact. Even before
Dr Kerryn Phelps is the last person I’d have expected to be a far-right conspiracy theorist, I have to say. Phelps is, after all, the prototypical “Teal”, a climate-bothering, Harbourside-mansion green-lefty, celebrity lesbian and former president of the Australian Medical Association. Yet here she is, peddling right-wing, white-supremacist, dangerous
You can always tell when it’s summer in Australia (even when it’s as miserable and dull a one as this): the cricket’s on the telly, the news starts hawking luridly coloured weather maps to try and frighten us, and the lefties are whinging about Australia Day again.
Timing is everything in comedy — and in politics, too. There’s never a good time for a government to belt its most productive sector with what I call “puffy pants taxes”*. But there are definitely worse times to do so. Such as when said sector is on the brink of
As Margaret Thatcher once said, “if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left”. Which should be immensely cheering to another woman who’s a rising star in conservative politics. Country Liberal senator Jacinta Price is well used to personal attacks by now. Leftist
As I recently wrote, Europe’s idiotic infatuation with ludicrous “green energy” policies is leading it down the primrose path of destruction. Energy supplies are collapsing, right in the middle of the sort of winter the Climate Cult assured us would never happen again, and the continent stands on the
Australia got a brand-new National Anti-Corruption Commission, last Monday. And, by a strange coincidence, the very next day it had a tailor-made parliamentary financial scandal to look into. Handing out public money in breach of the rules fits the definition of a financial scandal. Which is allegedly what happened when
Politics is an ugly business. The legacy media are even uglier. The annals of Australia’s political history since Federation are littered with grubby shenanigans and a long train of wreckage smashed, picked over, looted and left to burn by the political-media class. The Brittany Higgins–Bruce Lehrmann saga will
Just to prove that she is no kind of gold-digger or opportunist, Brittany Higgins has trousered an undisclosed sum (believed to run into the millions) of taxpayer’s money for claims which were never proven in an open court. So secret is the whole matter that the taxpayers who paid
Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly
It’s notable and of a piece with their arrogance that those who shout the loudest about “religions forcing their beliefs on others” are the same ones who are most vindictive about forcing their beliefs on the religious. For them, it’s not about freedom of religion: it’s about
As a recent BFD post noted, Kiwis simply do not trust the media or politicians. Neither do Australians. In fact, Australians overwhelmingly view media and government as a dividing force in society. Which all in all makes Anthony Albanese’s “Trust us, we’re politicians” a weird strategy to win
