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The Inconvenient Truth About the Reef Will Out

Never hold an inquiry unless you know the outcome. Never ask a question unless you already know the answer. Both of these adages hold true with regard to two ongoing public inquiries in Australia. One, the Bushfires Royal Commission, has panned out more or less exactly as feared: a soapbox

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About Those “Black Deaths in Custody”

About Those “Black Deaths in Custody”

Politics, the saying goes, is downstream from culture. Just as many in Australia are quick to ape the latest cultural trends from America, they’re only too eager to jump on the latest stateside political bandwagon. Case in point: Black Lives Matter. The fact that BLM is nothing more than

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Andrews Is a “Grubby, Rotten” Dictator

Andrews Is a “Grubby, Rotten” Dictator

David “Jim” Penman – the “Jim” of Jim’s Mowing – is nobody’s fool. An historian who graduated with Honours from La Trobe university, Penman started mowing lawns to get by while completing his PhD. Nearly 40 years later, his Jim’s Group is an international success story. Penman describes his

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Fruit Picking Is Just So Relaxing, Darling

Fruit Picking Is Just So Relaxing, Darling

Look, we rural folk know that public servants and journalists haven’t the faintest clue what life is really like outside the latte belt. But do they have to make it so obvious? When former PM Julia Gillard went on a “fact-finding” tour to darkest Rooty Hill, she packed more

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Dictator Dan’s Crown Rests Uneasy

Dictator Dan’s Crown Rests Uneasy

As video after video of over-zealous policing and story after story of isolation-induced despair and fury emerge from Victoria, it’s becoming more and more undeniable that premier Daniel Andrews has become an elected dictator. Curfews, citizens confined to home 23 hours a day and monstered by brutally fanatical police

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Save Us From the Koala!

Save Us From the Koala!

Koalas have become such a hot-button issue in NSW that they are threatening to split the state government. At issue is new state legislation that aims to preserve the creatures from supposed imminent extinction. In the wake of last summer’s bushfires, activists have claimed that koalas are in danger

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The Cruel Incompetence of the “Compassionate”

The Cruel Incompetence of the “Compassionate”

As Judith Collins wryly remarked, regarding Jacinda Ardern’s incessant prattling about “kindness”, the more a man tells you he’s honest, the more often you check your pockets. The more a progressive leader boasts that their performance is world-leading, that they are “on the right side of history”, the

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Facebook Tries to Bully the Australian Government

Facebook Tries to Bully the Australian Government

The Silicon Valley oligarchs are going to war with the Morrison government. At issue is the government’s efforts to force the tech giants to pony up some of their mountains of gold for the content they’ve been scraping for free for years. While it’s true that the

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More Freedom Walks Planned in Defiance of the Truncheons

More Freedom Walks Planned in Defiance of the Truncheons

The natives really are getting restless in Melbourne. If “Dictator Dan” Andrews thought that sending in the goon squads to kick down doors, pile onto journalists and handcuff pregnant women in their jammies was going to win hearts and minds, it appears that he was sadly mistaken. The videos of

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School Gender Creeps Crawl Out From Under Their Rocks Again

School Gender Creeps Crawl Out From Under Their Rocks Again

If there’s one thing you can say about the Long March left, they’re persistent. And, like the Maoists their strategy takes its name and inspiration from, dab hands at sneakery and treachery. The Maoists took persistent advantage of the naivete and openness of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists to

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Dutton Calls Out Lockdown Cruelties

When Jacinda Ardern slammed the panic button and plunged New Zealand into stage four restrictions, the results were a direct contrast to her constant yammering about “kindness” and “compassion”. The “Team of Five Million” quickly found that some of them were being left on the benches in no uncertain terms.

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Law Change Only Protects Paedophiles

Law Change Only Protects Paedophiles

Many of our most long-standing legal rights are being slowly and steadily eroded in the name of “victim’s rights”. For instance, a man charged with rape is forbidden from telling the court that his accuser is a serial false accuser. A father cleared by every court of abusing his

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