Fan Yang Deakin University Robbie Fordyce Monash University Facebook’s “news ban” in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks recently. The social media platform has effectively halted all posting of links from Australian news
The world was shocked to discover that gangs of Pakistani Muslims had been allowed to prey, unchecked, on white and Sikh British girls for decades. They were allowed to get away with it because police, social workers and politicians knew all about it – and turned a blind eye. Even after
When the Chinese Communist Party brought the ban-hammer down on Australian exports, from wine to barley, they no doubt expected it to be the short, sharp shock “disrespectful” Australia needed. Instead, it was Beijing which was shocked. Far from folding immediately and begging for forgiveness (and money) from China, the
The war between Big Tech and the Australian government is heating up. First shot fired was Google threatening to pull its services from Australia entirely. Now Facebook has gone nuclear and canned all local and international news. The move is the latest in the high-stakes standoff against the Morrison government’
When it comes to the industrial-scale rape of underage girls by gangs of racist criminals, trying to identify the “worst” aspect of the abomination seems pretty pointless. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that there are some twists to the horror-show that clearly made the victims’ sufferings infinitely worse. One of those
According to One News, Kiwi international relations experts are aghast at the latest trans-Tasman war of words, which they say is proof of different values and a worsening relationship between Wellington and Canberra. Australia’s decision to strip citizenship from a dual Australian-New Zealand national currently detained in Turkey has
Ever since ditching the execrable Malcolm Turnbull, the Coalition under Scott Morrison has steadily been turning a paler shade of the deep teal it had become. Although reviled by the left-media as a deep-blue conservative, Morrison is steadily flushing greener as he endlessly panders to the shrill left on issues
Jacinda Ardern is steadily chipping away at the trans-Tasman alliance. Ardern’s incessant fish-wife scolding of her Australian counterparts might play well to her cronies and lickspittles in the NZ media, but she is relentlessly alienating New Zealand’s most important ally – at the same time that she is cosying
As I’ve written elsewhere, the Chinese Virus seems to have eaten away at whatever passed for brains in the Western political class. How else to explain such lunacy as the announcement allowing adults to sit on a park bench with one other, or COVID-infected people being rushed out of
Does the Chinese Virus rot the brain? Surely nothing else can explain the collective outbreak of mass lunacy that’s struck a great deal of the Western world – including the entirety of its media-political elite. They’ve all gone completely insane. Utter, stark-raving, barking mad. Collectively lost their ever-lovin’ minds.
How much longer will Victorians continue to #StandWithDan? In what can only be regarded as a mass-outbreak of Stockholm Syndrome, Victorians responded to being placed under virtual house-arrest, due entirely to the astonishing ineptitude of the Andrews government, by loudly cheering for the corrupt clowns who locked them up – and
If the Greens and the ALP were to be believed, Australia is just one solar panel away from banishing those nasty fossils fuels for ever. Electricity will come free from the sun, there’ll be no more bushfires and we’ll all hold hands and skip into the glorious green
Eliora The incumbent Premier of Victoria, Australia, Daniel Andrews wants a law that will make it hard for religious organisations to maintain their religious identity and culture. A Victoria government plan to crack down on Churches using prayer to change LGBI people has been branded as the biggest threat to
First, it was former union chief and MP Jennie George warning the Labor party to wake up to itself over its “zero emissions” delusions. Now, serving backbencher Joel Fitzgibbon is telling his colleagues to get a grip, ditch the watermelon fantasies, and avoid electoral oblivion. I was, I should admit,
As I reported recently, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews displayed his hitherto-unsuspected talent for stand-up comedy, when he claimed that Victoria had “higher standards” than any other state when it came to pandemic management. Dan is keeping them rolling in the aisles by following up with a classic banana-peel pratfall. Victoria
