You know, even I was worried that I was descending into hyperbole when I described Victoria’s government as “tyrannical”. I needn’t have worried. While Victoria’s COVID-19 infections and deaths are fast dropping (almost certainly despite, rather than because of, anything the government has done), the Andrews government
Is Jacinda Ardern getting worried about her re-election chances? Labour still comfortably leads the polls but, ominously, that lead has slid by up to ten points in the past few months. Then there’s Ardern’s lacklustre performance at the leaders’ debate. So, Ardern can’t afford any more bad
There’s a reason I call my former home state “Cucktoria”. Victoria long ago overtook South Australia as the nation’s most left-wing state. Worse, no matter how many scandals the Andrews government racked up – Redshirts, the CFA – Victorians remained apparently blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. Even as the
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If you ever doubt that we live in a Clown World, just remember that Australian governments use taxpayers’ money to fund organisations whose specific purpose is to oppose government decisions. “Environmental Defenders Offices” exist purely to stymie developments already approved by governments. In effect, these quangos are taxpayer-funded green lobbyists.
Driving along one of Tasmania’s two major highways (yes, we do have them!) the other day, there was a snarl of traffic banked up for kilometres behind a slow-moving load. Once the road reached an overtaking section (OK, we’re not flash enough to have dual carriageways all the
Politicians forget that swords have two edges at their peril. Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is already at risk of being cut cruelly by his own sword once. The “industrial manslaughter” laws he created are being used to force an investigation into his bungled hotel quarantine scheme which unleashed Victoria’s
Turns out I’m not the only journalist to notice the worrying similarities between Daniel Andrews and Jacinda Ardern. Both are socialists who are slavishly devoted to every fashionable leftist cause. Their inane commieraderie is evident from their giggling, fangirl photo-op during Ardern’s visit last year. And, as socialists
Hypocrisy, incompetence and blame-shifting, while Wuhan virus infections just keep climbing – I’m talking, of course, about the Australian state of Victoria, aka “Dandrewstan”. But the deadly lessons of Victoria ought to send a shiver down the spines of New Zealanders – because the Ardern government seems to be following the
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be talking the right talk when it comes to potentially opening up some areas of New Zealand with some Australian regions. Morrison made the announcement following a series of meetings on Thursday and Friday last week. “ScoMo” said the issue came up on
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Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news There may soon be no need to commit actual crimes or break any real laws for heavy-handed police in Victoria to detain residents if Premier Daniel Andrews has his way eroding democracy, again. The Victorian Labor government will debate laws granting police power to detain anyone
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
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
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
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
