In the final episode of the classic comedy The Young Ones, postman Lennie Henry greets the lads with, “Gut morgen, meine kleine freundelische!” “Bloody hell,” says Rik. “Give them a uniform and they think they’re Hitler!” The same might be said for bureaucrats and coppers given a taste of
Repressive police state, massive government spending, millions left dependent on Big Nanny, probably for years – what wouldn’t a leftist love about our governments’ panicked responses to the Chinese virus? Which explains why they’re jumping on the bandwagon with obscene haste. Left-wing activist group GetUp, despite its protestations of
The Morrison government recently announced that it was lowering the threshold for screening foreign acquisitions in Australia to $0. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg promised that all foreign investments would be scrutinised to protect the national interest. Politicians such as Pauline Hanson and George Christensen have expressed little confidence in the Foreign
As I recently wrote, police forces across the Western world are arbitrarily abusing their new-found powers as governments impose increasingly onerous lock-downs in response to the Chinese virus. Now, police are shocked – shocked! – to discover that citizens aren’t exactly pleased with that. One of the state’s most senior
As Australians are dragged into the same lockdowns as New Zealand, we should expect that those in charge and on the front line are the best we have. But the shocking cluster of infections and deaths in regional Tasmania undermine that confidence, one way or the other. If rumours about
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The trials of Cardinal George Pell are perhaps the most consequential in Australian legal, media and social spheres in decades. But their lessons will almost certainly be ignored. The legal system, especially in Victoria, will engage in assiduous arse-covering. Victorian Police Minister, the unflushable Labor hack Lisa Neville, has already
As one journalist recently noted, Australians in NSW went to bed one night and woke up in the morning in a police state. Overnight, the state’s government, in lockstep with most other Australian states, had passed “emergency laws” restricting citizens to their homes, except for…well, nobody’s exactly
Socialist police states always have their nomenklatura – the privileged elite who fancy themselves above the law. As New Zealand turns into Stasiland-with-Sheep, its own nomenklatura are emerging. Simon Bridges commuting the length of the North Island, and David Clark jaunting off to his favourite walking and cycling spots, while everyone
As usual, Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developmens on both sides of the Tasman. Due to the lockdown, Tim does not have access to his usual studio and we’re only streaming on The Unshackled’s channel. There has been some other news other
Alan Jones is not, it seems safe to say, Mr. Popularity inside the Canberra Bubble. Not that he ever was: the public service (which is almost half of the entire population of Canberra) is notoriously left-leaning, so the right-wing radio firebrand nicknamed “The Parrot” is guaranteed to send the taxpayer-funded
Orwell described what he called “negative nationalism”, a “derisive and mildly hostile attitude” to their own country. It was, he wrote, a “more or less compulsory…[but] unfaked in many cases” attitude among the left-intelligentsia. Put simply, the left-intelligentsia enjoy kicking their country whenever they can. So when Tony Abbott
I guess you could award Australia Post an A for business savvy and adapting its model to a rapidly changing commercial environment. On the other hand, they surely deserve an F for their tin ear. Public anger is running white-hot at revelations that Beijing-backed businesses quietly stripped essential medical supplies
As Australia rapidly descends into what seems indistinguishable from a police state*, the rozzers are out in force, ready to hand out fines for any defiant souls daring to poke their noses out of their doors without a state-sanctioned excuse. Some of the police actions seem excusable, such as backpackers
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said today that the state will not consider easing restrictions for at least six months. As the winter of viral discontent grips us ever harder, Australians and New Zealanders are starting to ask, rightly enough, just when will the lockdowns end? What’s the exit
It’s a common story right now: ‘stranded overseas travellers’ begging the Australian and New Zealand governments to ‘rescue’ them from their plight. We might be inclined to take them more seriously if it weren’t that so many of them appear to be victims of nothing more than their
