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A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. The Dangerous Silliness

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You Can’t Have Your Yuan and Your Sanctimony, Too

You Can’t Have Your Yuan and Your Sanctimony, Too

Call me crazy, but I’m not exactly inclined to take seriously lectures on business ethics from someone who makes billions from a genocidal communist regime. Being subjected to pontifications on slavery from someone who cheerfully deals with one of the most notorious slave-owning regimes on the planet just, I

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Craig Kelly Pilloried for Telling the Truth

Craig Kelly Pilloried for Telling the Truth

It’s as predictable as climate alarmism in summer: yet another pile-on of a conservative heretic by the usual deranged mob of leftist politicians and their journalist bootlickers – and yet another instance of “Scotty from Marketing” gutlessly ditching one of his own to try and “get ahead of the story”

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Zero Emissions

Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage

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Leaners Driving Out the Lifters on Campus

Leaners Driving Out the Lifters on Campus

The leaners sure hate the lifters. Australian rock group This Is Serious Mum once described a proposed tour of a Melbourne “Arts” festival, where busloads of Melbournians from the suburbs would be slowly driven along St. Kilda Boulevard, where hundreds of the city’s most cutting-edge arty types would line

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The Kindness of COVID Dictators

The Kindness of COVID Dictators

When Jacinda Ardern slammed New Zealand into stage four lockdowns, it might perhaps have made New Zealanders scratch their heads and wonder how such draconian panic could be reconciled with Ardern’s endless prating about “kindness”. After all, what was “kind” about preventing people being with family members at their

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China’s $39bn Fortress on Australia’s Doorstep

China’s $39bn Fortress on Australia’s Doorstep

Yet again, the Chinese Communist Party is weaponising the moronic greed of a South Pacific panjandrum ruling a running-down island state desperate for cash. No, I’m not talking about Jacinda Ardern inching ever-closer to the poisoned carrot that is Xi Xinping’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. Papua New Guinea

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We’ve Been Erased by Victorian Politicians

We’ve Been Erased by Victorian Politicians

Leah Gray mercatornet.com I am an ex-lesbian, as well as someone who experienced gender dysphoria as a child. Now I am married to a patient and gracious man and have a young son. Ten years ago I voluntarily sought counsel from Christian psychologists, ministries, support networks and people who

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Labour Are Selling NZ’s Soul

Labour Are Selling NZ’s Soul

From Goethe’s classic Faust to Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore’s comedic version, Bedazzled, the message has always been clear: fools deal with the Devil at their peril. No matter how glittering the prize the Prince of Liars dangles before the naive and greedy, the Devil always wins – and

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Scotty from Marketing Strikes Again

Scotty from Marketing Strikes Again

“Scotty from Marketing” is yet another inane hashtag sneer from the Twitter left. If only it wasn’t so damned on-point. On the one hand, Scott Morrison genuinely deserves to be lauded for holding a strong line against China’s trade and diplomatic bullying. On the other, domestic, front, though,

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Desperately Seeking “Far-Right Extremists”

Desperately Seeking “Far-Right Extremists”

They seek them here, they seek them there: those lefties, they search everywhere. Are they on Twitter? Or are they on Telegram? Those damned elusive “Far-Right” bogey-men. We keep getting told that “far-right extremists” are a bigger threat than Islamic terrorism. Just ignore the facts. Despite over a decade of

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‘Change the Date’ Changes Nothing Important

‘Change the Date’ Changes Nothing Important

It’s as predictable as a pigeon pooing on a freshly-washed car. It’s the highlight of every leftist miseryguts’s year: whinging and carping about Australia Day. As in so much else surrounding “indigenous issues”, there’s a glaring disconnect between the virtue-signalling parades of city-based, overwhelmingly white, leftists

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Another Outbreak of the Madness of Virus Dictators

Another Outbreak of the Madness of Virus Dictators

Have our politicians and bureaucrats gone collectively insane? Or are they just so hopelessly addicted to the absolute power they’ve seized, courtesy of the Chinese virus, that they will do absolutely anything to get another fix? How else can you explain the madness that is sending public policy screaming

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One, Two – Bend over and Do the Kiwi Kowtow!

One, Two – Bend over and Do the Kiwi Kowtow!

The extraordinary intervention of the government of “New Xi-Land” (as one tabloid dubbed it) in China’s trade and diplomatic war assault on Australia has not gone unnoticed. As I wrote for The BFD, Jacinda Ardern and her government appear to have decided just whose side they’re on – and

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Victoria to Extend “State of Emergency” until 2022

Victoria to Extend “State of Emergency” until 2022

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scanning the annals of history, it’s rather telling that a bare handful of dictators, left or right, have voluntarily ceded their power. Pinochet or King Juan Carlos I, for instance, or Daniel Ortega or Julius Nyerere. Further back, perhaps George Washington, or his

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A Busted Two-Bob Watch Is Almost Right

A Busted Two-Bob Watch Is Almost Right

Even a busted Labor party two-bob watch can be right at least once a day. Sadly, that’s about the best spin I can put on Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles’s attack on PM Scott Morrison over borders. Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles has accused Scott Morrison of putting

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