This week I received a letter from Peter, a hard-working veteran and community leader from Queensland. He wrote to me about the Voice referendum. He nailed it. I thought to myself: everyone needs to read this. We need to hear the voices of Peter and other regular Aussies who aren’t bankrolled by Big Business, BigContinue reading “Some days, I get mail from people that cuts straight to the heart of an issue.”
Author Archives: Nelle
Jordan Peterson’s SAVAGE Departing Message for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce
Australian News Locally Jordan Peterson’s SAVAGE Departing Message for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce Following the departure of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, Jordan Peterson, a controversial online personality, took aim at the airline again. He previously criticized the company for playing an Aboriginal song on an airplane. In response to Joyce’s departure, Peterson posted a messageContinue reading “Jordan Peterson’s SAVAGE Departing Message for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce”
Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?
Julie Burchill World (Photo: iStock) Julie Burchill 14 August 2023 10:43 PM Reading that a 16-year-old autistic girl had been dragged from her home by seven cops after reportedly saying a female officer looked like ‘a lesbian like nana’, I had to check that we weren’t back in the 1970s of my girlhood when ‘lezzer’Continue reading “Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?”
World
We’re living through Barack Obama’s third term Ben Domenech (Photo: Getty) Ben Domenech 8 August 2023 4:51 PM One of the big questions in Washington and across the country as Joe Biden’s very public decline has accelerated is: who’s actually running the show at the White House? There have been various answers, including former WhiteContinue reading “World”
Paging the Meaning of Document 14
Peter O’Brien But wait, there’s more — a lot more In the Voice referendum campaign, can there have been a more vacuous battle than that about whether or not the Uluru Statement is a single page page or 26 pages? This is a battle that Sky News presenter Chris Kenny is determined to win. Continue reading “Paging the Meaning of Document 14”
Children need protection from adult madness
Lionel Shriver Columns [Getty Images] Lionel Shriver 9 September 2023 9:00 AM The Texas Supreme Court just upheld a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors, to explosive consternation from predictable quarters. Progressive commentators portray this and similar laws passed by more than a dozen Republican-controlled state legislatures as ‘anti-LGBTQIA+’. In truth, the lawsContinue reading “Children need protection from adult madness”
TikTok is giving our children Tourette’s
The pandemic has hit our children even harder than we thought Max Pemberton Features Max Pemberton 9 September 2023 9:00 AM Shortly after the first Covid lockdown ended, doctors began to notice something so strange that at first they struggled to explain it. There appeared to be a sudden rise in the number of childrenContinue reading “TikTok is giving our children Tourette’s”
Bruce Dowding, Australian Hero of the Resistance
Ross Fitzgerald This biography of Melbourne-born secret agent Bruce Dowding is a fascinating portrait of a remarkable young Australian whose story was previously unknown to me. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero is co-authored by Dowding’s nephew, lawyer and former West Australian ALP Premier Peter Dowding, and wide-ranging author Dr Ken Spillman. As it happens, Ken was a student of mine.Continue reading “Bruce Dowding, Australian Hero of the Resistance”
The Voice
The Exclusion of Anglos from the Voice Debate Frank Salter This is an extract from Quadrant Books’ the new publication The Voice Referendum: A Statement on Behalf of the British Australian Community by Frank Salter. The full text is available as a free download the from the Quadrant Store ======= The demand for an indigenousContinue reading “The Voice”
Flight risk
The Spectator Australia Leading article Australia Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis The Spectator Australia 9 September 2023 9:00 AM Seasoned air travellers are familiar with the sight of a swarm of masked and gloved cleaners waiting to rush on board as soon as they have disembarked to rapidly get rid of allContinue reading “Flight risk”
End the Net Zero nightmare
· Rafe Champion The Spectator Australia 6 September 2023 Matthew Warren knows as much about the energy industry as anyone and his book Blackout (2019) is a very good overview of the system. In the Financial Review on the weekend, he called for a contest of ideas and not a rigid central plan becauseContinue reading “End the Net Zero nightmare”
Aussie Life
Aussie life Tony Letford [Getty Images] Tony Letford 2 September 2023 9:00 AM Six years ago the ABC posted an article online about William Crowther, a prominent 19th-century Tasmanian politician, a statue of whom had stood in a Hobart park for 133 years. From that time, the statue’s fate was probably sealed, (‘Tasmania’s difficult history:Continue reading “Aussie Life”
Tony Abbott: with thanks to the fallen warrior
Terry Barnes Flat White Terry Barnes 22 May 2019 5:26 PM Last night former prime minister Tony Abbott succumbed to a perfect political storm: a climate zealot candidate dressed up as a faux Liberal, the sole target of a concerted, lavishly financed campaign of the chattering Left and GetUp!, and nasty, vindictive and vicious personalContinue reading “Tony Abbott: with thanks to the fallen warrior”
Tony Abbott’s record of achievement
Ten years since we elected the Anglosphere’s best recent Tory PM Mark Higgie Flat White Getty Images Mark Higgie 7 September 2023 4:00 AM A glance at Britain after thirteen years of Tory rule highlights the contrasting great achievements of Tony Abbott, our 28th Prime Minister after his landslide win against Labor ten years agoContinue reading “Tony Abbott’s record of achievement”
OLD FAITHFUL
Brumby Action Group Inc. Marilyn Nuske · · Maree Sura is feeling sad. · This is how I see Barmah National Park Some men came home, but many didn’t. OLD FAITHFUL The young man rode his horse bareback into the Barmah Forest. He stopped, got off and said: This is our special placeContinue reading “OLD FAITHFUL”
Heston Russell trial: ABC journalists defamed former commando to protect their egos, court told
Federal court hears closing submissions in defamation case brought by Russell against the public broadcaster Australian Associated PressTue 29 Aug 2023 15.07 AESTLast modified on Tue 29 Aug 2023 15.09 AEST Heston Russell, pictured outside the federal court, denies the allegations in two ABC articles and is suing for damages, saying his reputation was ruinedContinue reading “Heston Russell trial: ABC journalists defamed former commando to protect their egos, court told”
The dire state of New Zealand
Kiwis are fleeing. For good reason James Allan Features Australia New Zealand [Getty Images] James Allan 2 September 2023 9:00 AM In six weeks from now, on 14 October, voters in New Zealand will go to the polls at a general election. (As an aside, voters here in Australia will also go to the pollsContinue reading “The dire state of New Zealand”
Are we all pretending everything is ‘fine’?
Richard Kelly Flat White Pexels Richard Kelly 6 September 2023 5:00 AM You know that old trope about how the husband finally retires and then the wife finds him under her feet all day and does whatever she can to get him out of the house? Well, working from home has flipped that on itsContinue reading “Are we all pretending everything is ‘fine’?”
The road to Calvary
Paul Collits Getty Images Paul Collits 6 September 2023 4:00 AM A presentation by the estimable Fr Tony Percy, until recently Vicar-General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn, on the Australian Capital Territory government’s recent ‘takeover’ of Calvary Hospital, was just one among many outstanding speeches and papers delivered at the annual Samuel Griffith SocietyContinue reading “The road to Calvary”
25 Excellent Facts About Keanu Reeves
By Jake Rossen, Todd Gilchrist | Sep 2, 2019 | Updated: Sep 2, 2022, 12:08 PM EDT Ilya S. Savenok/GettyImages Keanu Reeves has been a Hollywood fixture since the mid-1980s, shifting from early dramatic turns in films like River’s Edge (1986) to action thrillers like Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999), and John Wick(2014) and anContinue reading “25 Excellent Facts About Keanu Reeves”
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