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Won’t somebody please think of the public servants? It’s not easy, you know, pulling in a paltry hundred grand a year, working flexi time, and gorging yourself stupid in Lambton Quay. (Just like Canberra and Hobart, it’s conspicuous just how many fancy cafes and bars tend to
Jared Mondschein Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Donald Trump’s political obituary has been written many times. His dominant performance in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries marks one more instance of him outlasting those who counted him out. While Trump has yet to officially clinch the
“De-colonisation” is one of the latest buzz-words to take the place of thought in the empty heads of the left. Resentful Bungas who owe pretty much everything they have to colonisation have suddenly decided that biting the hand that gave them — at last count, modern medicine, science, an end to
Mary Hackshaw On the 22nd of February I had a pleasant surprise. A week and a half after widespread blackouts hit Victoria following a summer storm, cutting off power to 530,000 homes and businesses, we had a 38-degree day. Perfect conditions for the grid to collapse with the strain
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com It is now 100 days since Christopher Luxon’s new Government was formed. Significant progress has been made in fulfilling Coalition pledges to wind back co-governance and race-based privilege. The Three Waters legislation, introduced by Labour to give iwi leaders control of freshwater, has been
I’ve been posting on X (formerly Twitter) about Professor Joanna Kidman, a director of the Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, which is part of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She was appointed by Jacinda Ardern to the role. David Farrar also
Haidar Khezri Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, University of Central Florida Since the 2022 death of Jîna Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman held in police custody for wearing her hijab inappropriately, Iranian demonstrators have protested against the repressive regime and the surge of executions of ethnic and religious political
Even by the standards of the Canberra Bubble, this one’s a jaw-dropper: disgraced former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been appointed as a lecturer at Canberra University. Even more astonishing, he’s teaching a unit on the law of evidence. Which makes about as much sense
Tim Graham Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. newsbusters.org Scott Pelley is most notorious in recent years as
For the past eight years, the chattering classes have constantly horked that this time they’ve finally got the Bad Orange Man. Even before Donald Trump was sworn in, they were screeching “Impeach!”, for what exactly, didn’t matter. Then it was a gaggle of preening Hollywood nitwits importuning the
Cruz Marquis Cruz Marquis is a former US Marine, a current economics student, and the administrator of TheConservativeCritique.com. fee.org Since the protests against the usurping military junta turned deadly three years ago, the brutal ethnic civil war in Myanmar has raged. In order to staunch the mounting manpower
My old mother always used to say, “A guilty conscience needs no accusing”. The wise saying, which possibly goes back all the way to Socrates, means that the guilty know they are guilty and a nagging conscience eventually shows itself. Moving on to another topic entirely, ever since the ASIO
Much has been written on the subject of Newshub joining Today FM in the media graveyard. A suitable epitaph might be something along the lines of… In memory of an organisation renowned for leftist spin ultimately leading to its death. Here lie journos who decided their opinion was the story
Richard Shaw Professor of Politics, Massey University Although the notion of a government’s “first 100 days” in office is constitutionally meaningless, it has become part of the modern political lexicon. Ever since US president Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase to usher in an era of unparalleled congressional activity
The Labour-Greens Government wasted precious time and money on Covid when the country needed relief from the high cost of living, poorly maintained roads, hospital staffing shortages, high truancy rates, the explosion in youth crime and rising welfare dependency. The politicians in government today cannot be trusted. Some were in
