I normally avoid Hobart’s “Dark Mofo” winter festival like the plague. That’s because it’s ‘ooh, aren’t we edgy’ adolescent vibe is even more tediously bullshit than the average ‘writer’s festival’. For all their pretensions of ‘dangerous ideas’, these arts-nobblers circle-jerks almost always consist
It’s not for nothing that my Third Law of the Media is Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you. There is no better proof of this law than Australia’s very own taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outfit public broadcaster, the ABC. Take any random ABC “fact-
Pass the popcorn: a flamboyantly homosexual MP is taking one of Australia’s most notorious political bruisers to court. All over a tweet graphically describing gay sex, and gay politicians going into schools. Newly released court documents reveal independent MP Alex Greenwich is suing NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham
The “Yes” campaign has fallen to a new, grubby low, as it desperately tries to save a failing referendum campaign. In one of the most despicable turns in recent mainstream Australian politics, the left are deliberately stoking racial division to try and save a racially divisive referendum. And they’re
Labor may well be wishing they’d never heard the name “Brittany Higgins”, right about now. What no doubt seemed like a golden opportunity to whack the then-Coalition government by weaponising a dubious rape allegation, is turning on them in the worst possible way. Left factional powerbroker and close
Is this the death of the “MeToo” phenomenon in Australia? Ever since it broke in the US, the Australian left, being the slavish imitators of the worst of American culture that they are, were desperately casting about for their own “MeToo” poster girl. For a while, Grace Tame was their
With just a couple of months to go before the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, the “Yes” campaign is in serious trouble. That’s despite a relentless government campaign in favour, millions in funding, and the backing of every elite institution from big business to sport. No wonder the Guardian is so
Well, Anthony Albanese stands behind his Mean Girls, you have to give him that. Or maybe it’s just because Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong threatened to wedgie him in the parliamentary toilets, or else. Whatever, Albanese is standing firm behind Gallagher despite pretty much everyone conceding that she misled
For Australian PM Anthony Albanese, the parliamentary winter break surely can’t come fast enough. Not just a chance for “Airbus Albo” to jet off yet again to sunnier climes, but a desperate chance to try and escape the louring political storm clouds breaking over his head. Apparently hoping to
Proving my adage that the dogs of political scandal are indiscriminate pack-hunters, the Brittany Higgins whirlwind continues to wreak havoc all round in the trailer park of Canberra politics. Anthony Albanese’s government is getting a mauling that shows no sign of letting up as the parliamentary sitting week
For decades, Western governments have known that they faced a looming demographic tsunami of Boomer codgers swamping health and aged care systems. The electoral cycle being what it is, decades of governments have chosen to do sod-all about it and just keep kicking the can down the road for
The most basic rule of economics is supply and demand. When supply exceeds demand, prices drop. When demand exceeds supply, prices rise. Currently, demand for housing in Australia far outstrips supply. Yet, everyone acts as if prices shouldn’t be rising. And rise, they have: stratospherically. Consequently, we have a
The legislative framework for Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda machine national broadcaster specifies that it must “provide within Australia innovative and comprehensive broadcasting services of a high standard”. Nowhere in the act does it say that ‘the taxpayer has to keep paying for dreck no one cares about’
Sometimes I hate being right. I don’t claim to be more than a moderately informed observer of economics, but even to me it seems pretty obvious that deep economic trouble lies in our near future. It gives me no joy to find that far better informed economic observers agree
As I’ve written before, politicians unleash the dogs of political scandal at their peril. Time and again, politicians have got carried away with trying to tear down their opponents, only to find the frenzied pack turning on themselves. It’s kind of an occupational hazard, I guess, when you’
The political fallout from the Brittany Higgins saga just keeps barreling on. Having fatally wounded one government, it’s now turning on the next government — whose political machinations are being laid bare. A raft of leaked text messages show that, despite their repeated denials, senior Labor figures, up to the
