It’s been a banner week for people getting a good, old dose of comeuppance. First there was Neil Young, daring Spotify to remove his music from their platform or ditch Joe Rogan. Apparently Neil didn’t take into account that he hasn’t had a hit in decades while
Do Australians really not know about the Holocaust? That’s certainly the impression you’d get, reading reports on a recent survey of Australians’ Holocaust knowledge. In fact, that’s exactly what the media are claiming. A quarter of Australians don’t know about the Holocaust that saw six million
As the great Australian poet Les Murray wrote, in his magnificent The Suspension of Knock, there is no end of cant and hypocrisy in the elite debate (if one-way fog-horning can be called “debate”) about Australian identity. “Our experience and presence, unlike theirs, are fictive ideological constructions.” The “we” in
How does it feel to be That One Guy? That person who refuses to admit defeat, and sits, muttering, “I still say…”, long after everyone else has moved on and is having a good time without you? I’m looking at you, Mark McGowan and Jacinda Ardern. Western Australia and
Mark McGowan and Jacinda Ardern have badly mis-read the Omicron room: when even your fellow Covidiots are mocking you, you know you’ve stuffed up. Mark “Sneakers” McGowan, the West Australian premier, and NZ’s Jacinda Ardern are perhaps the last politicians in the Western world pursuing an “elimination” strategy
When Simpsons aliens Kodos and Kang conquer the Earth, they remind the puny Earthlings that “It’s a two party system! You have to vote for one of us!” Our own alien overlords, the major parties (Labour/National, Liberal/Labor, Republican/Democrat, and so on) seem to think much the
Gigi Foster Paul Frijters Michael Baker 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. Paul Frijters is a Professor of
So, it’s official: WrongThink will not be tolerated in Australia. If our supreme overlords even suspect you of harbouring counter-revolutionary sentiment, you’ll be sent packing from our glorious socialist republic. Okay, so slightly hyperbolic — but only slightly. Because it’s almost precisely what the Federal Court’s full
One of the greatest fallacies of the Wuhan pandemic was the delusion by too many governments that they could just “freeze” national economies, turning them off and on like flicking a light switch. As we are seeing with, for instance, the spiralling supply chain crisis, it just doesn’t work
As I’ve been reporting, after a two year almost-break from mass immigration (the government still quietly snuck 50,000 migrants in, in 2021, while nearly as many Australians were locked out), “Big Australia” is making a roaring comeback. Lazy, greedy big businesses and self-interested politicians are suddenly pounding the
Stacey Rudin brownstone.org Stacey Rudin is an attorney and writer in New Jersey, USA Defending Australian Open Champion Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia, the day before commencement of 2022 tournament play. He entered the country on a visa including a medical exemption based on recent Covid infection. Due
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
For two years, we’ve been constantly brow-beaten with ominous warnings about “overloaded hospitals, cuz covid”. Almost invariably, such stories were either lies — in the US, especially, where data shows the hospital system coped just fine — or business-as-usual in poorly-run public hospital systems in countries like Italy. In Australia, too,
Dictators invariably have a paranoid streak a mile wide. Which should be no surprise: they know they’re perched on a wobbly pedestal that’s always about to tip them in front of a firing squad. All it took was a crowd to start booing Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. World tennis number one Novak Djokovic reacted with dignity and composure after being deported from Australia because he had not been vaccinated against Covid-19. He issued a brief statement expressing his disappointment: “I respect the court’s ruling and
