How ever did we win World War II? Were we always this fearful and risk-averse? Or are we reaping the grim harvest of generations raised in padded cells by an obsessively safety-first culture? Once, at least some of us seemed to really believe that “Who Dares, Wins”. The ruling creed
Elisabeth Taylor mercatornet.com Dr Elisabeth Taylor is a graduate from the University of Sydney and Commonwealth scholar with a PhD in Medieval Women’s History from Cambridge University. She now works as a researcher, writer and speaker, presenting on issues relating to gender and sexuality. Australians who rely on
For most of the last year or so of the Covid pandemic, New Zealand and Australia have looked on the United States with smug contempt. The shoe is very much on the other foot, now. We here in the Antipodes remain under the harshest lockdowns outside of a welded-shut apartment
Forget kangaroos, surfers and Crocodile Hunters. Australia is, apparently, the Land of the Vaxholes. Led by the nose by a shameless media pack, Australians have swung from panicking that Covid vaccines were going to kill us all, to insisting they’re the absolute greatest thing, ever. Now it’s anyone
Our neighbour Australia has woken up to the fact that trying to get rid of Covid doesn’t work. Even places like NSW and Victoria have woken up. NZ Herald reports. There have been 107 Covid-related deaths since the Sydney outbreak began in mid-June, and there are currently 957 people
It’s official: nothing, but nothing, is safe from the “diversity and inclusion” crowd. Once upon a time, it was your Obergruppenfuhrer types who dedicated all their time to meticulously analysing racial quotas. Now, it’s the Cancelkulturfuhrers of the Twitterreich casting their gimlet eyes over everything, even children’s
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.
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
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
