AFTER a nail-biting wait of 20 days, Sarah Caisip finally received approval from the Queensland government to enter Queensland so she could farewell her dying dad. Sarah’s dad had already passed away, the Queensland government having overlooked the fact that death does not recognise bureaucratic timeframes.
VICTORIA Premier Dan has built the foundations for dictatorship and destroyed the economy in one fell swoop. As Victoria accounts for 20 per cent of our economy, the negative repercussions of this continued shut down will reverberate across the whole of Australia, not only Victoria.
OUR founding fathers when debating the union of the separate colonies on the great southern continent into one country, had one major concern.
That concern dominated discussions and constitutional debates like no other. The concern was this: how to ensure that the newly formed central government did not overwhelm the autonomy of the States to govern citizens within their own borders.
IN A previous post, I took the NSW Government to task for playing silly buggers when it instituted a criminal enquiry into the Ruby Princess debacle. The announcement of a general enquiry put my concerns to rest, but only temporarily. It is extremely disappointing that they are still at it, muddying the waters to shield the decision-makers.
SOMBREROS are the new way to standardise apartedness, assist the visually impaired with social distancing and revive the devastated millinery industry.Lining up outside our local pie shop the other day, I couldn’t help noticing the alarming variations in people’s assessments of what constitutes 1.5m.
ON MARCH 19 this year the operators of the Ruby Princess were given the go ahead to discharge 2700 passengers without health checks for COVID-19, in circumstances where there should have been strict scrutiny.
WE’VE been confined to our homes, banned from beaches and parks, restaurants, cafes, theatres, clubs and hotels have been closed. A harmless solitary kebab eater has been fined $1000. By and large our economy and the simplest pleasures of life, have been put into hibernation.
ON LAST Sunday’s 60 Minutes program, reporter Tara Brown aggressively questioned Prime Minister Scott Morrison on why Victoria was closing down schools, whilst the PM advocated that they be kept open.
To start with, it was a dumb question: the head of the Federal government of Australia cannot, nor should he be asked to, answer for the motives of the State of Victoria.
WITH the whole world consumed with climate change, let’s restore a bit of sanity, ditch the restraints of seriosity and take a light-hearted romp through history.
The first recorded climatic calamity is the great flood in Noah’s time, whenever that may or may not have been.
NOT since Bill Leak’s cartoon and the row over section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, has there been such a furore over freedom of speech or should I say the alleged abuse of freedom of speech.
Israel Folau, a great sportsman but naïve in politics, invited a penalty kick from the PC brigade, by calling for homosexuals to repent so as to avoid the torments of Hell.
