I USED to think that the Murdoch press supported the vaccines rollout because it wanted to support the Morrison government. Now I am convinced that I got that one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees wrong. My new working hypothesis is that the nonagenarian Murdoch supports Morrison because…
AUSTRALIANS would once proudly boast theirs was a nation under the rule of law. Sadly, we now live under the rule of the law-breakers. Imprisoned, not allowed to leave the country, invited to rat on neighbours, subject to arbitrary punishment, watched from…
THERE are two supreme ironies in play in the COVID Commonwealth of Australia, where most of the population is housebound as lockdown mania creeps from cities to back blocks as (typically) a single, wayward spreader visits a region. We also have a…
IT IS with head-shaking disbelief that NSW awakes each new day to find yet more of our current lives and futures taken away from us by venal, midwit politicians. Such activity is, of course, not confined to the Premier State. NSW is…
BIG Epidemiology and Big Higher Education have had a very good COVID. The virus has delivered academics the things they crave most in life – money and fame. The media circus, the COVID Theatre, the breathless press conferences, the jumped-up politicians, the…
Creating enemies that either do not exist at all or whose characteristics and attributed crimes are wildly exaggerated at best, or made up at worst, is the oldest trick in the political science 101 manual. It has been on display all around us during the COVID fiasco.
JOHN McEwen was leader of the then Country Party and Deputy Prime Minister in December 1967 when the Prime Minister, Harold Holt, unwisely went for a dip at Cheviot Beach outside Melbourne and didn’t come back. Within hours of Holt’s disappearance, various…
AUSTRALIA was some years ago sold out by those whom the people trusted, the politicians and the elites, to Beijing’s genocidal thugs. No longer, as Shakespeare might have said, “this other Eden, demi-paradise”, a land of gradually advancing prosperity, based on liberty,…
THE Sundance Kid once famously complained to his partner Butch Cassidy about the mysterious posse of huntsmen tracking the outlaws across the plains on horseback, “Who are those guys? They’re very good, Butch”. Well, the ruling class, the aristocracy of CovidMania, is…
THE world – yes, I do mean the world – reacted with something approaching horror, or, if not, with at least surprise approaching unease, at the weekend news that YouTube is censoring Sky News for its thought crimes in relation to lockdowns. …
