The Greens leader has spectacularly failed the test of one of his party’s key policy obsessions. In the Greens’ policy literature, the invocation of the phrase “critical thinking” stands out, again and again. Adam Bandt yesterday demonstrated the opposite. When Bandt dismissed a journalist’s question by sneering, “Google
A thick, glossy brochure dropped in my mailbox the other day: it turned out to be Pauline Hanson’s One Nation election manifesto. Clearly, the minor party think this election is their big chance. Certainly, no other party’s election mailouts have explained so many policies in such detail (when
Day three of the Australian election campaign, and Anthony Albanese’s week isn’t getting much better. The opposition leader might have drawn some hope from a slight blunder from PM Scott Morrison — if Albo hadn’t immediately kicked the ball back into his own goal. For Scott Morrison, the
If day one of the 2022 Australian election is any indication, it’s going to be a lot more interesting contest than pollsters have assumed. Underdog Scott Morrison came out swinging, while media favourite Anthony Albanese tripped over his own feet with a howler that he’ll spend the rest
During the Covid pandemic and the brutally authoritarian government responses, modelled on Communist China, the supposed guardians of our human rights were notably missing in action. The same quangos who’ve spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars helping bogus “refugees” game the court and welfare systems, or punishing white
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
