The wheels of justice grind slowly, as the saying goes, but they grind exceedingly fine. Despite a litany of denials and official amnesia, the inquiry into Victoria’s hotel quarantine disaster is inching ever-closer to holding those responsible accountable. Already, then-health minister Jenny Mikakos has been rolled by her own
Would you believe that New Zealanders have a guaranteed right to freedom of speech? It’s right there in the New Zealand Bill of Rights: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, including the right to adopt and to hold opinions without interference and Everyone
Once again, it seems that Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is either telling porkies or is just the world’s second-most clueless leader. Andrews has, it must be remembered, repeatedly denied any knowledge of when or by whom it was decided to use private security guards for the state’s botched
The long-delayed “trans-Tasman bubble” is finally starting to open – and Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is caught out again. The first planeloads of passengers were allowed to enter Australia from New Zealand on the weekend. Most went to Sydney, but 65 Kiwis landed right in Australia’s COVID shithole, Melbourne, sparking
Jacinda Ardern’s landslide election is widely – and almost certainly, rightly – attributed to her handling of the Wuhan pandemic. But it is also true that Ardern was able to capitalise on the Chinese virus because voters are yet to really feel the effects of her panicked resort to lockdowns and
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news FORMER Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, took to Twitter to share an opinion published in the Sydney Morning Herald this week by leftist academic Osmond Chiu. When he’s not writing incredibly whiney fluff, Chiu does research for a ‘progressive’ think tank. As race baiters do,
Gladys Berejiklian has become the Fairy Princess of the right. The right of politics are zealously defending their favoured female leader against reputational attacks and staunchly maintaining that she is a strong, capable leader. That last assertion was already looking shaky enough. The Ruby Princess fiasco, for instance, was a
Christine. Monica. Stormy… Gladys. The annals of political sex scandals are rarely adorned with women named Gladys. But then, the women in political sex scandals are usually the ones embarrassing male politicians. This time it’s a female leader in the hot seat, embarrassed by her connection with a ne’
Economist Thomas Sowell warns, in Basic Economics, that no matter how well-intentioned, government interventions in the housing market almost invariably result in a short supply and increasing cost. New Zealanders who’ve watched the Ardern government’s spectacularly failed Kiwibuild policy have grim experience of this economic rule. But it’
Despite the endless temper-tantrums of the left, we in Australia are lucky that we have at least some counterweight to relentless group-think in the mainstream media. Unlike the endless, mindless fawning of most, left-leaning, news media, papers like The Australian retain enough of their critical faculties to see easily through
The wheels are fast falling off Dan Andrews’s clown-car dictatorship. Another high-ranking head has rolled, bringing the axe one step closer to the premier’s own neck; the public tide is inexorably turning against lockdowns and even Andrews himself is tacitly admitting that his extraordinary lockdowns have been a
Finally, one person at least in the Victorian government has remembered something. A strange, COVID-induced amnesia had otherwise spread through Victoria’s government and bureaucracy as they were called to front the Coates Inquiry into the botched hotel quarantine program which unleashed a wave of infections and deaths. The inquiry
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is madness
The increasingly shrill defenders of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews are often particularly outraged by references to “Dictator Dan”. If you can criticise the premier on Facebook, they shriek, you’re not in a dictatorship! Except that, as we see, Victorians criticise the premier on Facebook at their peril. Zoe Bruhler,
What can you honestly say about a community so steeped in violence and abuse that its teachers need security fences to safeguard their lives? These are the same communities where STDs in children are endemic, domestic violence rampant – and where five year-old boys are gang-raped by other children. But it’
