QUEENSLAND premier Annastacia Palaszczuk played the first notes from the State sovereignty provisions of the Constitution as a rousing electoral anthem, after renaming them “Up Yours Australia, Queensland is Closing Its Borders”.
I RECENTLY read a useful poster for employees of Australia’s Workplace Mental Health Institute which describes 15 signs that you may be in an abusive relationship.
AXING frivolous school subjects such as puppetry and wearable art doesn’t go far enough according to NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham. With more than 20 per cent of NSW’s school electives to be phased out from 2022, the former federal Labor leader is demanding gender fluidity classes also be scrapped.
THE adoption of an abortion law so extreme it sanctions the killing of any innocent who dares survive has been greeted by a standing ovation in the Senate. That was the New York State Senate, not Australia’s. But a standing ovation greeted the introduction (by a man) of a hitherto secret abortion bill rammed through the NSW Parliament in 2019.
STATE politicians have continued their hysterical response to Coronavirus – instead of easing their approach as the germ became better understood. Rather than “flatten the curve” and “protect the vulnerable”, as was their initial intent, elected officials have instead acquiesced as public sector bureaucrats flattened the economy and protected their own careers.
WHY do politicians so often make decisions based not on judgement but on computer modelling? This is notwithstanding the telling observation attributed to the great Anglo-American statistician, Professor George EP Box, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” It’s like all those pundits and commentators who were sure that based on faulty polls, Bill Shorten would win the last Federal election.
A NSW MP who last year threatened to topple the Berejiklian government over its support for late term abortions has again raised concerns over its treatment of unborn children. In a Christmas Eve email, Member for Mulgoa Tanya Davies said the NSW government hadn’t honoured its commitment to recognise unborn babies who had died as a result of crime.
VICTORIA Labor Premier Daniel Andrews, who this year inflicted more damage on Australia than arguably any politician in history, has capped off 2020 by cancelling Australia Day. Mr Andrews announced on Saturday that 2021 Australia Day celebrations in Melbourne were to be cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.
WATERED down laws dealing with drug use – along with the threat of a new carbon tax – lie in store for NSW citizens if senior members of its Coalition government have their way.With NSW debt skyrocketing and its AAA credit rating downgraded this week, the Berejiklian government appears side tracked with implementing Greens Party policy.
GOVERNMENT funding has been withheld from a Christian organisation because its views on marriage are deemed non-inclusive. The grant application from Victory Life Church to assist purchase a refrigerated truck to distribute food to Perth’s homeless was rejected due the views of its founder, tennis great Margaret Court.
