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
Supercars team owner Betty Klimenko says she will not be attending any of the forthcoming events in Sydney due to what she believes is vaccination discrimination. […] Klimenko lamented discrimination towards those who were unvaccinated, some who she said do not have a choice but were being ‘treated like the great
A week, as they say, is a long time in politics. It was just a week or two ago that “Dictator Dan” was ruling Victoria with an iron fist. Dissenters were met with truncheons and a hail of rubber bullets and tear gas. Now Daniel Andrews is under scrutiny like
In two years of non-stop China virus fear-porn, one of the media’s favourite propaganda bludgeons has been hospitals overwhelmed! The only trouble is, it’s either not happened, or just been a case of business-as-usual for second-rate public health systems. For all the media shrieking, hospitals in the US,
Right up to November 2020 public health bodies including the WHO and CDC were adamant that government pandemic responses should not include lockdowns. From very early on in the China virus pandemic it became obvious why: lockdowns do not work. In fact, not only do they not work, they make
In his first few days as NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet is already setting his stamp on the government of Australia’s most populous state. And it seems like he’s annoying all the right people. The left-media were, of course, outraged from the get-go that a conservative (gasp!) Catholic (shock!
As Treasurer and deputy Liberal party leader under Gladys Berejiklian, Dominic Perrottet was a constant gadfly urging the then-premier to err on the side of liberty when it came to Covid restrictions. As premier, Perrottet is set to make quicker easing of restrictions among the first acts of his new
When I was a firefighter, I was told of a fire that had been burning, deep in a coal seam, for years. Nobody could put the fire out. All they could do was try to make sure that it didn’t burst into an uncontrolled conflagration. Victorian premier Daniel Andrews
