SOCIAL justice advocates have transitioned into ruthless tyrants and oppressors ~ more interested in emotions than facts, according to a leading Australian academic. Dean of Law at Melbourne’s Swinburne University Mirko Bagaric has described woke culture as a threat to western society. …
WHEN he was minister for health, Tony Abbott drew up a plan to deal with future pandemics which attracted international praise. Sadly, the Abbott plan is gathering dust somewhere in Canberra. Where to next? The answer is to develop with widespread public…
FIRST, they came for the anti-vaxxers… The COVID maniacs seem to be especially triggered by comparisons between the current totalitarianism and that practiced in central Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. And the suggestion that the unvaccinated are discriminated against in similar…
FINANCIAL services giant KPMG is opening for business on Australia Day, saying staff can take another leave day if they choose. Meanwhile, competitors PwC and Deloitte have similar floating public holiday policies, however, have not been actively signalling the replacement of Australia’s…
AUSTRALIA’s ageing professors might be sans frontiers (without borders), in terms of the infinite subjects over which they range and on which they claim expertise, and the disparate forms of media they now embrace. But they are also, seemingly, without arguments and…
THERE are two kinds of vaccine virtue signalling. The obvious one is everywhere to be seen in the current vaccine dictatorships across the globe. The abuse meted out to the vaccine “refuseniks” has been relentless. The insults (stupid, selfish, granny-killer). The threats. …
AT LEAST some of the vitriol aimed at the vaccination refuseniks relates to the so-called free rider problem. The populist tone of much of the push for mass vaccinations to thwart COVID has the ring of Aussie jingoism. We are a nation…
IN HIS effort to rename Ben Boyd National Park, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been accused of resorting to “shoddy” history. The NSW Liberal’s Left faction co-leader has described 1800s entrepreneur Ben Boyd as a “slave trader” and vowed to work with…
JUST as the ancients stood in awe of the then Seven Wonders of the World, so one can but marvel at the mindset of the Left when seeking to re-introduce death duties. Over time, these duties cost public revenue much more than…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is, seemingly, no rational argument that can penetrate the insanity bubble in which everyone working in Macquarie Street is so clearly cocooned. Just when you thought that the political management of what, by world standards, is a…
