… and will never do so again. There were a couple of reasons why I stopped donating. The first was because so many charities are effectively political activists these days. If I donate to a cause, I want the money to go to that cause, not to political advertising or activism.
For such a normally astute politician, Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, was shockingly wrong-footed by Australia’s bushfire crisis and the political and media hysteria that followed. Slowly, the government is moving to recover from the political firestorm. While presumably judging – correctly, as it happens – that the federal government’s
On a high-school trip to Central Australia in the early 1980s, we paid a visit to a camel farm. The cameleer was very an old-school Territorian bushie, all leathery skin, beard and no-bullshit attitude. When someone asked about Aboriginal culture, his answer shocked all of us. “A lot of people’
As the ashes cool from Australia’s catastrophic bushfires, there are big questions to be grasped. Why did they happen, and what can we do about it? To that end, the Morrison government is hinting that it will convene a royal commission. As the saying goes, never hold an inquiry
Humans have an unfortunate tendency to view the peculiarities of their particular time and place as a kind of immutable standard. But, as Heracleitus wrote so long ago, “all is flux”. Change is the only constant in nature. Too many Australians today think that the “natural” state of the land
New figures regarding domestic homicide in Australia contain both good and bad news. The good news is that domestic homicide has declined dramatically, to its lowest-ever recorded levels. The bad news is that it persists particularly in two key demographics. Both of those are very bad news for the feminist
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Politicians hide behind enquiries – their magic answer to all problems, especially bushfires. Announcing enquiries give the impression of decisive action, they generate fees for armies of barristers, lawyers and bureaucrats, and provide momentary excitement for the media. The proposed 2020 Australian Bushfires corrobboree will provide a
If the Queensland Labor government gets its way, it will soon be illegal in that state to do anything other than mutilate and likely sterilise the bodies of gender-confused young children. What’s worse, this shocking law cloaks itself in a false veneer of “compassion”, shouting down all opposition as
The Green-left are like the sort of gullible rubes who’ll happily buy any old tat, so long as the seller waves their hands and mysteriously intones some mumbo-jumbo about “wooo…ancient wisdom”. Or Mrs Costanza on Seinfeld, who thought that something was only “wise” so long as it came
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com Some people feign shock at the claim #DragQueensAreNotForKids. Warning CONTENT WARNING: Although every effort has been made to maturely avoid needless sensationalism, the following article includes references and links to adult sexual concepts which some readers will find offensive. If you are not an adult, ask
It’s an old idea, deeply ingrained in the Anglo-Celtic imagination, that the “Blessed Isles” lie just across the sea. Of course, in most European lore, those magical fantasy-lands were in the west. But, in the fairy-tale world of the Australian left, the Big Rock Candy Island lies east, across
US president Donald Trump has stared down the mandarins of China and sealed a huge first win in his trade war with the communist state. The Chinese have blinked and handed the US an enormous range of concessions. But, while the deal is a yuge deal for America, it contains
As the Australian media-elite relentlessly hammers its “climate emergency” narrative during Australia’s bushfire crisis, many citizen journalists have been digging through Australia’s available old newspapers, turning up story after story to debunk hyperbolic media claims. The Green-left have been doing some digging, too. The Green-left, immediately and enthusiastically
As I recently wrote, Victoria has consistently failed to meet the hazard reduction targets recommended by the Black Saturday royal commission. In fact, not only has Australia’s wokest state completely failed to meet its own targets, even those targets were well short of what the royal commission recommended. Worse,
As Australia reels from the shocking death of Wilson Gavin, the young, gay conservative bullied into taking his own life by social media ‘rainbow’ thugs, outgoing Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman has indicated that social media bullying played no small part in his decision to quit. Especially when the bullies are
