I’ve said it before, and sadly I have to say it again: when do we start spitting on teachers? After all, the moral standing of priests has been indelibly besmirched by the shocking revelations that, not only were a minority of priests horrifically active paedophiles but that the entire
Boy, there’s all sorts of stuff going on in Australia, right now. If only we were allowed to know about it. First, there were the charges against She Who Cannot Be Named of They Who Must Remain Secret, for kidnapping and torturing a man for Reasons We Cannot Discuss.
It’s only taken him, what? Five years to figure it out. ASIO chief Mike Burgess has finally clued in to the literally bleeding obvious: Islamic extremism is our greatest terrorist threat. Next on Magic Mike’s to-do list: figuring out that, holy shit, did you guys know that water
C. S. Lewis had a number of things to say about “humanitarian” theories of crime and punishment, as they stood in his day. His remarks stand the test of time admirably. After all, who couldn’t read the opening words of The Silver Chair, with its description of “modern” school,
Well, I’ll give this to Anthony Albanese: he’s got more guts than I’d have credited him for. As I speculated recently, it would be telling to see if the PM personally campaigned for the critical Dunkley by-election this week. After all, it’s fast getting to the
There are political leaders who make their valedictory addresses a fitting sign-off for greatness. Eisenhower’s prophetic warning of a “scientific-technological elite”, for instance. Others make an apparent valedictory address as the keystone of a mere interregnum in a long and storied career, such as John Howard’s speech relinquishing
The Albanese government is fast losing the Australian public on nearly every issue. Notably, they’re proving yet again that while “climate action” might be a big deal for the chattering classes, it’s consistent electoral poison. “Climate action” has never won an election, but it has cost them. Similarly,
Seeing as he likes to prate about his love of Aussie bands, I’ll let the Cruel Sea do the talking to Anthony Albanese: The honeymoon is over, baby, it’s never gonna be that way again. Whatever goodwill the PM might have been able to rely on after the
Sian Troath Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury There is little doubt the National-led coalition is showing greater interest in the AUKUS security agreement, with Australian officials due to visit New Zealand later this year to brief the government. So far, much of the discussion and
As I wrote recently, California, in the midst of a periodic water crisis, is busily demolishing dams. Why? Because of the magic, oops, ‘spiritually important’ fish, according to the mythology of local Indian tribes. Of course, as one reader pointed out, there are sound environmental reasons for at least building
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid
Richard Kelly Richard Kelly is a retired business analyst, married with three adult children, one dog, devastated by the way his home city of Melbourne was laid waste. Convinced justice will be served, one day. brownstone.org For reasons I can’t explain, I said ‘Yes’ when asked to join
Proving the adage about stopped clocks, it was Noam Chomsky who said, “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all”. I don’t like Chomsky, but I believe in his right to say even the horrendous things
The rise to power of the worst dictators of modern history was too often abetted by the weakness or connivance of police forces. In Italy, the weakness of its police forces meant that they were easily browbeaten by the Fascists (where they didn’t willfully co-operate). Similarly, in Weimar Germany,
If solar panels were ever going to replace fossil fuels, they would have done so long ago. After all, they’re not exactly an emerging technology. Solar panels have been around for over half a century, which is plenty of time for the tech to mature and become cheap. Yet,
As I wondered some time back, regarding the then-latest report from Net Zero Australia: do these clowns even read their own reports? Because, even on their own reckoning, the costs (financial and environmental) of the “Net Zero” mania are mind-boggling. By their own admission, the cost of doing nothing to
