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
Actuaries have not unfairly been described as “people who didn’t have enough personality to be accountants”, but when it comes to crunching numbers, they’re the folks you go to. Especially if you want to analyse mortality statistics and risks. According to the Actuaries Institute, Australia ought to greatly
It was surely one of the most staggering moments of hypocrisy in Australian history: in the same week that the Labor government connived to censure a former PM for the first time since Federation, it was indulging in an orgy of lionising former PM Gough Whitlam. Where’s the hypocrisy?
Are the pack hunters of the Australian media-political left about to get their own taste of the Kyle Rittenhouse/Covington Kids medicine? For months, the pack have been howling for the blood of Bruce Lehrmann and, by proxy, the Coalition. For nearly two years, they’ve had an unchallenged run.
The Greens, as I have often said, are a toxic party full of toxic people. They’ve been doing little, lately, to disabuse me of that notion. Of course, when the party’s CV of scandals — mostly covered up as assiduously as possible, the Greens, despite their pious rhetoric, being
I wonder if cartoonist Mark Knight has changed his mind about the “Indigenous Voice” referendum? Knight wanted to show his support for the “Yes” case, you see. So, as cartoonists will, he drew an editorial cartoon to promote it. And got a short, sharp lesson in just how the “Voice”
The rape trial that shook Canberra may have fizzled to an end, with the ACT prosecutor dropping all charges, but the legal action — and the bombshell revelations — roll on. Everybody’s lawyering up, all over the place. First off is accused Bruce Lehrmann, who says he is broke and broken
