While the Morrison government is rightly earning praise for its strong, principled stance against the Chinese regime, the fact remains that it is struggling to overcome a “silent invasion” that has spent decades white-anting Australia’s institutions, at every level. Whether it’s political parties taking literal shopping bags of
It might still be summer in Australia, but we’ve got plenty of snowflakes blowing around. A whingeing “Indigenous activist” has recently bullied Coon Cheese into changing its name. Now, in what a gay friend of mine characterises as “more flaming faggotry”, an LGBTBBQEIEIEIO activist is campaigning against another longstanding
Contrary to the popular saying, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes – and no free lunch. But the left are so wedded to the idea that anything and everything from the gub’mint is free that they’ve even come up with a fancy euphemism for it: Modern Monetary
As I’ve been reporting, the mainstream narrative over the sex scandal gripping Australia’s parliament just doesn’t add up. We’re being told that Parliament House is a hotbed of “toxic men” sexually harassing and abusing poor, shivering, female staffers and even MPs. Except that the more we
Tasmania’s annual Dark Mofo winter arts festival would be better named the “Look at Me, I’m so EDGY!” festival. The brainchild of the poker millionaire who founded the Mona gallery in Hobart, it’s of a piece with the “edgy” art gallery: a whole lot of attention-seeking tat
The latest eructation from Australia’s very own Ministries of Truth is that Islamic terrorism will no longer be called Islamic terrorism. Instead, it’s all “religiously-motivated violent extremism” – y’know, because of all those Amish terror attacks. At the same time, the Chief Spook, who has been issuing dire
When I reported on the ongoing revelations of the sordid behaviour of staffers at Parliament House – rooting in MPs’ offices, performing “solo sex acts” on desks – I noted a peculiar insinuation. While the whole, sleazy affair is being blamed on “toxic masculinity” and, surprise, surprise, being used as leverage to
Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda unit national broadcaster is absolutely unbiased. Just ask them, they’ll tell you. Just ignore all that blatant bias. This is, after all, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster whose journalists almost uniformly vote for left-wing parties: in fact, ABC staff are four times more likely to vote
In my recent series of posts on the Australia-New Zealand defence relationship, I warned that New Zealand was in growing danger of drifting further from its ANZAC partner. The most obvious point of difference recently has been China. Where Australia has become something of the poster child for Western push-back
Magic is increasingly replacing logic in Australia’s legal system. Proponents of an Aboriginal “Voice” argue that one’s ancestry somehow imparts a magical “spiritual bond” with the land that no other race can attain. Worse, Australia’s highest court endorsed at law the Aboriginal mythology of “Dreamtime”. Now we’
Kerry Packer famously told Australia’s parliament that, “Anybody in this country who does not minimise his tax wants his head read. I can tell you as a government that you are not spending it so well that we should be donating extra”. New revelations about the antics of some
George R R Martin famously wrote that, “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say. ” Outside of possibly North Korea, today’s despots don’t go in much for tongue-tearing
When Australia’s intelligence chief, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess announced that ASIO would no longer use such “stigmatising” terms as “Islamist extremism”, it provoked a storm of disbelief and derision. This announcement came just a week after it was revealed that ABC management had instructed reporters not to refer to
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
As I’ve written several times, Australians have to deal with two Scott Morrisons. There’s Scott Morrison the global statesman, justly recognised around the world for his government’s brave and resolute stance against unprecedented trade and diplomatic bullying from China. Then there’s the domestic “Scotty from Marketing”
When Chin Tan replaced execrable race-hustler Tim Soutphommasane as Australia’s race discrimination commissioner, he seemed like a breath of fresh air; a return to a semblance of sanity in an institution notorious for its Woke-extremism. With admirable commonsense, Tan rejected the notion that Australia was a racist country:
