One Mob, One Flag, A canvas full of colour with desert skies so blue, a vivid transformation, an awesome outback view. Brushstrokes of an artist depicted by so few, a land of isolation, Aussie through and through. A golden wattle landscape with dingoes on the plain, kangaroo and emu, so much more to name. EucalyptusContinue reading “Stand together in unity, divisions out the door,”
Author Archives: Nelle
Capitalising on the Activist Instincts of Unelected Judges
The Voice 3rd April 2023 Comments (28) Peter O’Brien Dr Shireen Morris seems to have secured a gig as one of The Australian’s constitutional experts promoting the Voice. She is part of a rapidly diminishing cohort. She first came to my notice when she claimed on the Kenny Report that the 1901 Constitution ‘explicitly excludedContinue reading “Capitalising on the Activist Instincts of Unelected Judges”
Aborigines
Living on Stolen Land 12th February 2023 Comments (56) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au The garb worn by the radical indigenous politician, Lidia Thorpe, during her protests on Australia Day this year had a much greater impact than she could have hoped. Waving her fake sword in the air and sporting the T-shirt slogan “SovereigntyContinue reading “Aborigines”
Louise Milligan’s Latest Anti-Catholic Frolic
31st January 2023 Media Comments (18 Paul Collits The fembots rise again. There is no such a phenomenon quite like the ex-Catholic feminist scorned. If you ever meet one, you will instantly know what I mean. I have never known such anger. And the never-quite-sated lust for revenge is palpable. Not content with having attempted toContinue reading “Louise Milligan’s Latest Anti-Catholic Frolic”
Education
‘Stolen Generations’ and the Holocaust, Same Difference 16th August 2021 Comments (8) Tony Thomas I’ve long admired the candour of Adelaide’s Woodville High teacher and union delegate Regina Wilson, who posted on her Education Union’s Facebook page three years ago: I am going to try to ensure that the next generation of voters in myContinue reading “Education”
QED
Turnbull, the Lesser of Two Weevils 3rd October 2015 Comments (14) Peter O’Brien Malcom Turnbull’s seizure of the prime ministership was despicable, not least because it was both his passive, self-serving mediocrity as a minister and active white-anting that helped create the climate for his coup. The new leader’s devious self-promotion has led many toContinue reading “QED”
Economics
Money Out the Door: Australia in the Shadow of Keynes 26th May 2023 Comments (2) Geoff Kingston Around the time of the Whitlam government (I can’t remember the exact year), I was part of a large audience for Harry G. Johnson at the National Press Club. Johnson was a distinguished economist and a big bearContinue reading “Economics”
Aborigines
The Violent Politics of Australia Day 9th January 2022 Comments (15) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au The group of Aboriginal activists and their white supporters who set fire to Old Parliament House on December 30 were marking what will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the parliament’sContinue reading “Aborigines”
Aborigines
The Break-Up of Australia: Part I 1st November 2016 Comments (7) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au The clans of east Arnhem Land join me in acknowledging no king, no queen, no church and no state. Our allegiance is to each other, to our land and to the ceremonies that define us. It is through theContinue reading “Aborigines”
‘Supportive, safe, empowering’ Qld school hosts drag queen, gang fights and student knife attack
Date: October 6, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 0 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS QUEENSLAND’s education authorities and politicians need to be slapped out of their delusional state and get the education system back to basics. We’re talking about Queensland’s Education Minister Grace Grace, a former union boss, Director General Michael De’Ath, who presides over eight other deputyContinue reading “‘Supportive, safe, empowering’ Qld school hosts drag queen, gang fights and student knife attack”
Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism
Alexandra Marshall Flat White Getty Images Alexandra Marshall 5 October 2023 3:51 AM The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist after she made hurtful remarks about men’s mental health. It was a single comment using language that mimicked hers and yet Fox,Continue reading “Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism”
Silent majority
The Spectator Australia Leading article Australia Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis The Spectator Australia 7 October 2023 9:00 AM And so here we are at a pivotal moment in Australian history. Australians must now make a decisive choice between basic traditional mainstream conservative values – let’s not change that which is notContinue reading “Silent majority”
A ‘pearson’ of platitudes
Why were the words ‘non-binding’ not included in the Voice proposal? Peter O’Brien Features Australia Getty Images Peter O’Brien 7 October 2023 9:00 AM Is there a collective noun for platitudes, I wonder? An anthology, perhaps? Never mind, I’ve got a better one. A couple of weeks ago, given the performance of our Prime MinisterContinue reading “A ‘pearson’ of platitudes”
If this space study is right, humans have never left Earth’s atmosphere
Science Feb 28, 2019 6:06 PM EDT The Earth’s atmosphere is described as a fragile coat wrapping around the planet, comparable in scale to an apple’s skin protecting the fruit. For more than half a century, even before the Apollo 16 mission captured the first ultraviolet images of Earth, researchers knew that the outermost atmosphericContinue reading “If this space study is right, humans have never left Earth’s atmosphere”
Chris Kenny’s broken clock moment
Peter O’Brien Quadrant Online 5th October 2023 For once I must agree with Chris Kenny on one aspect, at least, of the current Voice debate. Last night he took issue with the characterisation, by most Sky News commentators, of Ray Martin’s comments regarding the mantra ‘if you don’t know, vote no’. Martin was accused ofContinue reading “Chris Kenny’s broken clock moment”
Australians will say more than No, Vote for a new direction
David Flint The Spectator Australia 7 October 2023 People do not often have the opportunity, on the national level, to indicate which of two distinctly different paths they want their governments to follow, especially when the Coalition these days can too often be Labor-lite. With compulsory voting, the resulting annoyance can add to the wideningContinue reading “Australians will say more than No, Vote for a new direction”
Opinion / Business
From Qantas to PwC, corporate greed is rotting Australia from the inside out Too many corporations have been allowed to grow too powerful, greedy and unaccountable, and that greed has warped their behaviour. Quentin Beresford Oct 05, 2023 12 Share A rottenness has crept into the heart of boardroom Australia, spurred on by a systemContinue reading “Opinion / Business”
Put “Q” aside for now, Bannon & MAGA are in open warfare with a plan
Date: October 4, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 11 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS IT may well be that Trump is involved in an irregular warfare operation against the Deep State, but former Trump chief strategist and ex-US Navy Lieutenant Steve Bannon and his MAGA circle do not throw out tricky Q-style riddles when talking about their battleContinue reading “Put “Q” aside for now, Bannon & MAGA are in open warfare with a plan”
Juukan Aboriginal heritage site was approved for destruction by WA Government in 2013
Date: October 5, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 1 Comment Former government adviser Josephine Cashman, Marcia Langton and Jacinta Price. Voice proponent Langton is now trading blows with Cashman and Senator Price over the Voice NO campaign JOSEPHINE CASHMAN JAN 12, 2023 A plot to destroy Australia using the Juukan Senate Inquiry Recommendations: Juukan is not aContinue reading “Juukan Aboriginal heritage site was approved for destruction by WA Government in 2013”
Daniel Andrews, a Big Picture Man
Albo promised everyone $275. Chairman Dan left very Victorian with a $32,000 debtJames MacphersonOct 4 READ IN APP The day before Daniel Andrews called in lawyers to advise how Victoria could get out of hosting the Commonwealth Games, his deputy – the now Premier Jacinta Allan – was assuring a parliamentary committee that the Games would beContinue reading “Daniel Andrews, a Big Picture Man”
