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
Leftists love to promote policies that make them feel good and preen their virtue in their lefty echo-chamber. The actual results of their policies – which are almost uniformly disastrous? They couldn’t care less. The virtue has been signalled. That’s all that matters. Case in point: Julia Gillard and
As I’ve been reporting, there are growing signs that the tide is turning on the madness of trans ideology. The woke in Britain are hurriedly scrubbing their timelines of any mention of Mermaids, the “trans” charity bedevilled by paedophilia accusations. Even more significantly in the UK, the taxpayer-funded NHS
Australia has a “perpetual irritant”, to use his own words, that we just can’t seem to exorcise from our TV screens. Academia and entertainment industries both being the leftist lobster pots they are, Waleed Aly just keeps bobbing up and down in our collective cultural punchbowl, no matter how
It’s almost like something out of a Dan Brown thriller: a web of corruption, conspiracy, frame-ups and murder, reaching all the way from the Vatican to the halls of power in Melbourne. Even cardinals aren’t safe, if they get too close to unmasking the conspiracy. If that all
How do you know when the ABC approves of a campaign, and when it doesn’t? If it’s described as “grass-roots activism” or “community campaign”, it means the ABC approves. If not, it’s “a targeted campaign”, or an “extremist takeover”. When can you trust the ABC to report
The Greens and the left in general have been making an awful lot of noise about billionaires (they notably shut up about millionaires as soon as they amassed their first millions) and mega-corps not paying tax, lately. But they’re strangely selective in who they get outraged about. If you
