“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” W. B. Yeats classic poem could hardly have summarised the behaviour of Australia’s politicians during the covid pandemic. The worst — “Dictator Dan” Andrews, Mark “Sneakers” McGowan, and Annastacia “Pluckachook” Palaszczuk — have seized the dire opportunities of
Balding multimillionaire leftist Peter FitzSimons, who is as much a historian as the Fifty Shades books are great literature, recently had quite the dummy-spit over Australia’s Freedom protesters adopting the Eureka flag. With his characteristic grasp of historical fact, FitzSimons blustered that the protesters “know nothing of Eureka”. The
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia, MercatorNet, Caldron
The ridiculous, unedifying Novak Djokovic saga continues to embarrass Australia. Not since Lindy Chamberlain, perhaps, or Cardinal Pell, has the media had such a field day whipping up a firestorm of hate. Not since Egon Kisch in 1934 has a government made such a ludicrous ass out of itself in
Dear Editor The Australian government’s high-handed treatment of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic because of his refusal to have the Covid vaccination not only highlights the weakness of the case for the jab but also suggests that Djokovic’s state of health is not the real reason for threatening
One of the constants throughout the Covid pandemic is that the “cure” has almost invariably been worse than the disease. This was obvious from the very earliest days, when the Chinese communist regime resorted to stunning brutality in Wuhan — “disappearing” researchers, punishing doctors who spoke out of line and even
There is probably no greater policy divide between the elite and proles than on immigration. Put simply, the elite just love immigration: the more, the better. After all, they reap all the benefits: cheap workers and funky ethnic cafes. The rest of us, who have to pay all the costs
As I’ve written many times, Australia is bedeviled by two Scott Morrisons. There’s Scott Morrison the international statesman who has won recognition around the world for his principled stance against China. Then there’s Scotty from Marketing, a gutless dog on domestic politics, continually waved back and forth
As I recently wrote, the frenzied witch-hunting of Novak Djokovic is yet another excrescence of the sort of media-fuelled ugliness that periodically breaks out in Australia. Still, the mainstream media at least have the poor excuse of being driven by a desperation to generate clicks online and stave off their
Joe McIntyre University of South Australia Dr McIntyre is legal theorist specialising in judicial studies and public law. After initially practicing law in South Australia, he moved to the UK to study at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis examined the nature of the judicial role, and how that
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Novak Djokovic was just doing his job, aiming for his tenth win at the Australian Open, when he was apprehended by Australian border control who revoked his visa and locked him up pending deportation within hours of his entering Australia. Djokovic’s fight with the law is the same fight
Did you hear about the group of armed far-right protesters who set fire to Australia’s old Parliament House, now the Museum of Australian Democracy? Of course you didn’t — because it didn’t happen. Rest assured, though, if it had, the screeching from the mainstream media would be deafening.
The embarrassing spectacle of the Novak Djokovic show trial drags on. All that has been aired in the trial so far merely confirms what seemed obvious enough from the start: the whole chaotic farce is almost certainly a political concoction. If nothing else, it exposes beyond doubt the Kafka-esque absurdity
Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. I wanted to take a moment to recognize Novak Djokovic and his heroic defiance of the COVID regime, lending his enormous platform and status to the millions of people around the world who have been denied their unalienable rights
