How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye? — Matthew 7:4 As Matthew reminds us, it’s easy to criticise others while ignoring our own glaring faults. Especially when it comes to
In his classic adventure novel, Glory Road, Robert Heinlein’s narrator reflects on his service in an unnamed war in South-East Asia: It wasn’t a war – not even a “Police Action.” We were “Military Advisers.” But a Military Adviser who has been dead four days in that heat smells
What if they built a gulag and nobody came? In news that should surprise absolutely no-one who’s ever watched a government at “work”, Queensland’s $220 million dollar Covid quarantine camp is set to close for lack of “guests”. That’s despite the government’s lease running for at
It was only a matter of time before the Chinese Communist Party really came for Drew Pavlou. Pavlou is the Australian human rights activist who first came to attention when he was a student, subjected to an extraordinary campaign of harassment from University of Queensland, after he organised protests against
Remember when football players played football? No, neither do I. For the last decade and more, professional sport in Australia has become nothing but a bandwagon for every “progressive” nonsense under the rainbow, with the occasional match almost as an afterthought. Once again, wokeism is making a laughing-stock out of
Well, the 47th Parliament is underway and Day Two is giving us a pretty good idea of what to expect. Most of it is shaping up to be as awful as we expected, but there’s also some indication that we can expect some satisfying fireworks in the Senate. The
Viv Forbes Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle, or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-making processes have been aided recently by two extra factors. Firstly, a
Back in 2015, One Nation politician and former Labor leader Mark Latham characterised Bill Shorten as a “flim-flam” leader, “passionately dedicated to symbolism”. “Hold my shandy,” says Anthony Albanese. Anthony Albanese has spoken ahead of the 47th parliament being opened to declare that Australia must seize the “opportunity” offered by
Election advertising is not exactly noted for its impartial accuracy, but the Coalition’s 2022 slogan is starting to look all-too real. It won’t be easy under Albanese. Just a few months in, and Mr 32% is giving even Joe Biden a run for his money as an economic
It may not seem obvious, but a minor item in this week’s news says a lot about where Australia is headed for the next three years. One of Anthony Albanese’s first acts as prime minister (besides jetting off overseas) was cutting parliamentary staffing levels to a quarter of
As I wrote yesterday, Victorian premier Dan Andrews has delivered a masterclass in the sorry-not-sorry insincerity stakes common to petulant teenagers and politicians. In the same breath that he supposedly “takes full responsibility”, he’s also not going to do a damn thing that will actually make a difference. NSW
Any parent is familiar with the sort of surly apology-not-apology of which kids are masters. “Sor-reee!” Most of us grow out of that sort of blatant insincerity. Those who don’t, often become politicians. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has apologised for what he has described as “absolutely disgraceful behaviour” by
Does Anthony Albanese have the worst advisers in the democratic world? Or are his media team, like Joe Biden’s one suspects, constantly tearing their hair out at their boss’s utter, utter dunderheadedness? Or are they as stupid as each other? Because little else would seem to explain Albanese’
Robert Muldoon might have had a gift for the quip, when he smirked about Kiwis moving to Australia, but that couldn’t disguise the harsh truth. New Zealand is and always was the net beneficiary of the trans-Tasman relationship. New Zealand might be last, loneliest, loveliest and exquisite, but it’
John Mathews Macquarie University Elizabeth Thurbon UNSW Sydney Hao Tan University of Newcastle Sung-Young Kim Macquarie University John A. Mathews is Professor Emeritus in the Macquarie Business School at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has taught graduate MBA classes for the past two decades and more. Elizabeth Thurbon is a Scientia
The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing and expecting different results. But as our elites push relentlessly for the same energy policies that have crippled Germany and Britain, blacked out Texas during a winter freeze, and sent electricity prices through the roof everywhere they’ve
