As the kerfuffle over the historical info boards on the Interislander ferries shows, the sort of person who is apt to describe themselves as ‘feminist, unionist, left-wing, pro-choice, cis-gender, disabled, Pakeha, pro-reindigenisation’ is uncomfortable with some facts about the “indigenous” culture she so fetishises. Most especially
Labor created a seemingly unstoppable Gargantua with the NDIS. Will the same people who birthed this all-consuming monstrosity have the courage, let alone the will, to put it out of our misery. The NDIS — National Disability Insurance Scheme — was just one of the many brain-fart policies of the
As Thomas Sowell has said, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”. Well, not only intellectuals — Labor politicians are just as willfully ignorant. But then, as Anthony Albanese so amply demonstrates, socialist Labor politicians can’t even learn
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer, left alone to supervise the kids, is given a simple piece of advice: “Always do the opposite of what Bart says”. There are some people in life who are just like that. Their talent for being wrong and/or venal is so pronounced
There are few issues on which the elites are so monstrously out of touch than “climate action” and energy policy. As repeated surveys show, people around the world regularly rank climate change the last out of a list of concerns. Most only even pay lip-service because they’re constantly
Anne-Marie Grisogono, Adjunct professor, Flinders University Roger Bradbury, Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Elizabeth Williams, Senior Lecturer, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University Scott Vella, Researcher at CAP Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU National Security College, Australian National University
There is very little I’ll credit the Albanese government for, but one faint praise I’ll damn them with is that at least they haven’t scuttled the AUKUS deal. In doing so, it’s swimming against some very powerful internal tides. After all, China was clearly hoping for
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Earlier this month, the Australian Government announced a A$15 million pilot program for mitochondrial donation, or, as it is sometimes called, “three-parent IVF”. In December 2021, Parliament passed Maeve’s Law, which
There’s a great moment in James Cameron’s underrated classic, The Abyss, where Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is trying to convince the rest of the undersea drilling crew that she’s not some crazy paranoid seeing imaginary aliens. Crew member Alan “Hippy” Carnes (Todd Graff) chimes in his
Sorry, which party has a ‘woman problem’? If we’re to believe the legacy media (and who would?), it’s the coalition. Because, y’know, they refuse to patronise women as lesser achievers by imposing quotas – because everyone knows women can never succeed unless they have the boys in power
We don’t even have a referendum date for the “Indigenous Voice”, nor draft legislation, not even a government policy proposal — and already, the un-elected troughers of the Aboriginal Industry are telling the elected government what to do. Remember, these are the same people telling us, “it’s just
Australia’s Productivity Commission, like New Zealand’s, is an independent statutory commission tasked with advising the government on “a range of economic, social and environmental issues affecting the welfare of Australians”. Ahead of an upcoming review into Australia’s performance, the inaugural head of the Productivity Commission, Gary Banks,
You know, for a mob who are forever banging on about “equity”, and caring for the world’s most vulnerable, the asylum-seeker fetishists seem awfully bent on giving a leg-up to determined law-breakers with the means of jumping over the backs of the world’s most wretched.
Every day, it seems, we learn something else we were right all along about the Covid pandemic — and that the Podia of Truth were lying through their teeth about. From the efficacy of Covid vaccines to the worse-than-uselessness of mask mandates to the lab-leak “racist conspiracy theory”
New Zealand readers will be familiar with the routine promotion of a Stone Aged culture as some sort of cultural acme. In New Zealand, it’s the near-ubiquitous extolling of magic Maori-dom, to the point of the Maori Party literally claiming racial supremacy. In Australia, it’s the
You can fool some of the people, some of the time, as the saying goes. But you can’t fool all of the people all the time — and the longer you try and keep the hoodwink up, the more people are likely to cotton on. Anthony Albanese’s ongoing attempt
