Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. On April 7, 2020 Cardinal George Pell walked out of Barwon Prison, in Victoria, a free man. Australia’s High Court, in a unanimous 7-0 decision, had quashed his conviction for sexually abusing two
Darroch Ball Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust There have been comments from the Minister of Justice, and repeated in the media, about the recent youth crime wave being a so called ‘spike’. What they want is to create a message that it is ‘short term’, ‘fixable’, and ‘unexpected’. All of which
As I wrote recently, political correctness is a Muslim terrorist’s greatest ally. Political correctness has led to the ridiculous demonisation of so-called “racial profiling”. The idea that police can profile criminal behaviour with expert precision is mostly a television fiction — the reality is a little more complicated, but it’
Here’s a not-so-difficult question: if you were a copper, would you risk going into one of the most notoriously violent places in Australia without a gun? We’re talking about a place where nearly the entire town was recently evacuated, due to roving bands of men armed with axes
Is it time to retire the jokes and vilification of priests, yet? Is it time to start spitting on teachers, instead? Vandalising schools? After all, everything the churches were guilty of – harbouring child abusers, and covering up for, if not enabling them – and have been so harshly and rightly punished
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
As we all know, Saint George Floyd was brutally murdered by a policeman’s knee. The fact that he had imbibed three times the fatal dose of Fentanyl had nothing to do with it. Just like the meth-head who tried to rob a Bunnings store in Melbourne, in 2016. Anthony
Information Opinion A couple of days ago the Independent Police Complaints Authority released a report that criticised Police for taking a large number of photographs “with no clear and lawful purpose”. There is also a claim of racial bias, as 53 per cent of those photographed were Maori. The response
The government has now announced its answer to the alarming and growing ram-raid statistics. Cuddles and hugs. “Children under 14 years old caught doing ram raids will be given intensive support to steer them away from crime, and towards study and work.” “The move is part of a $53 million
A shirtless guy covered in Mongrel Mob tattoos, having sex with an airline seat, I mean, who could ever say that he wasn’t just blending in and acting normal? What a cunning disguise, no wonder the cops didn’t notice him. What’s the bet that the police arrested
Some months back, I reported on the case of John Millwood, a Tasmanian (former) millionaire and convicted paedophile. “Former” millionaire because, on the very day his victim lodged a civil claim for damages, Millwood instructed his lawyers to begin divesting his estimated $8m fortune. So, now Millwood’s family and
Is it any wonder that horrors like Rotherham and Telford were allowed to happen? As Nigel Farage rebuked a smirking opposition panel at the 2016 Munk Debate, a century of women’s emancipation in the West had ended up with “migrant” activists telling European women not to go out alone
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson ACT has today renewed our calls for a review of who is eligible for ankle bracelets after an 18-year-old received nine months home detention for the rapes of four teenagers. As part of our Real Change: Law and Order paper released last month, ACT announced
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. In response to the smoke and mirrors ‘Youth Crime Announcement’ from the government, the Act Party has said that these youths need to be on electronic monitoring. Firstly there is nothing new about what Labour have announced – it just ‘expands’ the same old stuff they
Imagine writing an entire article on the Holocaust without mentioning Jews. Or the Cultural Revolution without mentioning Mao or China. Yet, somehow, the taxpayer-funded journalistic geniuses at the ABC manage to write entire articles about a spike in forced child marriages in Australia without once mentioning the dreaded “M-word”. Kubra*
