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“Find Other Markets”: Government’s China Advice

“Find Other Markets”: Government’s China Advice

The Xi regime is bringing the iron fist down in no uncertain terms, both at home and abroad. At home, the Chinese Communist Party summarily squashed what would have been the world’s biggest stockmarket debut when it abruptly suspended the IPO of Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. Abroad,

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Australian Government Cracks Down on China Deals

Australian Government Cracks Down on China Deals

While New Zealand seems certain to join a conga-line of third-world banana republics happy to dance for China’s BRI handouts, the Australian government is moving to slash the strings that are firmly tied to Beijing’s seeming largesse. First in the Morrison government’s sights are clueless, socialist state

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China’s Trade War Is a Winner for Locals

China’s Trade War Is a Winner for Locals

Tasmania is famous for producing some of the world’s best seafood, wine and lamb. Not that Tasmanians ever get much chance of enjoying the bounty of their own state: even if we’re prepared to pay through the nose for certain local produce, we end up getting the leavings

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The Pell Plot Thickens

The Pell Plot Thickens

It reads like the plot of a Dan Brown potboiler: a high-ranking Vatican official embezzling, money-laundering and bribing, casting a net of corruption all the way to Australia. A Cardinal on the brink of exposing the whole, dark web is brought down by false charges of child molesting. Unlike Brown’

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Sports Bureaucrats Have Been Captured by Trans Ideology

Sports Bureaucrats Have Been Captured by Trans Ideology

Claire Chandler mercatornet.com Claire Chandler is a senator for Tasmania. For several months now, Rugby Australia has been in possession of a transgender participation guideline developed by World Rugby in consultation with developmental biologists, medical experts and sport scientists. The World Rugby Guideline runs to 38 pages. It has

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No Precautionary Principle for You, Ladies

No Precautionary Principle for You, Ladies

“Progressives” are very big on the so-called “Precautionary Principle” – when it suits them. When they want to shut down a mining development, because it might endanger some previously-unknown species of obscure earthworm, why, it’s “precautionary principle!” screamed to the rooftops. On the other hand, when progressives assert that there’

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Dan’s $2m Man Another Labor Mate

Dan’s $2m Man Another Labor Mate

There’s no end to the gravy train for Labor mates in Victoria. Including $2m awarded without competitive tender to a firm run by a former Labor candidate, to run a secretive spin doctor program while Victorians were under virtual house arrest. A Labor strategist who boasts that “public opinion

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Will Victoria’s Journalists Start Doing Their Job?

Will Victoria’s Journalists Start Doing Their Job?

There were two years between the Watergate break-in and Richard Nixon’s resignation. There was a similar break between Bill Clinton’s infamous Oval Office dalliance and his impeachment trial. In both cases, what was judged most damning was not so much the initial wrongdoing, but the lies and cover-ups

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Dan Can’t Make the Trains Run on Time – or Keep Them Clean

Dan Can’t Make the Trains Run on Time – or Keep Them Clean

Despite the wave of convenient amnesia sweeping Victoria’s government and bureaucracy, some key facts have emerged about that state’s disastrously botched hotel quarantine scheme. Most damning of all was the decision to award the security contract on the basis of ‘diversity and inclusion’ rather than capability. Then there’

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The Preventable Death of Melbourne

The Preventable Death of Melbourne

Daniel Andrews has broken his promise to the people of Victoria and broken the spirit of one of the world’s great cities. He’s also breaking the bank of the entire nation. I only lived in Melbourne for six months, but I worked in and regularly visited the city

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Victoria Police: “Protesting Is Not Unlawful, It’s a Human Right”

Victoria Police: “Protesting Is Not Unlawful, It’s a Human Right”

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius gave a press conference yesterday regarding police enforcement activity over the upcoming grand final long weekend. Good Sauce guest commentator Topher Field had this to say about his stunning admissions: “Protesting is not unlawful, it’s a human right.” Watch

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Victorian Lockdown Blamed for Infant Deaths

Victorian Lockdown Blamed for Infant Deaths

It was way back in May when I described state responses to the Wuhan pandemic as “the Moloch Option”. The cult of lockdown and restriction that has gripped Western governments is effectively sacrificing the young to save a small minority of the very old and very, very unhealthy. I was

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You Can’t Polish a Turd Just by Changing Its Name

You Can’t Polish a Turd Just by Changing Its Name

You can put sprinkles on a dog turd. You can even try calling it “chocolate ice cream”. But that won’t make it taste any better. Similarly, renaming a dodgy bunch of eco-terrorists doesn’t change the fact that they’re radicals threatening the nation’s farmers in the name

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Disappearing Daigou Hint at China’s Economic Reality

Disappearing Daigou Hint at China’s Economic Reality

Launceston has long grown accustomed to empty shopfronts in its CBD, a trend only exacerbated by the Wuhan plague. So, when a new shopfront opens it naturally piques local interest. The more so when the shop sports entirely Chinese-language livery, is stocked with row upon row of baby formula – and

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Give Us Convenience – Give Us (Someone Else’s) Death

Give Us Convenience – Give Us (Someone Else’s) Death

The Soviets promised their people a worker’s paradise on earth – and delivered one of the most brutally murderous regimes of misery history has known. Such is the way of the left, whose high-falutin’ rhetoric and grossly inflated self-regard is at stark odds with the realities of their policy prescriptions.

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