by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN politicians are increasingly demanding that voters forget about pandemic lockdowns (and Islamic terror). The first and only rule of the post-pandemic political classes is to never, ever mention the failure of their COVID response. “Just shut up!” …
by PAUL COLLITS – OF SEVERAL things that struck me about Rebecca Weisser’s memorable piece on the “leper vote” of unvaccinated deplorables and other sundry COVID dissidents, one line in particular stood out. “Even federal Health Minister Greg Hunt quietly dropped the…
THE recent announcement by Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt that he is retiring at the forthcoming election is noteworthy. His explanation for his exit from politics was the usual cover-all – “to spend more time with family”. This might be true, but…
THIRTY-eight thousand citizens still can’t come home. But in 2020-21, the government let in 60,000 immigrants (with those from China leading). The reason Australians can’t come home is that, unlike most comparable countries, the airlines can’t function normally because of the draconian…
A FAILURE by politicians to quickly dismantle the radical Left’s social re-engineering agenda has resulted in “quiet” Australian families suffering relentless attacks from obsessed activists. Well-intentioned businesses, community associations and sporting organisers have stood alone while being shamed and set-upon by hardened political militants pushing an aggressive identity agenda.
THERE has never been a time when Acton’s and Madison’s warnings about the abuse of power and the danger of dictatorship have been more relevant to the world’s oldest continuing democracies, especially Australia and America. When the Wuhan virus struck, Australia’s leaders ignored world’s best practice, guided instead by notoriously failed modelling as well as the panic ignited by that propaganda arm of the Democrats, America’s mainstream media.
IT’S time to listen to blind Freddie. When COVID first struck it was both common sense and politically astute for governments to design the communication response on the advice of the best medical minds in the country.
Now as the second wave rolls up the beach it is neither common sense nor politically astute to use doctors as a handy excuse for clumsy messaging. The COVID-19 communications now need to be sophisticated, well-rounded and comprehensive.
