Jacinda Ardern’s landslide election is widely – and almost certainly, rightly – attributed to her handling of the Wuhan pandemic. But it is also true that Ardern was able to capitalise on the Chinese virus because voters are yet to really feel the effects of her panicked resort to lockdowns and
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news FORMER Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, took to Twitter to share an opinion published in the Sydney Morning Herald this week by leftist academic Osmond Chiu. When he’s not writing incredibly whiney fluff, Chiu does research for a ‘progressive’ think tank. As race baiters do,
Gladys Berejiklian has become the Fairy Princess of the right. The right of politics are zealously defending their favoured female leader against reputational attacks and staunchly maintaining that she is a strong, capable leader. That last assertion was already looking shaky enough. The Ruby Princess fiasco, for instance, was a
Christine. Monica. Stormy… Gladys. The annals of political sex scandals are rarely adorned with women named Gladys. But then, the women in political sex scandals are usually the ones embarrassing male politicians. This time it’s a female leader in the hot seat, embarrassed by her connection with a ne’
Economist Thomas Sowell warns, in Basic Economics, that no matter how well-intentioned, government interventions in the housing market almost invariably result in a short supply and increasing cost. New Zealanders who’ve watched the Ardern government’s spectacularly failed Kiwibuild policy have grim experience of this economic rule. But
Despite the endless temper-tantrums of the left, we in Australia are lucky that we have at least some counterweight to relentless group-think in the mainstream media. Unlike the endless, mindless fawning of most, left-leaning, news media, papers like The Australian retain enough of their critical faculties to
The wheels are fast falling off Dan Andrews’s clown-car dictatorship. Another high-ranking head has rolled, bringing the axe one step closer to the premier’s own neck; the public tide is inexorably turning against lockdowns and even Andrews himself is tacitly admitting that his extraordinary lockdowns have
Finally, one person at least in the Victorian government has remembered something. A strange, COVID-induced amnesia had otherwise spread through Victoria’s government and bureaucracy as they were called to front the Coates Inquiry into the botched hotel quarantine program which unleashed a wave of infections and deaths. The
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is madness
The increasingly shrill defenders of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews are often particularly outraged by references to “Dictator Dan”. If you can criticise the premier on Facebook, they shriek, you’re not in a dictatorship! Except that, as we see, Victorians criticise the premier on Facebook at their peril. Zoe Bruhler,
What can you honestly say about a community so steeped in violence and abuse that its teachers need security fences to safeguard their lives? These are the same communities where STDs in children are endemic, domestic violence rampant – and where five year-old boys are gang-raped by other children.
Will Victorians soon be boasting that Dan Andrews made the trains run on time? They’re a weird bunch, my old home-staters. For decades, Victoria was solidly conservative, with the Bolte and Hamer Liberal governments leading the state for a solid quarter-century. But, from the 80s on, Victoria
The Wuhan Plague has at least a couple of silver linings. Firstly, it’s given the rude shock that much of the world needed to wake up to the fact that at the end of the day, they’ve been dealing with a communist dictatorship. Consequently, many nations are seeking
Governments throwing around money is always going to be politically popular. But, as Margaret Thatcher famously noted, sooner or later governments run out of other peoples’ money. When the Rudd government announced its first stimulus measure in the face of the GFC – a $900 cash payment to all Australians – the
As I wrote this week, the great economic danger facing Australia as it struggles – hopefully – out of COVID panic is an explosion in government debt. Debt is not of course an evil in itself, as any business which has ever taken out a loan to finance growth knows. But, as
