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The Return of Alcohol Bans
Michelle Grattan Professorial Fellow University of Canberra Alcohol bans will be reimposed in Northern Territory communities, in a victory for Anthony Albanese over a reluctant territory government. The federal government will also provide $250 million in extra funding for a range of initiatives in employment, health and other areas. The
A Warped View of the World
Michael Cook * Full disclosure: the author is a member of Opus Dei. mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Four Corners, a flagship program on Australia’s ABC, broadcast a scathing attack on two private schools in Sydney on Monday evening. Their crime:
Aus’s Fifo PM Flies off Again
In opposition, Anthony Albanese relentlessly attacked Scott Morrison for either being “missing in action” during national disasters or supposedly merely flying in for photo ops. “I won’t go missing in action,” Albanese bragged. And the instant he was elected? His very first act as Prime Minister was to vanish
Kids Who Go to School Are Worth More than a ‘Voice’
The proponents of an “Indigenous Voice” claim that it’s essential to closing the often shocking gaps, in everything from crime, violence and education, between Aboriginal Australians and the rest of the nation. Never mind that we collectively already spend over $30bn a year on Aboriginal affairs, more than twice
How Would a ‘Voice’ Fix This?
There’s one good thing, at least, coming out of Alice Spring’s descent into juvenile lawlessness: the whole vacuous, pointless, useless charade of the “Voice” referendum is being shamefully exposed for the onanistic elite power-grab that it really is. On the one hand, you have a town where one
The Great Unwatched
Nobody quite does derangement like the left. From Tony Abbott to Judith Collins to the biggest of them all, Donald Trump, the left are constantly goaded into hooting and screeching like a tribe of poo-flinging monkeys at one Goldstein figure after another. Another of their favourite targets of the Daily
If Not January 26, Then When?
Any lingering doubt that the Australian elite class are determined to erase Australia Day from the calender has been stripped bare, this year. For years, of course, the weeks leading up to Australia Day have been the Annual Festival of Hate for the fringe left. Not any more. This year,
We See Right through You, NZ Media
The left-media really need to make up their minds. Either women are fearless girl-bosses who can do anything a man can do, better, or they’re helpless, Victorian, fainting flowers who wither and die the instant they’re exposed to the buffeting winds of politics. They can’t have it
Lying and Dancing on Graves
Soon after the Charles II was restored to the throne, the triumphant monarchists exhumed Cromwell’s corpse from Westminster Abbey and subjected it to a posthumous hanging, drawing and quartering. They were rank amateurs, compared to the Australian left. No sooner has any public figure even slightly to the right
Would You Buy a Used Car off This Man?
Imagine you’re shopping for a used car. The salesman won’t tell you anything about the car, only that it will be a car and you will have to pay something for it. How much? He’ll tell you that after you’ve signed the contract. Can you see
Long White Cloud or Rising Sun?
In the middle of the last century, Australia’s closest ally was New Zealand and its bitterest enemy was Japan. In the early decades of the new century, those roles haven’t been entirely reversed, but they certainly have been severely shaken. Indeed, within a decade of the end of
Swedes to Work Longer to Pay For Migrants’ Benefits
Another day, another Big Business grifter demanding to import another couple of hundred thousand cheap foreign workers. Back in the good, old days, these cronies would simply Blackbird a village of Kanakas, no worries. But modern society tends to frown on such activities, so the Top End of Town has
It’s a Win for the Environment!
They’re a strange mob, the Greens. They’ll chain themselves to the gate six-deep to a mining site if word gets out that a wallaby fell in a tailings dam and drowned. But the same gaggle of smelly unemployables and pious nosey-nannas are nowhere to be seen while wind-farms
Don’t Can the Tank Just Yet
When Mitt Romney tried to take Barack Obama to task over the degrading of America’s blue-water fleet, Obama responded with his trademark smirking ignorance and the left-media lapped it up. “We also have fewer horses and bayonets,” haw-haw-hawed President Smug. The media seals honked a chorus of approval. Fast-forward