Gigi Foster brownstone.org Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales, having joined UNSW in 2009 after six years at the University of South Australia. Over the weekend, the New York Times carried a story
Well, we’re at the business end of the 2022 Australian federal election campaign. The two major parties are making their final pitches to voters. The government has unveiled its last-week big guns and the opposition are still playing small target. The polls are still pointing to a Labor victory…
Well, here we go again. One more time for the slow kids still gawping at the Sole Source of Truth (although, let’s be honest, if they haven’t figured it out for themselves by now, they never will)… Lockdowns made things worse. Don’t take my word for it,
I recently pondered the curious phenomenon of openly non-religious people choosing to send their children to religious schools, and then complaining that they were too… religious. The issue especially affects Anglican schools, which is perhaps no surprise. As we see on the issue of transgenderism, “high achieving women with public
If we really do get the politicians we deserve, I have to ask: what horrible sin have we collectively made against God and man, to be cursed with the useless dropkicks we’ve been lumbered with? When Australians go to the polls in a week, most will do so holding
Groucho Marx once said that he’d never join a club that would accept him as one of its members. But, these days, plenty of people seem determined to crash their way into clubs that they don’t even want to be in. Why, for instance, would a gay couple
“Where will we hold Australia, we who have no other country? Not Indigenous, merely born here” Les Murray My children were born in Australia. So were their parents, their grandparents — their ancestors, stretching back generations. All their bones accumulating in the dust of this continent. Yet, they still have to
When I recently observed how Australia’s state premiers were quietly colluding to ease back the worst of their pandemic restrictions, with an eye to upcoming elections, it might have seemed that my oft-repeated warning that they will never let us be free again, if they can help it was
Former Labor premier of Victoria, John Cain, famously said, “We may have hired a few nongs, but we weren’t crooks”. As Victorians watched their state economy collapse around them, they might have questioned Cain’s protestation, but he was at least right that he wasn’t a crook. Even
For an activist, a problem solved is an existential crisis. If an NGO admits that the problem it was formed to fix has been solved, then they logically have to shut up shop and find a new job. They’ll also have to kiss goodbye to the river of lavish
Everything is proceeding to plan. Another key Western institution has been wedged, divided and broken by the Long March through the Institutions. The particular salient institution, in this case, is the Anglican Church and the tactical issue is one of the big-winning weapons of the Long March left: same-sex marriage.
Much of the Coalition’s campaign effort in the 2022 election has been diverted to fighting off, not just Labor and the Greens, but the “teal independents”. These are a handful of very rich, almost entirely female, climate botherers in what are normally deep-blue conservative seats. They are threatening to
So, another new national Australian curriculum is released: is it the fix for declining standards we’ve all been waiting for? It’s a start. But it’s a timid pushback at best against the woke-ist rot. Children will be taught about their “eco identity’’, safe dating and giving clear
As Judith Collins once said, the more someone insists on telling you how honest they are, the more carefully you should check your pockets. As far as the 2022 Australian election goes, the more idle rich climate fantasists insist that they are “independents”, the more carefully voters should check who’
From the beginning of the Australian election, Labor have consistently held the lead but failed to generate momentum. That is, there is no sense of “it’s time”, or indeed, any great enthusiasm for the party. In fact, Anthony Albanese’s campaign so far has been more a masterclass in
Labor is doing anything it can to avoid discussing border protection during the election and there’s no prize for guessing why. This election is their’s to lose — and being honest about their border priorities would be a good way to do it. Border protection is pure poison for
