A positive public reputation takes a long, diligent time to build, but can be destroyed in an instant. A bad reputation is all-but entrenched: kick a puppy once and nobody will ever forget it. Anthony Albanese might as well have booted Toto up the jacksie on the steps of parliament,
Nuclear energy is set to be – no pun intended – the hot-button issue of the next Australian election. After more than a decade in which voters have become increasingly frustrated with what they see as uniparty rule – the so-called “Laborals” – on climate change especially, Coalition leader Peter Dutton has finally hit
Is Australia the only country mad enough to use taxpayer’s money to fund people whose sole purpose appears to be trying to wreck the country’s prosperity? Perhaps not the only one, but certainly the most determinedly demented. Australia is the environmental lawfare “capital of the world”, according to
The Australian Greens have rarely garnered more than 11–13 per cent of the vote. Moreover, their vote is almost exclusively concentrated in the wealthiest, inner-city suburbs of the biggest cities. But it’s notable that, every time they’ve wielded political clout – always courtesy of a Labor government desperate
So, how bad is inflation in Australia? Just ask anyone who works in retail. As one retail worker recently told me, a customer was irate to discover that, in a matter of weeks, one of their favourite products had nearly doubled in price. It’s an extreme example, perhaps, but
Frankly, I’d hoped to avoid having to write anything about Julian Assange, I really had. Unfortunately, the puzzling fangirling of so many on the right for this unpleasant propagandist, and their strangely credulous willingness to parrot the talking-points of the left, conspired to force my hand. Many years ago,
Janet Hoek, University of Otago and Jude Ball, University of Otago Australia will become the first country to restrict vape sales to pharmacies from next week. This new policy represents a very different approach to the path New Zealand is taking, and includes some important steps. First, it recognises that
Any doubts that the Australian Labor Party have sold their souls to pander to the Muslim vote have been dispelled for good. The party’s kid-gloves treatment of ‘rat’ Fatima Payman gives the jig away for all to see. Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has crossed the floor to vote
If there’s one thing the new elite are good at, it’s looking after themselves. ’Twas ever thus, of course, but to damn them with faint praise, the old money at least had some vague notions of noblesse oblige. Today’s elites have only one moral compass: gimme, gimme,
Warren Wang Warren escaped Communist China a decade ago to pursue education in Australia. Now a finance businessman, he passionately defends libertarian freedoms. Vigorously opposing Covid lockdowns and mandates, Warren champions traditional Western liberties, hoping Australia avoids becoming the repressive nation he left behind. Chinese Premier Li Qiang has just
The circus that keeps on giving just keeps rolling on. I’m referring, of course, to the Lehrmann-Higgins saga. If you thought it was all over with the defamation trial which sensationally ended with a judge just totally reckoning that Bruce Lehrmann probably did rape Brittany Higgins. That despite, of
Metaphors of putting monkeys in charge of the banana plantation come to mind. Forget the inmates running the asylum: that happened decades ago. But the appointment of Matt Kean as the new head of the Climate Change Authority is a new low, even for that benighted taxpayer-funded sinkhole. Kean is
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. “We failed to keep these children safe. We failed to listen when they spoke out. We failed to act to ensure that it did not happen again.” Familiar words in the mouths of bishops apologising for sexual abuse by priests. But this
We could be forgiven for thinking that the reason the lefty elites think Western society is so irredeemably awful is that they judge the rest of us by the dire standard of their own toxic bubble. After all, “male feminist” has become a byword for abusers and creeps. The Greens
As Australia, like the rest of the West, continues to slide into the dark valley of unabashed anti-Semitism, for our elites, it’s very much one step forward, two big ol’ goose-steps backward. Yesterday, the government and opposition united in condemning anti-Semitism, and especially its representatives and enablers in parliament,
The tyranny of distance is a very real thing, when you live in a place like Tasmania. Just 250km of water makes a huge difference, especially to prices. Tasmanians are well used to paying a good 10c/litre more than our nearest Mainland cousins. On the flipside, housing used to
