It’s what we in Australia call “pulling your head in”. It’s what happens when some drongo at the footy or in the pub is mouthing off and everyone else is silently cracking the shits with them. Pretty soon, they get told to “pull yer head in”. Being invariably
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. May 31, 2021 Is New Zealand navigating the China-West, politics-trade relationship in a craven way? Increasingly that seems to be the view from overseas, and
Many of you will know that parts of Australia are currently suffering a once-in-a-lifetime mouse plague. The plague is affecting rural parts of Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia, resulting in the destruction of crops and people’s livelihoods. This is a tragedy for all concerned… but according
In calling out China for its increasing aggression, human rights violations and COVID cover-ups, Australia is paying a hefty price for storming the high moral ground. A furious Beijing is doing everything it can, using trade tariffs to punish us economically. But across the Tasman it’s a completely different
Mary Fifteen months since the start of this pandemic it seems nothing much has been learned. Here we are in Victoria into our fourth lockdown after 21 people were diagnosed as having the Covid-19 virus. We have to wear masks indoors and out, cannot travel more than 5 kilometres from
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As I reported recently, even Labor insiders and unionists are warning the party leadership to drop the woke-ism and stop making policy in and for “inner-city coffee shops”. That covers everything from climate alarmism to radical gender theory. As former frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon warned, Labor’s brand is rapidly going
Renae Barker The University of Western Australia Renae Barker is a lecturer in law at the University of Western Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Muslim States and Societies. She completed her PhD at UWA in 2014. The New South Wales government has put a temporary
You might wonder why two parents who aren’t working would even need childcare. After all, wasn’t the whole point of childcare to free up mothers to return to work? Ah, you see: that’s why you’re not an expert. You’re just not clever enough to understand
It’s like watching the start of just about every zombie apocalypse movie: a montage of ever-more-urgent news reports, graphics of growing numbers of infected, footage of lines of cars fleeing the city. Except that the zombies in this case are very real: they’re the politicians and health bureaucrats
As I wrote recently for Insight, we are almost uniformly represented by fools with zero real-world experience. These credentialled ignoramuses go direct from university to politics, skillfully avoiding ever working in a ‘real’ job. It’s a problem that afflicts all sides of politics but is especially acute for the
Lawyer and academic Noel Pearson has laid down the law to education bureaucrats: drop the “progressiveness” and go back to what we know works. I disagree with Noel Pearson about many things, “Indigenous Voice” especially, but his challenge to education bureaucrats is right on the money. Noel Pearson has issued
You’ve got to admire Andrew Bolt’s cojones, if nothing else. After all, when Bolt was coward-punched by two Antifa soy-boys in the street, he wasted no time spinning around and dropping one of the would-be attackers like a sack of potatoes. In 2011, Bolt was famously convicted of
As I wrote yesterday, it’s looking more and more like a case of Back to the COVID Future in Victoria. Hotel quarantine stuff-ups, restrictions, masks and a government that can’t sort its arse from its elbow: we’ve read this script before. The moral of the story is
Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster appears to be increasingly out of control. Editorial independence is one thing: sloppy, wildly biased journalism and an utter refusal to concede or retract errors is another. One only need listen to the ABC’s coverage of Israeli issues to see its bias: reports on the
