AUSTRALIAN soldiers have been ordered not to engage in cross-gender dress-ups as new Defence Minister Peter Dutton prepares the armed forces for possible conflict. After years of governments pandering to a military obsessed with gender fluidity and political correctness, Mr Dutton has finally told the armed services to “get back to business”.
THE Coalition can be grateful to would-be wrecker Malcolm Turnbull for a handsome Hunter by-election win in the given circumstance. According to those on the ground, many voters who professed loathing for him determined to stick with the NSW government despite all its current travails.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison and angry trade unions have simultaneously moved to expose Anthony Albanese’s climate double-talk, as a senior MP threatens to quit the green-obsessed ALP. While “climate emergency” MPs pretended Saturday’s by-election thumping had nothing to do with climate politics, their union paymasters are saying otherwise – and PM Morrison is capitalising on the turmoil.
MEN in the Mirror, Sky News Australia’s excellent documentary by Chris Kenny on the awful similarities between those two prime ministerial disasters, Rudd and Turnbull, should be followed by one on the media’s role supporting their ascension and, in particular, the commentariat’s role in downing John Howard and Tony Abbott.
SHADOW Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s sustained defence of China is “worse than appeasement”, according to legal academic and political historian Prof David Flint. The long-serving Australian Labor senator has repeatedly sided with Team China, even as it unleashed havoc on Australian farmers, fishers, miners and businesses.
WOMEN are responsible for disproportionately fewer females entering politics, according to high profile political figures Amanda Stoker and Jacinta Price. They claim they owe their success in the Liberal Party largely to the support and guidance of “great” men.
STATE education ministers are pushing back against a new national curriculum that all but demonises Western culture and its freedoms. NSW and South Australian education ministers have joined with their federal counterpart Mr Alan Tudge to oppose the proposed curriculum, calling it “unimpressive” and “unscientific”.
THE Chinese regime’s mouthpiece, Global Times, has criticised Australia’s increased national security spending, accusing Canberra of “further escalating regional confrontation”. The newspaper’s report on Wednesday titled “Canberra’s Defence Spending Means More Economic Carnage,” also accused Australia of “relentless and unreasonable provocations” and warned of retaliation.
THE drums of war are indeed beating. And it may well be that Australia will again be sending her warriors overseas. These are “brutal truths”, notwithstanding Canberra’s denigration of our soldiers’ ancient “warrior culture”. After all, is it still not the aim of the army to kill the enemy, and to accept for themselves, as Pericles said “joyfully”, the risk of death?
CLIMATE alarmism is nothing more than an “imagined” threat created by far Left activists to wrestle control of Australia’s political and economic direction. By using carefully crafted talking points, GetUp has partnered with Liberal, Labor and Greens renewables pedlars to frighten otherwise sensible Australians with a fictional doomsday scenario.
