If you needed no other argument against lowering the voting age — in fact, if you want an argument for raising the voting age — you need only look at Melbourne yesterday. It was like a scene out of Triumph of the Will, with keffiyehs in place of brown shirts. Hundreds of
With hindsight, the Hindmarsh Bridge affair should have been seen at the time for what it was: a test case of Enlightenment rationalism against primitive tribal superstition. Alas, even then, Australia’s media-political chattering classes were all gaga for a bit of oogabooga. So the primitive tribal superstitions won. For
As Thomas Sowell said, “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong”. It’s even worse when those same people are given license to keep on
Imagine standing up at the opening of a Holocaust museum to announce that you’re fast-tracking visas for fleeing Nazis. That’s effectively what Australian PM Anthony Albanese has just done. Almost 900 Palestinians granted temporary visas since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel will be subject to security
In news that should surprise absolutely no-one, another Labor climate policy is heading for disaster. Just like all the other ones: remember Julia Gillard’s “Cash for Clunkers”, not to mention the carbon tax? Or Kevin Rudd’s dodgy home insulation scheme, which caused house fires and the deaths of
For a generation who spent so much energy railing against everything old and wealthy, the Boomers in their senescence are notably addicted to money. No wonder George Carlin excoriated the Boomers as whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: “GIMME IT, IT’S MINE!” As Carlin said, Boomers were
They don’t call Anthony Albanese “Each-Way Albo” for nothing. The Australian PM has earned that moniker as much as he has the “Airbus Albo” tag, because if there’s one thing Albanese is addicted to almost as much as buggering off overseas, it’s sitting on the fence on
As the Australian left spirals deeper into the dark night of its own, drawn-out Kristallnacht, a government that’s been playing with matches is finally starting to smell the smoke. It should come as no surprise to anyone that a movement which kicked off by celebrating the worst massacre of
The left are just addicted to their idees fixee. One of which is the unquestionable boon of open borders. Not just immigration, but turbocharged mass immigration, more and ever more, from the third world. After all, they argue, wasn’t immigration beneficial in the past? So that must mean that
In 1971, Labor leader Gough Whitlam became the first Australian political leader to visit a communist nation, Maoist China. Never mind that the Cultural Revolution — which claimed up to 25 million lives and destroyed three-quarters of China’s cultural heritage — was still raging. Like most Western leftists, Whitlam cultivated a
In news that surprises absolutely no-one, Optus’ chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has quit. The spectacular resignation follows an even more spectacular outage recently, which cut off more than 10 million Australians from phone and internet services. The outage affected everything from banking to emergency communications. The Melbourne suburban train
Let’s not beat about the bush, here: ‘anti-Zionist’ is the most bullshit gambit since the old ‘I’m not racist, but…’ Just as you know the ‘but…’ is the opening for the most racist tripe imaginable, ‘anti-Zionist’ is just the mandatory rhetorical fig-leaf Jew-haters have had to deploy since
As I wrote recently, Australia’s legal elites seem determined to prove beyond all reasonable doubt what a colossal conga-line of asses they really are. First, there was the pro-Hamas “open letter” peddled by a cretinous collective of legal scholars, activists and lawyers. The High Court really upped the ante,
Taking over from Waleed Aly as the go-to poster-boy for Islamic terror apologism, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni has been getting a pretty sweet gig from the taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda collective national broadcaster, the ABC. But, just who is the left-media’s latest Islamic poster boy, and what
Text text “Kid Charlemagne” is my favourite song by Steely Dan, another marvelous band from the 1970s; second only to Mott The Hoople, of course. The song tells the story of a man with the rather grand sounding name of Augustus Owsley Stanley, a scion of a very prominent Kentucky
