Business owners in Queensland are ropeable that football players and their families are allowed to travel across borders when no one else is. I have a friend who has been trying for weeks to bring their partner to Tasmania. They’ve been stymied by red tape, every step of the
No wonder Victorian premier Dan Andrews was so keen to sign up to Xi Xinping’s notorious BRI: he is clearly bent on reinventing the state as a cheap knock-off of the Chinese communist state. Complete with feral media bootlickers, ever-ready to denounce counter-revolutionaries. Mental health campaigner Patrick McGorry has
In the popular (read: left-wing) media narrative, the war in Afghanistan sits somewhere between WWI and Vietnam. It was, we are told, a colossal waste of blood and treasure. Fought on a false premise and doomed to fail. But is that true? It certainly isn’t true of WWI; despite
There have been few politicians more demonised in recent Australian history than Pauline Hanson. To be fair, Hanson initially invited criticism with her foolish comments about Asian Australians. But the media-political response was feral. The media in particular, in a fore-runner of Trump Derangement Syndrome, were indecently giddy at the
Last week, with little fanfare, and near-zero media commentary, Australia slid deeper into a surveillance state. The occasion was the passing of the The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021. The final bill was passed after just 24 hours. Major media outlets like the ABC ignored it. The
A week, as they say, is a long time in politics. Little more than a week ago the Australian federal government was at the mercy of state premiers. Now, PM Scott Morrison is seizing the initiative and demanding that premiers abide by Canberra’s roadmap to end lockdowns and restrictions.
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While the images of teargas and rubber bullets in Melbourne shocked the world, they were just the tip of Australia’s freedom movement. Tens of thousands also marched in protest at Covid lockdowns in Sydney and Brisbane. They may well have been just the beginning. There have been whispers for
Plagues and pandemics have consequences far beyond public health. Pandemics can disrupt societies in far-reaching and often devastating ways. While the “silver lining” of the Black Death, for instance, was that it ultimately led to the dismantling of feudalism, during the plague itself social effects were horrific. There was the
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Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Australian PM, Scott Morrison, is pushing hard on the federal government’s roadmap to “re-open Australia”, be done with lockdowns and border closures, and “learn to live with the virus”. Morrison’s plan is eminently sensible and is clearly based on the real-world experience of places like Britain and Florida.
When does “absolutely free” not actually mean “absolutely free”? Apparently, when everyone is running around, Chicken Little style, panicking over a new virus from China. Australia’s Constitution states that “trade, commerce, and intercourse among the States, whether by means of internal carriage or ocean navigation, shall be absolutely free”
