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
There are tentative signs that Victoria’s disastrous COVID-19 failure may be running its course as infections appear to plateau, but the political failure in the state rages unchecked. It’s fair to say that almost every aspect of Victoria’s fiasco can be sheeted home to the Victorian state
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news It’s remarkable to me how many lockdown apologists in the Mainstream media and armchairs around Australia are seizing upon mere conjecture as support for their argument to destroy the healthcare, natural freedoms and economy of 25 million Australians with the clumsily blunt response to yet
It’s almost certain that, despite Daniel Andrews’s constant mantra of “I don’t know”, nearly every case in Victoria’s surge in COVID-19 infections is linked to the state’s bungled hotel quarantine regime. But it’s only now becoming clear just how badly the programme was bungled.
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. Pure and Sterile Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef is once again the excuse for extending Green control of all land and waters. Their current scare concerns the
Michelle Grattan University of Canberra COVID-19 has now made us two Australias. There’s Victoria – most specifically Melbourne – and then there’s the rest of the country. Melbourne’s extraordinary lockdown complete with curfew is an act of desperation by Daniel Andrews’ government, as it fights a daily tally of
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Healthy Australians have been forced into various stages of lockdown since 21 March: four and a half months ago. The Good Sauce · Pellowe Talk Editorial At no stage did we ever think lock down was a sustainable measure. We were told we only had to flatten
Eighties Australian pop group Little Heroes once sang that “Melbourne just isn’t New York”, but in terms of COVID-19 in Australia, Melbourne is not just New York, but Milan and London to boot. The situation in Victoria lurches from disaster to disaster. Disaster almost entirely of the Andrews’ government’
Satire is having a hard time keeping ahead of reality, these days. Within scant hours of One Nation MP Mark Latham putting up a satirical Facebook post asking why Paul’s “Smarter White” Milk hadn’t been cancelled, professional whinger Dr Stephen Hagan announced his new bitch’n’moan campaign.
As the Drew Pavlou affair has exposed, Australian universities are increasingly in thrall to the thuggish Chinese Communist Party. The same academics who screech and thunder about “academic freedom” at the very notion of a dedicated course in Western Civilisation, happily fall to their knees the instant Beijing’s bully
Adrian Esterman University of South Australia Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced that metropolitan Melbourne will move to “stage 4” restrictions from 6pm Sunday, as new cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. The state recorded another 671 cases and 7 deaths on Sunday. Andrews has declared a state of disaster
You gotta hand it to them: outside the Balkans or some feuding Appalachian hillbillies, nobody hates with quite the undying passion of the left. Case in point: former rugby player and scribbler of alleged ‘histories’, Peter FitzSimons. “Pirate” Pete has pursued record-breaking rugby player Israel Folau with a tenacity exceeding
As the COVID-19 situation in Victoria continues to spiral out of control, Premier Daniel Andrews doggedly avoids shouldering the least responsibility. Andrews has blamed practically everyone in Victoria but himself. Yet, while there’s some truth in his argument that too many people are flouting restrictions and behaving poorly, by
Just as the Ardern government apparently acted illegally in at least the initial stages of its lockdown, questions have been repeatedly raised in Australia about the constitutionality of various state government responses. Legal experts have especially questioned whether border closures are in breach of section 92 of the Constitution. As
