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China’s $39bn Fortress on Australia’s Doorstep

China’s $39bn Fortress on Australia’s Doorstep

Yet again, the Chinese Communist Party is weaponising the moronic greed of a South Pacific panjandrum ruling a running-down island state desperate for cash. No, I’m not talking about Jacinda Ardern inching ever-closer to the poisoned carrot that is Xi Xinping’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. Papua

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We’ve Been Erased by Victorian Politicians

We’ve Been Erased by Victorian Politicians

Leah Gray mercatornet.com I am an ex-lesbian, as well as someone who experienced gender dysphoria as a child. Now I am married to a patient and gracious man and have a young son. Ten years ago I voluntarily sought counsel from Christian psychologists, ministries, support networks and people

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Labour Are Selling NZ’s Soul

Labour Are Selling NZ’s Soul

From Goethe’s classic Faust to Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore’s comedic version, Bedazzled, the message has always been clear: fools deal with the Devil at their peril. No matter how glittering the prize the Prince of Liars dangles before the naive and greedy, the Devil always wins – and

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Scotty from Marketing Strikes Again

Scotty from Marketing Strikes Again

“Scotty from Marketing” is yet another inane hashtag sneer from the Twitter left. If only it wasn’t so damned on-point. On the one hand, Scott Morrison genuinely deserves to be lauded for holding a strong line against China’s trade and diplomatic bullying. On the other, domestic, front,

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Desperately Seeking “Far-Right Extremists”

Desperately Seeking “Far-Right Extremists”

They seek them here, they seek them there: those lefties, they search everywhere. Are they on Twitter? Or are they on Telegram? Those damned elusive “Far-Right” bogey-men. We keep getting told that “far-right extremists” are a bigger threat than Islamic terrorism. Just ignore the facts. Despite over

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‘Change the Date’ Changes Nothing Important

‘Change the Date’ Changes Nothing Important

It’s as predictable as a pigeon pooing on a freshly-washed car. It’s the highlight of every leftist miseryguts’s year: whinging and carping about Australia Day. As in so much else surrounding “indigenous issues”, there’s a glaring disconnect between the virtue-signalling parades of city-based,

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Another Outbreak of the Madness of Virus Dictators

Another Outbreak of the Madness of Virus Dictators

Have our politicians and bureaucrats gone collectively insane? Or are they just so hopelessly addicted to the absolute power they’ve seized, courtesy of the Chinese virus, that they will do absolutely anything to get another fix? How else can you explain the madness that is sending public policy screaming

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One, Two – Bend over and Do the Kiwi Kowtow!

One, Two – Bend over and Do the Kiwi Kowtow!

The extraordinary intervention of the government of “New Xi-Land” (as one tabloid dubbed it) in China’s trade and diplomatic war assault on Australia has not gone unnoticed. As I wrote for The BFD, Jacinda Ardern and her government appear to have decided just whose side they’re on

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Victoria to Extend “State of Emergency” until 2022

Victoria to Extend “State of Emergency” until 2022

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scanning the annals of history, it’s rather telling that a bare handful of dictators, left or right, have voluntarily ceded their power. Pinochet or King Juan Carlos I, for instance, or Daniel Ortega or Julius Nyerere. Further back, perhaps George Washington, or his

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A Busted Two-Bob Watch Is Almost Right

A Busted Two-Bob Watch Is Almost Right

Even a busted Labor party two-bob watch can be right at least once a day. Sadly, that’s about the best spin I can put on Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles’s attack on PM Scott Morrison over borders. Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles has accused Scott Morrison of

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Hide the Dan-cline  and the Deaths

Hide the Dan-cline and the Deaths

Mao famously shrugged off the news of millions of deaths in the Great Leap Forward by saying, “If you cut off one finger, you still have nine”. Frankly, Mao was an amateur at such callous spin-doctoring, compared to modern-day leftists like the “Chairman Dan” Andrews. What Mao should

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Yet Another Hotel Quarantine Cock-Up

Yet Another Hotel Quarantine Cock-Up

Another day in Australia, another incompetent state government panicking and slamming down the iron fist of lockdowns, after its own mismanagement allows the Chinese virus to break forth once more. Every major outbreak of the Wuhan plague in Australia can be traced back to a failure by government, from the

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Twiggy, How Do You Sleep at Night?

Twiggy, How Do You Sleep at Night?

How does Twiggy Forrest sleep with himself? I mean, probably on Charlotte Thomas “Bespoke” bedsheets, made with merino wool, 1000-count Egyptian cotton and 22-carat gold thread, sure. At the same time, though, one can’t help but wonder if he is ever troubled by the yawning disconnect between

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Grab Your Hairshirts! It’s Misery Day! (Satire)

Grab Your Hairshirts! It’s Misery Day! (Satire)

Dame EileenToomeyWright “Dame EileenToomeyWright: Twitter refugee. Gay married conservative, 60+yo male from Australia. Parody, humour, socio-political commentary, cooking. My name is my politics. Say it out loud.” Information Satire The year is 2041 and the Republic of Australia has just had VSGGD (Voluntary Secular Gift-Giving Day), formerly

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