THINGS have indeed fallen apart for the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate. We are slouching, disoriented, disgruntled, unmoored and clueless about where next to place our votes. The centre, or “club sensible” as the late and much missed Christopher Pearson termed it, has not held.
AUSTRALIAN Education Minister Alan Tudge has given universities until the end of the year to enforce a freedom of speech code, threatening to use legislation if they refuse or cannot implement it. “You cannot pursue truth without freedom of expression. You cannot create knowledge without freedom of academic inquiry,” Mr Tudge said in a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday.
FORMER deputy Liberal leader Neil Brown has walked away from the Party, saying the government and its cheer squad “stand for nothing”. Mr Brown, who was elected deputy federal leader under John Howard in the 1980s, has cited last month’s “socialist” budget along with reverse racism as his tipping point.
WITH a handful of exceptions, today’s politicians seem determined to ensure that Australia never achieves its potential but instead declines into a backward, poorly educated nation, falling increasingly behind our neighbours to the north. This is to dishonour those who built this nation and especially, those who fought and died for her.
FEWER Australians wanted to buy products made in China, preferring locally made goods, according to new figures. The number of Australians more likely to buy products made in China fell to 21 per cent, down 9 percentage points, according to market research company Roy Morgan.
IT WAS said, not that many moons ago, that the Liberal Party had, after decades of sectarian rivalry and anti-Catholicism, changed its tune and had become the Party of Catholics. A real Catholic – not a fake one like Tony Abbott’s predecessor and successor – made it to the leadership of the Party in 2009.
WHEN the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the much-maligned Neville Chamberlain would not have thought of calling on both sides to lay down their arms, unlike the recent call from the US Secretary of State and the Australian Foreign Minister on both Israel and the Hamas terrorists concerning the Iranian surrogate’s unprovoked rocket attacks on Israel.
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.
