No one hesitates at life or beats around the bush in Australia… Everyone walks around with a perpetual smile across their face… Everyone gets around and nobody can ever get you down The Kinks, Australia. Back in 1969, when the Kinks wrote their paean to the opportunities in the Antipodes,
The last Australian politician to tell voters exactly what he stood for ahead of an election was John Hewson. There’s not much else nice I can say about Hewson, but at least he was up-front about his ambitious program of tax reform. The only problem was that Australians wanted
One of the biggest of the innumerable Big Lies of the climate lobby is that “renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels”. If this is true, one must ask two simple questions: why are energy costs spiralling in direct correlation with adoption of renewables, everywhere it’s being tried? And why
In perhaps the clearest sign yet that the imminent Australian election is closer than polls suggest, things are getting ugly before it’s even called. PM Scott Morrison hasn’t even been to see the Governor-General and already the low blows are being dealt. Especially the race card. In the
As I wrote last week, treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s budget was a last throw of the lifeline to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison before the next election. Is it paying off? Maybe. In a re-run of 2019, the Coalition has consistently trailed Labor in the polls for months. The post-budget
Tasmania is a small place, so it’s not hard to rub shoulders with many of even the island’s biggest names. I only ever had one, tangential, encounter with former millionaire Launceston businessman John Millwood. Let’s say it was not a pleasant encounter and Millwood did not leave
Is this really saying what I think it is saying? Ditto NZ. Just another reason to stay the hell away from doctors.https://t.co/GUr6LVYkaj — Larry ?? (@lazzaNZL) April 3, 2022 If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the
When Bill Shorten lost the 2019 election, it was a complete shock to the commentariat (not to mention Bill himself, who had reportedly already booked the movers, ready to relocate to Canberra). But should it have been such a surprise? It was easy to overlook, given the apparent decisiveness of
The polls might all be going Anthony Albanese’s way on the eve of Australia’s federal election — but then, they also did for Bill Shorten, last time. Despite the certainty of the punditry, there were nagging issues for Shorten that bubbled away from the gaze of pollsters. The same
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Adam Creighton is economics editor at The Australian, and served as a leading voice for
As I wrote recently, with its poll fortunes reaching pre-2019 levels, the Coalition is in deep trouble, going into a likely May election. Morrison’s last big shot at repeating the 2019 “miracle win” was Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s budget. If Frydenberg tried the classic John Howard move of a
If hypocrisy was a renewable energy source, Parliament would power the world, in perpetuity. Of course, we all know that a politician is a hypocrite, but sometimes the sheer, colossal brass of some politicians sets a staggering new bar for chutzpah. Yesterday, Australia’s Senate was witness to a display
As Steven Crowder once pointed out, if “surveys” conducted by campus activists are to be believed, college campuses in the U.S. are even more dangerous for women than the Congo, where mass rape is a strategy. Before you can screech “MeToo!”, Australian media are splashing lurid headlines about “university
“At all times the Party is in possession of absolute truth […] Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth” — George Orwell, “1984” What is truth? That’s something that philosophers have argued over for millennia — and we’re still no further to settling it. But, apart from some
Einstein mused that stupidity was the most plentiful thing in the universe, but I’d suggest that hypocrisy is not far behind. Case in point: the tub-thumping, chest-beating outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Judging by the cacophony of outraged screeching that greeted Russian ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky’s first
