You know, there was a time when I might have voted for the Greens. Then I grew up. (Which explains the Greens’ obsession with lowering the voting age: exploit the young and ignorant while they can. Until then, they’ll just exploit the adult and ignorant.) But even after I
The Australia I used to know had an indulgent tolerance for harmless larrikins, whackers and eccentrics. “Shitposting”, as we call it in today’s internet world, is such an Australian tradition that the “Aussie Shitposter” became its own meme. But the Australia I used to know is long gone. In
Well, there it is: the news that absolutely no-one expected. Shocking. Unforeseen. Totally unpredictable. No-one, but no-one, warned that this could ever, possibly happen. A Central Australian regional council servicing nine remote Aboriginal communities has laid bare the impacts it has observed since long-term alcohol bans were lifted in the
If, as some polls are beginning to whisper, the unthinkable happens this Saturday and Victorians finally break free of the Cult of Dan, one person who should be very, very worried is Jacinda Ardern. What on Earth does a state election in Australia have to do with next year’s
How do societies slide into totalitarianism? One step at a time. You don’t go to bed one night in an open, free country and wake up the next morning to find yourself under constant surveillance with jackbooted thugs banging on your door and all your civil liberties stripped away.
Rebekah Barnett brownstone.org Rebekah Barnett writes for Dystopian Down Under. She holds a BA (Hons First Class) in Communications. After 963 days in a State of Emergency (SoE), Western Australia is finally returned to some semblance of normalcy on the 4th of November with the SoE finally expiring. However,
For months, the near-universal consensus has been that this week’s Victorian state election is Labor’s to lose. Even after the world’s longest lockdowns and Australia’s worst Covid performance, the statewide Stockholm Syndrome has apparently been cast-iron. Anyone who’s visited the state and witnessed the robotic
Predicting election outcomes is nearly always a surefire way to make a fool of yourself. Remember the absolute confidence of Clinton supporters in 2016? Or the hubris of Trump supporters four years later? So, allow me to make a fool of myself by tentatively suggesting that this weekend’s Victorian
Possibly one reason why Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outfit public broadcaster so loves Jacinda Ardern is not just because of her juvenile socialism — but, because, like her, the ABC fancies itself the “sole source of truth”. The ABC constantly touts itself as “Australia’s most trusted news source” (an
I wrote last week, Can Victoria get any weirder? Well, even as I wrote it, I knew the answer: Yes, and hell, yes. With the last week of the election ticking past, Victoria is amping up the hype, hysteria and hyperbole way past 11. The Labor machine is ramping up
Left-wing Australian Twits were beside themselves with joy this week. In scenes of rapture not seen since Neville Chamberlain waved his little piece of paper, the left-elite worked themselves into a lather over the sight of PM Anthony Albanese obsequiously grasping the proffered hand of their favourite Big Daddy since
Can things get any more farcically rotten in Victoria? This is, after all, a state whose premier is heading into an election under the cloud of something like his fifth corruption investigation, not to mention questions over a 2013 car crash that nearly killed a teenage cyclist. Accusations of unfair
As I wrote for Insight this week, how much are the rest of us expected to pay, to save Victorians from themselves? It’s commonly argued that state politics are distinct from federal politics in Australia. In general, that’s true. Not in the case of Victoria. Not in 2022.
Are “renewables” good for anything (besides lining the pockets of billionaire cronies)? Solar panels don’t work when the sun isn’t shining. Wind turbines don’t work when there’s no wind — and they don’t work when there’s too much wind, either. Some wind farms and commercial
You really have to feel sorry for ABC journalists: a billion dollars a year, and they still aren’t safe. Safe from what, I hear you ask? Why, safe from meany-mean mean people on Twitter. Alarming statistics quietly released by the public broadcaster show that trending on Twitter has already
Is it on again? Just a week after begging for an “amnesty” for their brutal bastardy in the name of Covid, are they really gearing up to do it all again? Suddenly, it’s beginning to look like 2020, all over again: the fear-mongering, the hand-waving by “experts” — and the
