Well, we don’t call him “Each-Way Albo” for nothing. Newly-sworn in PM Anthony Albanese’s very first day on the job brought a splendid display of the Labor leader’s penchant for speaking out of both sides of his mouth. There should be no surprises that the issue was
Lyle Shelton mercatornet.com Lyle Shelton blogs at www.lyleshelton.com.au In an election where neither of the parties of government offered an agenda of substance, many Australians voted for those who did. Whether they knew what they were voting for is a different matter, but it’s only
Whatever its faults, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is a dazzling tapestry of character study. Rand sketches her characters with acid wit and little sympathy. One of her few sympathetic characters, at least initially, is the innocently sincere Catherine Halsey. But even she ends up as a nasty harridan — a
The colourful Sydney identity Graham “Richo” Richardson, who many of you may know from Sky News Australia, was once the Secretary of the New South Wales Labor party (this was 40-odd years ago). He, like Paul Keating, Neville Wran, and other senior ALP figures at that time in Sydney, was
As Lauren Southern points out in her book, Barbarians, the Long March through the Institutions is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a conspiracy fact. We know it for a fact because Marxist theorists in the late 60s told us what they were going to do, and how. They planned
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
