Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Information Opinion Congratulations to Ted Dwyer in “Spectator Australia” (25/6/22) for asking why Australia has bet the house on the US/NATO adventurism in Ukraine. There are few innocent parties in Ukraine today – an undeclared civil war has been simmering for this whole century.
Here in Tasmania, we’re used to being the whipping boys for the green follies of Mainland activists. There’s a steady stream of FIFO activists in and out of the state, ever-ready to chain themselves to anything that threatens to make a profit. Mainlanders love to keep Tasmania locked
Gee, it’s good to know that everything is just fine in Australia, right now. I mean, if there was anything really bad happening, like an energy crisis, an inflation crisis, or external threats from an aggressive dictatorship, surely the prime minister would be staying home to deal with it.
The fallout from harbourside mansion prima donna Lisa Wilkinson shooting off her oversized, overpaid gob continues. To recap: Wilkinson used her speech at the Logies (Australia’s bargain-basement, hick regional version of the Golden Globes) to sound off on a high-profile rape case that is currently before the court. In
Never let it be said that the left can’t deal with the important stuff. After all, America may be collapsing into impoverished violence, with soaring inflation, spiralling gas and food prices and armed thugs attempting to assassinate Supreme Court justices, but Joe Biden did pass an anti-lynching law. That’
Rats and sinking ships come to mind: no less than four senior ministers, including the deputy premier, have suddenly announced their resignations from the Victorian government. This all just five months out from an election. Dictator Dan’s little rowboat is taking on water and listing even further to the
In a further blow to the already-shredded credibility of Bruce Pascoe, Australia’s wokest state has added a scholarly rebuttal of his pseudo-history, Dark Emu to school reading lists. Of course, Victoria being Victoria, they couldn’t just dump Pascoe’s work of imaginative fiction from school reading lists entirely,
Just 15% of Australian workers are in a union. Nearly all of those are public servants or other white collar workers. The only real redoubt of blue collar unionism left is the building trades, where being a union member is often simply a necessary evil of being allowed to work
If you study journalism, one of the things you are drilled in in your 101 subjects is sub judice contempt. This is the pretty basic idea that, when a suspect is charged and a case is going through the court process, journalists have to be very careful in what they
Another day, another round of japes, gambols and pratfalls in the clown show that is Australian politics. We’ve got the Amazing Albo the Backflipping Buffoon, Adam and his Disappearing Flag, and the magic of Lisa Wilkinson who rubs her ego and makes fair trials disappear. First off, the political
It seems that hardly a day goes by without Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda unit the ABC shrieking about the “threat of the far-right”. The ABC has also spent months regurgitating the US legacy media’s lies and conspiracy theories about the Jan 6 riot. Yet it has no qualms
Have the wheels ever fallen off a government as fast as Albanese’s Labor? Well, possibly Julia Gillard’s: from the moment Gillard broke her clear promise, made the day before the 2010 election, not to introduce a carbon tax, her government was toast. All that was left to decide
The rather arrogant Prime Minister was quickly losing support after his/her historic election victory a year and a half earlier. He/she failed to appreciate the effect inflation, in particular, was having on the general public; the concerns people had at the supermarket checkout at the soaring cost of
If doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, then we are governed by a classic of barking mad nutcases. Well, I mean, we already knew that: but they just keep on proving it in the most staggering fashion. When, for instance, the nation you’
So, it turns out that standing up to genocidal tyrants doesn’t endear your country to the “pacifist intelligentsia”. Australia’s combative relationship with China and plans to purchase nuclear submarines have helped pushed it nine spots down the Global Peace Index, an annual assessment of nations’ pacifist records. This
Climate has never been an election winner in Australian politics. Every time an election has been fought explicitly on climate policy, the climate cultists have lost. Kevin Rudd’s 2007 campaign focused more on pitching himself as a slightly more youthful clone of John Howard (how many times did Rudd
