Many years ago, I worked with a Chinese-born colleague. Eventually, he moved on to a high-paying job with an Australian company based in mainland China. Notably, before he moved back, he took out Australian citizenship. “Hedging your bets?” I joked. As it turns out, it probably wouldn’t do him
There’s a meme doing the rounds of social media, with Star Trek’s Captain Kirk asking Dr McCoy when the pandemic will end. “Dammit, Jim!” snaps Bones. “I’m a doctor, not a politician!” In memo veritas, we might say: Queensland government documents show that the premier of that
Once authoritarian governments have stripped away freedoms, they rarely, if ever, give them back without a fight. Anyone who thinks that the politicians who’ve ripped away our most basic human rights – freedom of movement, freedom to work, freedom to associate, freedom of speech – over the past 18 months are
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Australia today has the pathetic honour of being the only country in the world which currently prohibits its citizens from foreign travel (excluding visiting New Zealand during the spasmodic bubble periods) without specific permission. They’re doing this under the provisions of the 2015 Biosecurity
In his book Silent Invasion, Clive Hamilton paints an alarming picture of a Communist China determined to dominate the world – including Australia – by any and all means it can. Hamilton outlines China’s multi-pronged strategy: everything from plain old spying, to using international students and “Confucius Institutes” to influence universities,
In today’s Australian, Adam Creighton argues that Covid Derangement Syndrome, or “Covid Dumb”, creates “a shocking decline in critical faculties among intelligent people when Covid-19 is being discussed”. CDS is endemic among the political and “intellectual” elites. “Its sufferers,” says Creighton astutely, “assert and do things that are patently
The wheels of justice turn slow, it is said, but they grind exceedingly small. But bad laws throw a spanner in the works – at least, that’s what bad lawmakers hope. Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act is very bad law. It was enacted by former Labor premier, Steve
As I’ve written for Insight over the past few weeks, the decline of Christianity has left a gaping hole in the spiritual heart of the West. Worse, the blind hatred of fashionable for Christianity is opening the door to some very dark forces. The Australian Census is running tonight
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An episode of 80s sitcom Family Ties had one of its insufferable telegenic offspring eerily anticipating today’s Thunberg Jugend. Youngest child, Jennifer Keaton, jumps on the green-left doom-scenario of the day, nuclear winter, and writes an apocalyptic essay that sends her teacher screaming to a remote “island with sheep”
Australian Defence Force brass seem to think that the ADF needs to “redeem itself” and “restore trust”. But it’s not the ordinary service men and women who’ve lost the trust and esteem of the Australian public – not to mention the ranks. Australians trust and respect their troops. It’
One of the most startling things — in hindsight — about economic collapses is not just how long the signs were ignored, but how quickly the inevitable collapse hits. In his memoirs, Groucho Marx recalls how he’d grown steadily uneasy with the giddiness of the stock market through 1929, but his
Here we go again. Again. Again. Again. It’s getting so that I could just re-schedule these posts every couple of months: Victoria is in lockdown again. For all Daniel Andrews’s bragging about “superior standards” and sniping at Gladys Berejiklian, Victoria has the dismal distinction of being Australia’s
Well, that’s another conspiracy theory that bites the dust. Not because it’s been disproven – quite the opposite. Because conspiracy theories – in the pejorative sense – thrive on lack of proof. Conspiracy theorists likewise thrive on seeing themselves as custodians of secrets known only to a few. The last thing
If we were to believe the mainstream media – and who would, especially Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network – so-called “anti-vaxxers” are wall-to-wall wicked righties. Apparently, the only time the right take time out from eating babies is to gibber “far-right conspiracy theories” about the Covid vaccine. But just because the
