GLOBAL warming activism ranks among the greatest gifts ever handed to centre-right political parties.
Not even the combination of Liberal Party founder RG Menzies and anti-communist combatant BA Santamaria managed to inflict such damage on left-leaning politicians.
So why did Turnbull join the Liberals, a traditionally centre-right political party? The answer, in short, is because the Australian Labor Party didn’t want a bar of him.
MENTAL health issues aside, woke Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg gave a climate speech to the UN assembly last month that re-energised the inmates. The rest of us writhed with embarrassment for her (and Sweden)…
WORDS have all but lost their meaning in this new era where enviro-socialists seek to earn a living by frightening school kids out of their minds. While being labelled a “racist” these days is akin to a compliment, it’s the official use…
ONE of the enduring qualities of centre-right conservatism is that its values don’t change on a whim – and you’re not required to tie yourself in knots to explain them. A combination of common decency and common sense is pretty much…
BEFORE his retirement in 2012, Greens Party leader Bob Brown was among the most dangerous orators in Australian politics. He was a master at making the craziest, sometimes most perilous ideas appear normal. He wove his extreme views in words that were…
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ANNOUNCER: Donald J Trump is now President of the United States. GIRL: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ANNOUNCER: What a great honour to be able to introduce for the first time ever, anywhere the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald… GIRL: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!…
ALTHOUGH the Left has been trounced in the culture wars, its retreat comes with a whole lot of teeth gnashing as they are relegated to history’s dumpster. Wouldn’t we be so much happier if they skipped their death throes and just faded…
HAVE you noticed that almost everything these days is blamed on global warming? From droughts to floods, fires and hail storms, cyclones, snowfall, heatwaves and cold snaps. Even perpetually-at-risk coral is now a climate victim – though it just never, ever seems…
ONE of the first things you notice on a visit to central Europe these days is the appalling state of many of its public spaces. Memorial parks, kids’ play areas and median strips are overgrown to the point of being unusable. To…
