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
“We are all in this together” has been the mantra of the Covid dictators. But while ordinary Australians have resorted to plundering their retirement savings to survive, the public service are doing very nicely indeed. In Victoria, the state which has suffered most under five – so far – lockdowns, the very
As I’ve explored in a series of Insight posts, an increasing number of thoughtful atheists are concluding that, in abandoning Christianity, the West has lost something vital. Unfortunately, a great many atheists are not so thoughtful. Instead, they’re parroting the adolescent bile of New Atheism and attacking Christianity
The very fact that the Australian government is bragging about “freedom incentives” shows just how far Australia has slid into the dark valley of authoritarianism. Unpack those two little words: Firstly, the fact that the government is even dangling “freedom” in front of us is an explicit acknowledgement that we
