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Will Victoria’s Luck Run Out This Summer?

Will Victoria’s Luck Run Out This Summer?

I happened to live through the Victorian Gas Crisis of 1998. When a catastrophic explosion shut down the state’s natural gas processing plant, the state went without gas supplies for 20 days. Victoria at the time heavily relied on natural gas for cooking and heating, especially in the commercial

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The New York Times is Proud of Telling their Lie Really Well

The New York Times is Proud of Telling their Lie Really Well

The Mueller Report dashed Democrat hopes of pinning Russian interference in the 2016 elections on Trump. That report, in fact, incriminated the Clintons and the Democrat’s but that’s a whole other story. The MSM, the lackies of the left, were relentless in the Trump-Russia collusion story for

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Oxygen Thieves Fuel Climate Hysteria

Oxygen Thieves Fuel Climate Hysteria

Pondering the tendency of elites to the most extreme manifestations of gibbering climate hysteria, Australian columnist the Mocker has a theory: concentrating so many oxygen thieves in one room cripples their already diminished cognitive abilities. Consequently, people at those forums become irrational, paranoid and prone to hysteria […] It is a

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Politically Homeless
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Politically Homeless

One of the blogs I follow is Up All Night by blogger and journalist Sam White. Yesterday he published an interesting piece about being politically homeless which I think is something that many of us can relate to. It used to be so easy before MMP as it was National

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Appeal George Pell is escorted from the Victorian Supreme Court. Picture: AAP

Pell Appeal Fails, Culture War Rages On

The appeal by Cardinal George Pell against his child sex abuse conviction was yesterday rejected by Victoria’s Court of Appeal, a decision that has been met with surprise from legal experts and joy from advocates. The legal team for the Vatican’s most senior cleric convicted to date has

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Every Action Has An Equal and Opposite Reaction

Every Action Has An Equal and Opposite Reaction

The Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto had no innate power. If everyone had been allowed to read it and to intellectually tear it apart in a robust marketplace of ideas it would have been reduced to powder. New Zealand’s Chief Censor, however, had other ideas and so did PM Jacinda

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Why the Government Secretly Wants Fuel to Go Up 50c a Litre
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Why the Government Secretly Wants Fuel to Go Up 50c a Litre

National party Press Release: Julie Anne Genter will have her fingers crossed that fuel prices keep ballooning, otherwise, her car tax won’t provide all the economic benefits she claims it will. The Associate Transport Minister has been shopping her car tax policy to the public based on misinformation about

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The Truth About Dirty Politics
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The Truth About Dirty Politics

If anyone is qualified to write about ‘Dirty Politics’ it should be me as according to Mainstream media and all the left-wing blogs I am married to the king of ‘Dirty Politics’. I married into a political family and it has been a fascinating journey where I have learned

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Election Policy Watchdog or Attack Dog?
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Election Policy Watchdog or Attack Dog?

The government is proposing a parliamentary watchdog to provide costing information on the proposals of political parties in their election campaigns. National is not keen on this idea, claiming that the government will ‘screw the scrum’ on the Opposition, as they can’t even manage to get a Treasury ‘secondee’

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National MP Judith Collins

Judith Collins Took a Leaf out of Donald Trump’s Political Playbook

a stock of usual tactics or methods straight from his opponent’s political playbook. hmerriam-webster.com In this instance, Judith Collins is wise to avoid anything remotely connected to her opposition’s playbook, simply because their tactics don’t work for them and won’t help her either. Collins,

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Who Does the Media Most Want to Silence?

Who Does the Media Most Want to Silence?

In the mainstream media, women on the left are almost always portrayed as paragons of compassion and virtue. But when it comes to conservative women, it’s a different story. Why is this?  Heather Higgins, chairman of Independent Women’s Forum and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice, explains the

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