It’s the final days of the Australian election and the hijinks aren’t letting up. Crash-tackling kids, billionaire bullies harassing women, leaders hiding from the press and yet more Albanese gaffes. It’s all happening, folks. It wasn’t quite Boris Johnson doing his best Billy Madison impersonation
According the woke left, “OK, Groomer” is just another hysterical, far-right conspiracy meme. The idea that creepy, perverted leftists are trying to sidle up alongside your kids is ridiculous. Without any basis in fact at all. I mean, whoever heard of a transgender man petitioning local councils to host
Ever since Plato got his aristocratic knickers in a bunch at the idea of letting the hoi polloi (an ancient Greek expression, meaning “deplorables”) have a say in running things, certain groups have been unable to let go of the conceit that everything would be just fine if they were
If Australians really do vote Anthony Albanese’s Labor party into government, what can we expect? Well, we can get a fair idea, just by looking across the Tasman. Of course, the Australian media-left has been doing just that for the past five years, but they’ve been doing
As the election heads into the final turn, Anthony Albanese is repeating both the same mistakes he has repeatedly made during the campaign, and the hubris of Bill Shorten at the same point of the last election. Albanese’s campaign has been dogged from the start by his inability to
When you live, as we do, in a Clown World, the line between satire and reality is hopelessly blurred. We need only read a Babylon Bee article, and watch it become actual news within the week, to know that. Just to drive the point home, “fact checkers” have felt it
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
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
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
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
