One of the commonest criticisms of monarchs and peers is that they often act as if they’re above the rules that apply to we plebs. But even the Sun King had nothing on the entitlement mentality of some elected officials. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese seems to be channeling
If there was ever any doubt that the Greens are the most odious wing of Australian politics, the Queen’s passing has seen them proving it for all to see. As I reported for the BFD recently, the Greens’ leader, Adam Bandt, kicked off proceedings but was soon overtaken by
A billion-plus taxpyer dollars a year buys a lot of things, but self-awareness clearly is not one of them. This is, after all, the organisation that touts itself as “Australia’s most trusted news source”, even though almost no Australians actually watch it. The ABC regularly trails the free-to-air news
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 Why Brag about Things You Never Did? Identity politics is strictly for losers Australian Aboriginal academic
Having known and indeed being related to a number of teachers, I’m well aware that report writing too often consists of finding creative ways to say, “Could do better.” Oh, and not say, “Your kid’s a little shit and I hope never to see him/her/they again.
You can always rely on the Greens to be the worst people in the room — and they haven’t disappointed, as the world wakes to the news that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. Australia’s living past prime ministers and current leaders, even adamant Republican Anthony Albanese, were united
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*
