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,
“Diversity is our strength” is the robotic mantra of woke, multi-culti left. The Australian state of Victoria is a stark rebuttal of this “progressive” nostrum. In selecting who should run its critical hotel quarantine regime, Victoria placed “diversity and inclusion” far, far ahead of any other consideration. Now, nearly 300
“Papers!” The heel-clicking functionary barking demands to see the official papers of terrified citizens is a stock image of WWII movies. As is the desperate scramble to get official travel documents. But this is the reality of 2020 for many Australians. Melbournians are not only under curfew for the first
I’ve said it more times than I wish I had to, but the grim fact is that Jacinda Ardern has, for the foreseeable future, locked New Zealand into a bleak cycle of infections and lockdowns. The plain fact is that SARS-CoV-2, the Wuhan virus, is not going away. A
Oh, to have a leader like Jacinda Ardern! Oh, hell, no, thank you very much. The New Zealand prime minister, already a rock star amongst that tiny, incredibly privileged sliver of humanity that is the left-elite, sent her tiny legion of adoring fans into fresh paroxysms with her self-proclamation that
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms return in a new episode of TTT as both Auckland and Melbourne suffer together in lockdown as the dreaded China Virus runs rampant. Subscribe to be notified when we go live, usually every Friday at 8pm.
Robert Bridge strategic-culture.org The citizens of Australia’s second most populous city are suffering under the harshest lockdown conditions of all Western democracies. Their voices need to be heard. In the last several weeks, Melbourne has introduced shockingly draconian anti-COVID measures, imposed on the metropolis of some 5 million
Christopher Hitchens famously said of Margaret Thatcher, “the rodent slowly stirring in my viscera[ was] the uneasy but unbanishable feeling that on some essential matters she might be right”. I feel much the same way about former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. Oh, how I detested Kennett when he was premier
