"Restoring law and order"
Summarised by Centrist
Police Minister Mark Mitchell announced the addition of the TwoEight Brotherhood and the Bloods to the Gangs Act list, bringing the total to 37. Public display of their insignia will be banned from February 3, 2025, with harsher penalties for repeat offenders. Mitchell emphasised the government’s commitment to “restoring law and order” and equipping police to disrupt gang activity and enhance public safety.
“A comprehensive and consistent view of the flood risks across the country.”
“Serious and repeated failures...”
“Some children as young as 12 were commenced on puberty blockers, with others on testosterone, without adequate documentation of assessments or monitoring.
“The next move looks more likely to be up than down.”
The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.
This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep their highly processed junk food eligible for food stamps.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.
