They don’t call him “Airbus Albo” for nothing. Anthony Albanese’s literal first act as prime minister was to rush off to get sworn in before boarding closed for his first overseas flight as PM. The first of many, many, many more. In his first few months in office,
As I wrote recently, Australia is paying a dire price for Malcolm Fraser’s idiotically evil do-gooding. Despite repeated warnings from his advisers, Fraser was desperate to parade his so-called virtue by importing thousands of ‘refugees’ from the benighted backwaters of Lebanon. Decades later, antisemitism has exploded (not literally… yet;
As I’ve previously observed, New Zealanders are fast learning the truth of Paul Keating’s claim that “when you change the government, you change the country”. For once, the changes seem to be trending in the right direction. The new government is repealing Three Waters, promising to bin the
They say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. In the matter of the Israel-Gaza war, the Australian government is keeping all the worst company. When Xi Xinping is patting you on the shoulder, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself. Anthony
You know, once could be excused as bad luck. Twice as a mistake. Three, though…? Labor Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has so far: overseen the panicked release of over one hundred violent foreign criminals from detention, with at least six re-arrested within weeks for offences including violent sex attacks and offences
Labor’s anti-Semitism problem has become so obvious and so dangerous that even former Labor ministers are having to intervene to drag the party out of the Dark Valley. Since October 7, with violent anti-Semitism becoming bolder and bolder in some sections of Australian society — namely, the far-left and Islam
It’s a rusted-on nostrum of the powerful teachers’ unions that the only reason public schools are failing so miserably is money. Yet, year on year, taxpayers have shoveled more and more billions into public schools — and, year on year, academic results have remained in free-fall. No wonder teachers’ unions
We live in a time of near-universal deceit, but one of the biggest lies sold to us is that “women never lie about rape”. Does anyone with half a working brain cell really believe that? Now, before the autistic screeching starts, I’m not saying that women always lie about
No wonder Bruce Lehrmann was grinning from ear to ear outside court. His defamation case against Channel Ten and Lisa Wilkinson is on a roll. Lehrmann is sueing the broadcaster and the journalist for defamation, over The Project’s scoop interview with former Canberra staffer Brittany Higgins, who claims she
My, my — what a difference an election or two can make. Last year, it was Australia leading New Zealand on regional defence, with Jacinda Ardern and Nanaia Mahuta undercutting our countries’ traditional allies at every step. Now, it’s New Zealand stepping up to the plate, and Australia taking the
Weather forecasting is a famously inexact science, yet we’re supposed to believe that an agency which has repeatedly failed Australians when it comes to devastating weather events is nonetheless able to accurately predict the global climate one hundred years hence. To be fair, to an extent climate is easier
When is a tax not a tax? When the government doesn’t want to admit that it’s imposing yet another tax. So, they call it a “levy”, a “duty”, or even just a “price”. Because they know perfectly well that if they were thieving yet more of people’s
The parliamentary summer break surely couldn’t have come soon enough for Anthony Albanese. The last months of 2023 have been a constant bludgeon for the Australian PM. The discontent that simmered for most of the year over spiralling cost-of-living, driven largely by both “Net Zero” and a tsunami of
I’m not the world’s biggest Elon Musk fan: the fellow does some great things, some awful things, and a whole lot of very silly things. But, he was absolutely correct, when he said, What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while
Democracy is, above all else, the art of compromise. Short of the sort of hive-mind that the left can only dream of, citizens of a polity are going to have very different and often opposing needs, wants and opinions. You can’t, to paraphrase FDR, please all of the people,
Former Australian PM Tony Abbott has a new book coming out, and it’s certain to send the chattering classes into a screaming fit of triggernometry. With a working title of Peak Insanity, Abbott promises to tackle “The climate cult, the gender fluidity push, magic pudding economics, the cultural self-loathing
