Information Opinion We have all heard the recent left-wing fad for protecting us all against “disinformation” – the hand-wringing about ‘truth’ being widely disseminated throughout the population. Various left-wing academics and Marxist lawyers are, probably as we speak, dear reader, thinking of ways around pesky things like ‘freedom of speech’. Except
The Aussie election was held over last weekend and the incumbent conservative government of Scott Morrison was tipped from office in favour of a ghost campaign from the Labor Party led by Anthony Albanese. There were very salient lessons to be learned from that election for the National Party and
Dear Editor Politicians are inviting electricity chaos in Australia by promoting the closure of coal-fired power stations, but also promoting more electric cars – more demand, less supply. And Green energy is a wild bull in the electricity china shop. Around mid-day on most sunny days, millions of roof-top solar panels
It’s the final days of the Australian election and the hijinks aren’t letting up. Crash-tackling kids, billionaire bullies harassing women, leaders hiding from the press and yet more Albanese gaffes. It’s all happening, folks. It wasn’t quite Boris Johnson doing his best Billy Madison impersonation on
According the woke left, “OK, Groomer” is just another hysterical, far-right conspiracy meme. The idea that creepy, perverted leftists are trying to sidle up alongside your kids is ridiculous. Without any basis in fact at all. I mean, whoever heard of a transgender man petitioning local councils to host a
Ever since Plato got his aristocratic knickers in a bunch at the idea of letting the hoi polloi (an ancient Greek expression, meaning “deplorables”) have a say in running things, certain groups have been unable to let go of the conceit that everything would be just fine if they were
If Australians really do vote Anthony Albanese’s Labor party into government, what can we expect? Well, we can get a fair idea, just by looking across the Tasman. Of course, the Australian media-left has been doing just that for the past five years, but they’ve been doing so
As the election heads into the final turn, Anthony Albanese is repeating both the same mistakes he has repeatedly made during the campaign, and the hubris of Bill Shorten at the same point of the last election. Albanese’s campaign has been dogged from the start by his inability to
When you live, as we do, in a Clown World, the line between satire and reality is hopelessly blurred. We need only read a Babylon Bee article, and watch it become actual news within the week, to know that. Just to drive the point home, “fact checkers” have felt it
Gigi Foster brownstone.org Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales, having joined UNSW in 2009 after six years at the University of South Australia. Over the weekend, the New York Times carried a story
Well, we’re at the business end of the 2022 Australian federal election campaign. The two major parties are making their final pitches to voters. The government has unveiled its last-week big guns and the opposition are still playing small target. The polls are still pointing to a Labor victory…
Well, here we go again. One more time for the slow kids still gawping at the Sole Source of Truth (although, let’s be honest, if they haven’t figured it out for themselves by now, they never will)… Lockdowns made things worse. Don’t take my word for it,
I recently pondered the curious phenomenon of openly non-religious people choosing to send their children to religious schools, and then complaining that they were too… religious. The issue especially affects Anglican schools, which is perhaps no surprise. As we see on the issue of transgenderism, “high achieving women with public
If we really do get the politicians we deserve, I have to ask: what horrible sin have we collectively made against God and man, to be cursed with the useless dropkicks we’ve been lumbered with? When Australians go to the polls in a week, most will do so holding
