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
‘Battleground Melbourne,’ a new film documenting the fall of the world’s most livable city through the eyes of those fighting to save it, has attracted more than 200,000 views since it was released on YouTube on January 13. The powerful documentary, created by libertarian political commentator, filmmaker, and
Possibly much to the disappointment of PM Scott Morrison, the unedifying Novak Djokovic saga is over. The Full Court of the Federal Court has rejected Djokovic’s appeal against a second visa cancellation and he has voluntarily left Australia for Spain. Why would Morrison be disappointed? Because he was clearly
January 16th, 2022. News of the Tsunami hitting Tonga after the volcanic explosion is just reaching the UK. I sincerely hope that the nation and people can recover and the death toll (if any) is low. By raising the following issues, I am not being unsympathetic, but being 12,000
Keith Parry Bournemouth University Dr. Keith D. Parry is Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Sport & Events Management at Bournemouth University (UK) and an Adjunct Fellow at Western Sydney University (Australia). He is an award-winning writer and educator. Tennis star Novak Djokovic is out of the Australian
Maria O’Sullivan Monash University Maria is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University. Her teaching and research interests are public law, refugee law and human rights law. Many sports stars are, rightly or
There are certain undeniable signs when it’s January in Australia: shaking off the holiday hangover and groggily remembering what day of the week it is, bushfires… and leftists getting in a tizz about either Australia or a Republic. Australians steadfastly support our national day on January 26 and overwhelmingly
“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
