It looks as if Victoria’s own little Princeling, “Dictator Dan” Andrews really admire’s Xi Xinping’s communist regime. This is the fellow, after all, who near fell over himself to sign his personal fiefdom up to the Belt and Road Initiative, against the specific warnings of the Commonwealth
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. This week’s White House meeting between Jacinda Ardern and Joe Biden reflected a world undergoing rapid change. But of all the shared challenges discussed,
Surging prices of energy in Australia have gotten so bad that even the legacy media can’t ignore it any more. So, they’re falling back on another tried’n’true tactic: lying by omission and blame-shifting. When the Biden administration recently tried to blame America’s spiralling energy
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For someone who claims not to go looking for drama, foghorn media tart Yassmin Abdel-Magied has an odd habit of shooting off her gob in the most attention-seeking ways possible. When she inevitably gets the reaction she was trying to provoke, she goes full cry-bully and runs
Talk about more front that Myers: despite notching up the lowest vote in a century, Anthony “Mr 30%” Albanese is claiming a “clear mandate” to “change Australia”. And he’s getting right to it, signalling an attempt to foist at least two fundamental constitutional changes on the nation. Indeed, there’
Tony Abbott is just one of four Liberal leaders to win government from opposition. He came within one seat of consigning Labor to just the second one-term government in Australia’s history (and beat them in a landslide at the following election). Clearly, then, he knows a thing or
And, just like that, the Teals became an irrelevant sideshow. After more than a week of counting, Labor have finally clinched the magic 76 seats in the lower house that they need to govern in their own right. The Teals’ hopes of being the powerbrokers in the next parliament have
As Anthony Albanese laughably claims a “clear mandate” to govern — despite recording the party’s lowest vote in a century, with less than one-third of voters picking Labor — Peter Dutton is getting down to the tough job of rallying the defeated Liberal party. (A party which actually recorded a
Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was
Australia has a new prime minister and a new opposition leader. Just who is new Liberal leader Peter Dutton? Is he the leader the Liberals need, to capitalise on the tremendous shift in political allegiances that showed in the election result? Scott Morrison only narrowly beat Peter Dutton in the
In Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein cautions against dumping a leader you don’t like, just because you don’t like them. Make sure whoever’s going to replace them isn’t even worse, he warns. Americans are getting an object lesson in Heinlein’s warning: they swapped
Twitter’s original slogan was “Tell us what you really think.” Reading some people’s tweets, you often have to ask yourself: what the hell were they thinking? Twitter has become notorious for ruining people over a single, thoughtless tweet. Usually, they’re low-level former nobodies, mindlessly thumbing out
Ryan Anderson mercatornet.com Ryan Anderson is an essayist based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Quillette, Quadrant, the UK Mallard and assorted other publications in the UK and Australia. The Victorian Liberals have expelled an outspoken anti-abortion MP. Followers of Victorian politics have probably heard of
As I write this, the song “1999” by Prince is playing through my headphones and it certainly sums up what must have been happening in the Scott Morrison household in recent days. Had he been re-elected, he would have continued being – horror of horrors – a target for the media
As the washout of last weekend’s Australian federal election continues, more and more interesting facts are emerging from the post-poll entrail-reading. The most obvious takeaway from the election result is that a great many Australians walked away from the two-party system in disgust. For the moment,
