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
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
