While New Zealand seems certain to join a conga-line of third-world banana republics happy to dance for China’s BRI handouts, the Australian government is moving to slash the strings that are firmly tied to Beijing’s seeming largesse. First in the Morrison government’s sights are clueless, socialist state
Tasmania is famous for producing some of the world’s best seafood, wine and lamb. Not that Tasmanians ever get much chance of enjoying the bounty of their own state: even if we’re prepared to pay through the nose for certain local produce, we end up getting the leavings
Sebastian Rushworth M.D. Health and medical information grounded in science sebastianrushworth.com The Swedish response to the covid pandemic has become one of the most talked about topics of the last six months, and there’s a lot of misinformation floating around. Since that’s the case, and since
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America Mr. President, Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you
Somewhere in Hell, Hitler must be laughing. The EU has achieved what the Third Reich couldn’t: the virtual elimination of the Jews of Europe. Pre-War, there were about 9.5 million Jews in Europe. After the Nazis, there were about 3.5 million left. Today, that population has been
In J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books, almost all the characters avoid saying the name of the series’ arch-villain, Voldemort. No matter whether they’re good or evil, all but a couple of characters refuse to name him out of fear. Voldemort’s own followers call him “the Dark
Olivia Enos Emilie Kao papundits.wordpress.com Olivia Enos contributes posts at The Daily Signal, and she is an Asian Studies Center senior policy analyst within The Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Emilie Kao is director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing at all. He didn’t get any peace deals across the line and his foreign policy was missing in action yet for some reason he was nominated and won. Jacinda Ardern was supposedly nominated too. Our lickspittle media declared her
Ryan McMaken mises.org Back in August, European politicians were threatening lockdowns and calling for “vigilance.” But given the economic devastation wrought by full, nationwide lockdowns, politicians have become fearful of going down that road again. For example, in the Czech Republic, where the seven-day average for reported covid deaths
Eliora Martyn Iles from the ACL (Australian Christian Lobby the advocacy organisation, not the ACL knee joint that can be injured in rugby) reports that they have been petitioning Government to let people go to church during the COVID 19 pandemic. The sentiment of faith groups is clear, from a
Launceston has long grown accustomed to empty shopfronts in its CBD, a trend only exacerbated by the Wuhan plague. So, when a new shopfront opens it naturally piques local interest. The more so when the shop sports entirely Chinese-language livery, is stocked with row upon row of baby formula – and
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As Mark Steyn angrily wrote, “Je Suis Charlie” is a lie. Only Charlie was Charlie. No-one else had the guts to stand up to murderously intolerant Islam, and that’s why so many of Charlie Hebdo’s staff paid the ultimate price. It was all-too-telling that, even as they were
Ryan McMaken mises.org Last week, Dr. David Nabarro from the World Health Organization admitted that lockdowns have been devastating for much of the world, noting that “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer.” Nabarro went
