As I’ve written many times, Australia is plagued with two prime ministers. On the one hand, there’s Scott Morrison the international statesman, standing up to the Chinese behemoth and forging far-reaching new international alliances. Then there’s domestic Scotty from Marketing, wishy-washing from poll-driven pillar to focus-group post.
I’ve written several times lately that there are clear signs that Victorian premier Daniel Andrews’ super-secret taxpayer-funded polling of marginal electorates are showing a shift of sentiment on lockdowns. Lo and behold! To the surprise of absolutely no-one, “Dictator Dan” is doing a rapid about-face on lockdowns – even as
rt.com Video footage of Melbourne police checking whether a man’s coffee cup was empty to verify his excuse for not wearing a mask is stirring the latest round of online outrage over Australia’s dystopian Covid-19 policies. While it is unclear when exactly the video was recorded, the
More telling than the revelations about Harvey Weinstein — as if we didn’t know about Hollywood’s casting couch culture — were the reactions of the rest of Hollywood. People who had once lionised and given standing ovations to the mogul suddenly either turned on their former hero, or, most often,
We’re constantly reassured that “the vast majority” of Muslims in the West are “moderate”. So, what to make of it when peak Muslim spokespeople and organisations keep saying and doing things that don’t seem that moderate at all? Whether it’s Sheikh Hilaly comparing women to “uncovered meat”
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Identity politics is intellectual bludging. I did a quick search to make sure I was using that correctly and: yep, I am. To bludge is to shirk responsibility and live off the efforts of others. But before I point the finger at the usual perpetrators of
righttolife.org.uk The New South Wales Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has been selected to take over as Premier of Australia’s largest state, and is coming under media scrutiny for his pro-life views. New South Wales is Australia’s largest state by population size and is home to over 8.
Nothing else perhaps shows how low the bar of liberty in Australia has fallen than that we’re supposed to be cock-a-whoop at NSW Dominic Perrottet’s latest announcement. “At last, Fortress Australia has been breached!” crows The Australian. “NSW to scrap quarantine for international arrivals” says the ABC. Except
In a way, it’s not surprising that the left, especially the feminist left, think that all men are “toxic” predators. They’re just judging all men by the men they know. “Reset the Clock” became a meme because of the seemingly endless stream of revelations of “male feminists” indulging
For two years, Australians have been lectured, brow-beaten, and finger-wagged by “experts”. Most significantly, they’ve had their most basic freedoms rudely stripped away on the advice of the same experts. Before that, it was years of “expert” foghorning on everything from climate change to sugar. Now the experts are
Dr Peter Ridd has lost his High Court challenge to his sacking by James Cook University. But the scientist has every justification for stating that he has “lost the battle but will continue the war”. It might even be said that he has ensured his final victory. On the other
Authoritarian states are alarmingly easy to slip into, much harder to dig out of. Freedom is a fragile thing. As Wendell Phillips said, Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. One of the tried-and-tested methods of stealing power from the
Things are obviously not looking too flash, all of a sudden, for Daniel Andrews in Victoria. Not just the multiple corruption inquiries, but, seemingly, a sudden shift in Victorians’ attitude to lockdowns. The state that has been all “IStandWithDan” might just be getting sick of endless lockdowns. Suddenly, the Andrews
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. With his track record of slipping out of scandals apparently unscathed, you likewise couldn’t blame Victorian premier Daniel Andrews for not expecting more than a light tap on the wrist from corruption investigators. But, far from the comfy chair, he’s suddenly finding himself
