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. …
THE Northern Territory often produces a vague sense of unease due to its climate, desert landscape, remoteness and isolation. You wouldn’t venture far off the main highways. The Territory is also a focal point for the culture wars in view of its…
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is under pressure from hostile bureaucrats to maintain harsh COVID restrictions even after benchmarks have been met. The premier had indicated that repressive restrictions on all NSW residents would be lifted by December 15, 2021, or when vaccination…
by PAUL COLLITS – AT THE time of writing, around 70 per cent of Australians were fully vaccinated against COVID. Put another way, the proportion of Australians being relentlessly insulted, bullied, gaslit, demonised, isolated and threatened is approaching one third. By no…
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…
AFTER the sad demise of the previous NSW premier, I thought, well, one eastern State’s unspellable spinster-premier is gone, one to go. The then State of Origin contest over who could be the more ghastly premier came to an end after ICAC’s…
A VICTORIAN State MP has said that the rights and freedoms of Australians have been incrementally chipped away during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the unprecedented newly proposed pandemic laws giving politicians “unfettered power” over people’s lives. The Liberal Party member for Forest…
LET me get this straight. Mayors in regional NSW are afraid of fully vaccinated Sydneysiders visiting their low-vaccinated regions. The double jabbed are the lucky folks who now get to travel (legally) again out of Sydney, as of November 1, 2021. The…
WITH thanks to the late David Bowie and the polymath Brian Eno, we are reminded of what it means to be called to heroic virtue, the traditional measure of sainthood. I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though…
FORGIVE the absence of party poppers, streamers and balloons. NSW’s so-called “freedom day” is a croc and an insult. It is nothing short of Orwellian newspeak. It is a lie, repeatedly told and somehow believed, celebrated, gloated over. There are alternate names…
