In the late 19th century, Melbourne was dubbed “Marvellous Melbourne” due to its extraordinary, gold-rush-driven expansion from a frontier village to a sprawling Victorian metropolis in just a few decades. But that expansion came at a cost: Melbourne was also “the City of Dreadful Stinks”. It wasn’t until the
The easiest way to expose the fundamental ignorance of ideologues is often to just ask them basic questions. As Matt Walsh has so effectively shown, ask a gender activist, even leading “transition” doctors, “What is a woman?” and they are completely stumped. Similarly, ask a climate activist basic questions, and
As the days slowly wind to the next Victorian election, the state opposition is finally remembering what it means to be an opposition. More interestingly, Liberals are going after the Andrews government on what are Labor’s traditional strengths: health and education. Going for Andrews’ jugular on health should be
Some months back, I reported on the case of John Millwood, a Tasmanian (former) millionaire and convicted paedophile. “Former” millionaire because, on the very day his victim lodged a civil claim for damages, Millwood instructed his lawyers to begin divesting his estimated $8m fortune. So, now Millwood’s family and
Is it any wonder that horrors like Rotherham and Telford were allowed to happen? As Nigel Farage rebuked a smirking opposition panel at the 2016 Munk Debate, a century of women’s emancipation in the West had ended up with “migrant” activists telling European women not to go out alone
It often seems as if the Australian left is always six months behind their bonkers thought-leaders in America, but in at least one case, our loony left was way ahead of their time. Americans might have AOC, but long before that dynamo of dumbassity, Australia already had Sarah Hanson-Young. “Sarah
As I wrote yesterday for Insight, science is undergoing its most severe crisis in centuries. Not at the hands of the churches, as so many internet atheists like to fantasise, but from a sustained ideological assault from within. Unto the breach has stepped none other than the Catholic Church — on
Well, spring is finally breaking, here in Australia, although a persistent La Nina is poised to send more of Tim Flannery’s tears flooding along the east coast in the coming weeks. But the sun is shining, the trees are blossoming and, no matter the weather, the politicking goes on.
Newly-elected independent Australian MP Dai Le used her maiden speech in Parliament to thank Australia, but maybe it’s Australia who should thank her. After all, Le finally pulled the chain on the most unflushable turd in Australian politics, Kristina Keneally. As if that wasn’t enough reason for ordinary
Imagine writing an entire article on the Holocaust without mentioning Jews. Or the Cultural Revolution without mentioning Mao or China. Yet, somehow, the taxpayer-funded journalistic geniuses at the ABC manage to write entire articles about a spike in forced child marriages in Australia without once mentioning the dreaded “M-word”. Kubra*
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D. Brady The Lord’s Prayer and the Welcome to Country Which is better? Tribalism or universalism? The
In the litany of monstrous authoritarianism that is the Andrews government in Victoria, it’s often forgotten just how “Dictator Dan’s” mania for lockdowns actually started. I guess it all got lost in the numbing months and years of military curfew, rubber bullets at the Shrine of Remembrance and
As Rebecca Weisser noted recently in The Spectator, “Teal is the colour of a Tiffany’s gift box”. The Teal’s climate policies are, similarly, “trophies for rich women, diamond necklaces to flaunt at harbourside parties”. Teal is also the colour of rank hypocrisy. There is nothing that the Teals
As the Hunter Biden laptop scandal shows, lies of omission are often the most damaging of all. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Deep State, the media and Big Tech’s complicit hiding of the scandal ahead of the 2020 election swung the result firmly in Joe
Once upon a time, people sent their children to school to get a rigorous basic education: you know, stuff like reading, writing and maths. These days, parents wanting that would be best advised to home-school — as a small but rapidly increasing number are. Sending your kids to a government or
One thing that’s noticeable about cults is how utterly immune they are to evidence. Especially millenarian, end-of-the-world cults. Few more so than the Climate Cult. Like any other religious cult preaching the imminent end of the world, the Climate Cult are rarely dismayed when their predictions invariably fail to
