As I recently wrote, the horrorshow of the Victorian government’s hotel quarantine program may well blow up in premier Daniel Andrews’ face in a very personal way. The Victorian stands to be prosecuted under the draconian “industrial manslaughter” laws that Andrews himself enacted at the behest of his union
The bureaucratic class is an incestuous beast whose gluttony is never satisfied. We’ve all seen it in action: a company “restructures” and “downsizes” and, by some strange miracle, coalface workers are either laid off or expected to do more and more work with less and less people, but the
The revelation that a clandestine army of Western academics has been secretly stealing and selling sensitive research to the Chinese Communist Party is shocking enough. That Australia’s universities are hosting dozens of these scientific Quislings is even worse. The Chinese government is actively recruiting leading Australian scientists for a
As I recently wrote, it may be time to bulldoze the universities. At the time, I was, of course, (half) joking. The joke is getting less and less funny as we learn more and more of how our universities are steadily betraying the very foundations of Western society. It’s
I’ve never been a fan of Bronwyn Bishop, not least for her blatant trougherism when she was caught using a government-funded helicopter to go from Melbourne to Geelong for a party beano. That said, though, even people we ordinarily despise can be right sometimes. And when Bishop says that
Daniel Andrews has ruled the state of Victoria (with as iron a fist and as unhinged a cult of personality as Mao) for ten years. But Chairman Dan’s reign may be coming to an end, with a Gang of Four gunning for his head. The trigger for Andrews’ likely
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It’s an understatement to say that I’m no fan of blowhard billionaire Clive Palmer. Palmer is a braggadocious, shonky used-car salesman incarnate as a resource billionaire. And he foisted Jacqui Lambie on we long-suffering Tasmanians. That said, the West Australian government’s treatment of Palmer is a shocking
Throughout the quagmire of disastrous ineptitude that is the Victorian government’s handling of the Wuhan virus outbreak, Premier Daniel Andrews has spun, blame-shifted and lied, lied, lied. Now the biggest, most shocking lie of the Andrews government has been exposed. The impetus for Victoria’s harsh lockdown and curfew
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms return in a new episode of TTT as both Auckland and Melbourne appear to have Round 2 of the CCP Virus under control.
The scale of the disaster unleashed by the Andrews government’s botched hotel quarantine scheme just keeps unrolling, from one mind-boggling idiocy to another. After refusing Commonwealth assistance (especially Australian Defence Force personnel), the Victorian government handed the scheme to private contractors – something no other state did. Then, it selected
A memorable line from Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 comes when lead flight director Gene Kranz learns that the CO2 scrubbers for the Command and Lunar modules use different-shaped cartridges. “Tell me this isn’t a government operation,” he mutters in exasperation. The Australian and New Zealand responses to the
It may be a disaster for most of us, but COVID-19 – or, more correctly, government responses to it – has been a big winner for a chosen few. I’m not talking about the bennies being gifted a windfall of double payments for keeping on doing what they were (sitting on
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews looks set to be hoist on his own petard in the most spectacular fashion. In 2004, the Bracks Labor government enacted strong occupational health and safety legislation. The Bracks legislation made it easy for individuals to trigger action for breaches of OH&S – with the
Australia has a rich tradition of editorial cartooning, and Johannes Leak is shaping up as one of the greats. It’s not entirely surprising, perhaps: his father, the late Bill Leak, was indisputably one of the best ever. Johannes has inherited not just his father’s sharp eye and draftsmanship,
