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
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. Both Tasman nations are engaged in a numbers game but of different kinds. New Zealand is is counting down the days until the September election and crunching the electoral math. Australia is watching the
The signs of China’s economic reach are being felt even as far away as here in Tasmania – and so are the much darker signs of its covert political meddling. When the Van Diemen’s Land Company, Australia’s oldest dairy, and its farming land in the northwest of the
Things are going from bad to worse with Victoria’s sudden surge in COVID-19, and still, Premier Daniel Andrews is resolutely refusing to acknowledge any responsibility. First, he blamed “multicultural communities”, then it was workers, now it’s aged-care workers and providers, even the federal government. Never mind the damning
It looks as though Peter Dutton has yet another Kiwi crim to add to his “To-Be-Deported” list. Let’s see Jacinda Ardern try to protest the human rights of this particularly nasty piece of work. A New Zealand man will serve 13 years in jail for his “cold, continuous and
When Julia Gillard was prime minister, any mention of her attire was sure to be met with outraged screeching from the Lady Pages of the media. Even feminist icon Germaine Greer wasn’t spared the wrath of the Fright Bat Inquisition. The taxpayer-funded woke-media, the ABC was particularly indignant on
Out of all the mess and panic of state government reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, a glimmer of sense is at least emerging in Tasmania. Like New Zealand, a sparsely-populated, remote island lacking substantial public transport networks, Tasmania is well-placed to avoid the worst effects of the pandemic. Nonetheless, despite
There’s a reason that Mark Latham’s leadership was the last time I voted Labor. “Latho” was the last gasp of working-class orneriness in a supposed “party of the worker” that had transformed into the party of the Arts-Law graduate. That blue-collar larrikin streak is also what has made
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has perfected the Bart Simpson response: I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can’t prove a thing. Andrews first tested this line during the Red Shirts scandal but has since made it a dark political art. Nowhere more so than in
