AUS Politics
This Is Why They Keep Losing
If you wonder why the Liberals in Australia can’t even win against a corrupt authoritarian like “Dictator Dan” Andrews, you only have to look at the quality of their leadership. If Matthew Guy was a shiver in search of a spine, John Pesutto is a cold dribble from a
This Is Why Housing Prices Are Soaring
The Western elite are more out of touch with ordinary people than at any time perhaps since the Sun King swanned around Versailles. On few issues, though, are they more out of touch than on immigration. Governments on both sides of parliament, NGOs, universities, big business — all solidly line up
Not Even Our Best, and No Convictions
When W. B. Yeats wrote that “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”, he might well have been gazing into a crystal ball to the last few decades of Western politics. The worst, whether the zealots of fundamentalist Islam, transgenderism or climate catastrophism, are
A Big, Red Jenga Tower
With the Perrottet government’s loss in NSW on the weekend, the Australian left have been cock-a-whoop that Australian has wall-to-wall Labor governments on the Mainland. Tasmania remains the sole exception with a Liberal government. The ABC in particular has scarce been able to contain its
Grid Will Creak along at Great Cost
It’s said that the only certainties are death and taxes, but Australians can add another to that list, now: soaring power bills. Anthony Albanese’s grubby deal with the zealots in the Greens will do nothing to change the trajectory of the global climate, but is guaranteed to send
We Must Not Let Women Speak
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
Vic Chief Commissioner Put On Notice
It’s becoming more and more obvious that last week’s neo-Nazi gatecrash of the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne was a grubby, politically-motivated stitch-up. From the very moment the LARPing edgelords in their silly masks were ushered through the police cordon and allowed to do
Weak Men Fail to Protect Women’s Rights
As Dutch provincial elections were the latest to show, people across the Western world are fed up with establishment politics. Because, on nearly every issue of substance, two-party systems have become a Tweedledum-Tweedledumber game of furious agreement with left-wing talking points. Few more so than on the
Cultural LARPers Are the Greatest Pretenders
It’s rather noticeable that the “indigenous” culture-vultures on both sides of the Tasman show no inclination to actually live the authentic lives of the cultures they play-act at. Raiwiri Waititi is no sooner going to turn in his natty suits for a grass skirt and grub in
That Didn’t Take Long
Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Voluntary assisted dying in the Australian state of Victoria was legalised in 2017 and the first legal euthanasia took place on July 15, 2019. The legislation had succeeded despite bitter opposition. Perhaps MPs believed assurances from
What Is Keating on About?
As recently reported for The BFD, former Australian PM Paul Keating was back in the news last week. The very person who coined the phrase “Relevance Deprivation Syndrome” was doing his best to desperately try and claw back some relevance and at the same time earn his spot on the
Will NZ Join the Campaign against Women?
If there’s one thing that women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s current speaking tour is proving beyond doubt, it’s that policing in Australia and New Zealand has become so deeply politically compromised that both are rapidly becoming police states. Hyperbole? Consider what a “police state” is:
Why Did These People Die?
Clare Medical Journalist www.excessdeathstats.com On February 24th the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issued a release saying that there had been 15.1% more deaths than usual in Australia in 2022. Here’s what they said: “In 2022, there were 174,717 deaths that occurred by 30 November
They Knew What They Were Doing
As Australian authorities make the inexplicable decision to “repatriate” those who elected to fight for the most brutal Islamic regime in modern times (and in the wide playing field that’s Islamic brutality, that’s saying something), the hand-wringing bedwetters of the chattering classes trot out their standard bullshit.
Tell Us Something We Don’t Know
Even before the Covid pandemic hit, my son found himself doing his university degree online. Except that he wasn’t enrolled as an online student, he was an on-campus student. An ‘on-campus’ student who was lucky to have one hour a week on campus. One of the main