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ABC failed fact check on Dick Smith: ‘Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?’

Terrence O’Brien Flat White Getty Images Terrence O’Brien 3 April 2024 1:00 AM On March 18, 2024, Dick Smith argued that there is a necessary role for nuclear in Australia’s energy mix (for which he has been a longstanding champion). Media reports suggest the ABC has made a humiliating back down in apologising to Dick Smith forContinue reading “ABC failed fact check on Dick Smith: ‘Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?’”

Temptations of a digital world

Kevin Donnelly Flat White Getty Images Kevin Donnelly 3 April 2024 1:43 AM In his recent book, The Anxious Generation, the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns about the debilitating and destructive impact of mobile phones and the virtual world on children and adolescents. As I warned in 2014, the digital world, while incredibly tempting and widely endorsed,Continue reading “Temptations of a digital world”

When government wedges itself between the church and its people

Jason Strecker Getty Images Jason Strecker 4 April 2024 3:00 AM In one of the most significant rulings in generations, the ABC reported in February that, ‘Justice Martin found the Police Commissioner failed to comply with this section of the Act [Human Rights] … based on this, declared that the QPS directions were unlawful.’ EssentiallyContinue reading “When government wedges itself between the church and its people”

A government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, and for the bureaucrats

John Andriano Flat Whitr Getty Images John Andriano 15 April 2024 8:54 PM When describing democracy, former American President Abraham Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address in 1863, said it was a ‘government of the people, by the people and for the people’. In Australia, as in many other Western countries, government has been overrunContinue reading “A government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, and for the bureaucrats”

The Albanese government is our biggest national security threat

Michael de Percy Flat White Getty Images Michael de Percy 16 April 2024 8:58 PM The bold display of Iranian military drones over the holy city of Jerusalem symbolises the weakness of the Albanese government. Following Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s weak stance on terrorism, she is complicit in the diplomatic climate that emboldened a direct attackContinue reading “The Albanese government is our biggest national security threat”

Made in Australia myth

Stop the crazy talk Judith Sloan Features Australia Getty Images Judith Sloan 13 April 2024 9:00 AM The best advice when you are in a hole is to stop digging. But this obvious recommendation clearly hasn’t sunk in for Albo as he continues his crazy, headlong push for the country to become a renewable energyContinue reading “Made in Australia myth”

Vandalism of the decolonisers

Australia’s rich cultural history is being deliberately destroyed Bella d’Abrera Getty Image Features Australia Bella d’Abrera 13 April 2024 9:00 AM It is a rare thing in today’s woke world not to be disappointed by our cultural institutions. Thus, on a recent trip to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Sydney Modern Project, IContinue reading “Vandalism of the decolonisers”

Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)

Flat White Getty Images Flat White 9 April 2024 12:17 PM Since being offered a largely pointless and doomed-to-fail role as UN special envoy to Myanmar, the former Liberal Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, has returned to the headlines. Today’s special is a bizarre story in The Guardian titled, Tony Abbott didn’t want women in his senior ministry, formerContinue reading “Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)”

Leading article Australia

Wong again The Spectator Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 13 April 2024 9:00 AM Warning, satire: In international news this week, the Israeli government has announced it plans to send a special envoy to Australia to investigate the shocking death of a friend of Israel on Australian soil two years ago. Reports from aContinue reading “Leading article Australia”

Australia should not worry about Islamic immigrants, Muslims have already taken over

Date: April 11, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 37 Comments Thousands of Muslims have gathered at Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque for the morning Eid prayer, and there’s not a single politician in sight. It’s not because they couldn’t make it. It’s because they weren’t invited. Lakemba Mosque is one of Australia’s biggest and typically on the first dayContinue reading “Australia should not worry about Islamic immigrants, Muslims have already taken over”

Senator Claims TGA ‘Overriding’ Experts While Processing Vaccine Injury Claims

Senator Gerard Rennick—a long-time opponent of vaccination—says a ‘TGA whistleblower’ has told him that the Agency is turning down most vaccine injury claims. Friends Read Free 49 Save By Rex Widerstrom 3/25/2024 Updated: 3/25/2024 0:00 5:42 Senator Gerard Rennick has alleged—under parliamentary privilege in the Senate—that the Therapeutic Goods Administration is “overriding the decision ofContinue reading “Senator Claims TGA ‘Overriding’ Experts While Processing Vaccine Injury Claims”

Why Do Communists Hate Tony Abbott So Much?

Posted byNelleOctober 8, 2022 Posted inGreat Successful and Loved Politicians- a rare bird “I guess when your ideology died thirty years ago living in the past is a bit of a hard habit to break.” By Rio DiazSeptember 18, 2022 As previously reported on Caldron Pool, Socialist Alternative (Australia’s largest communist group) is planning onContinue reading “Why Do Communists Hate Tony Abbott So Much?”

40,000 lives lost for what?

Australia is lurching towards full-blown socialism Maurice Newman [Getty Images] Maurice Newman 6 April 2024 9:00 AM In 1956, philosopher Ayn Rand wrote, ‘We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which isContinue reading “40,000 lives lost for what?”

Pluck of the Irish

Another woke referendum bites the dust Mark Higgie [Getty Images] Mark Higgie 6 April 2024 9:00 AM This will sound familiar to Australians. A leftist government makes a core part of its agenda persuading voters to ‘modernise’ the constitution by backing referendum proposals reflecting its ‘progressive’ social agenda. Rather than explaining in detail the proposedContinue reading “Pluck of the Irish”

More people does not mean more wealth

Be very sceptical about government spending on immigration James Allan [Getty Images] James Allan 6 April 2024 9:00 AM There was an absolutely brilliant take-down of one of the core assumptions underlying the Keynesian economic worldview the other day. It was in the pages of the Daily Sceptic, the creation of Toby Young who isContinue reading “More people does not mean more wealth”

Another day, another women problem for the Libs

Lillian Andrews Getty Images Lillian Andrews 6 April 2024 2:37 PM Albanese handing the Governor-General’s gig to tame activist Sam Mostyn gave the Liberals a perfect opportunity to call out Labor’s unfettered cronyism and obsession with rewarding identity politics. Faced with that opening, the Liberals scuttled away like a swarm of cockroaches fleeing a suddenContinue reading “Another day, another women problem for the Libs”

Lawmakers Reverse Climate Policies After Mass Revolt

Months of intense recruitment in many countries have culminated in the great European Farmers Revolt, which has seen mass protests, roadblocks, assaults on cheap, unregulated Ukrainian grain, port blockades, and an assault of the EU headquarters in Brussels, where agricultural workers sprayed politicians and police with liquid manure. In late February, farmers in Belgium battledContinue reading “Lawmakers Reverse Climate Policies After Mass Revolt”

Roberts issues chilling warning after Labor-Greens pass Digitial ID Bill

Date: March 28, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 38 Comments https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yfd9AQiXGqA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparentSenator Malcolm Roberts, who was outspoken against the Digital ID Bill rammed through the Senate this week. THE Federal Government will eventually make digital ID compulsory by preventing any Australian without a digital ID having access to government services, banking services, air travel and major purchases, saysContinue reading “Roberts issues chilling warning after Labor-Greens pass Digitial ID Bill”

Tony Abbott warns against complacency in the face of ‘creeping Wokeness’

A majority that stays silent does not long remain a majority Rod Lampard Getty Images Rod Lampard 22 March 2024 9:52 AM Former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is warning against complacency in the face of ‘creeping Wokeness’. The conservative Prime Minister, who ousted grandiose leftwing populist, Kevin ‘07’ Rudd, made the comments in response to Ireland’s referendumContinue reading “Tony Abbott warns against complacency in the face of ‘creeping Wokeness’”