Category Archives: Corruption

Game, set and match on Australia’s Covid response

Flat White Dom Penava Getty Images Dom Penava 4 February 2023 5:00 AM Twelve months ago, Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia for allegedly (and essentially, by way of description from the minister) harbouring anti-vax sentiment. Let that sink in – he didn’t commit a thought crime, which in itself is a ridiculous charge, heContinue reading “Game, set and match on Australia’s Covid response”

From lockdown paradise to love island: Australia’s bizarre pilfering of UK doctors

Flat White Noel Yaxley Getty Images Noel Yaxley 6 March 2023 2:48 PM Last week, whilst perusing the internet, I stumbled upon a rather amusing story. It turns out a delegation from Western Australia has been dispatched to the UK in a bid to lure underpaid and overworked British workers with the promise of higher wages andContinue reading “From lockdown paradise to love island: Australia’s bizarre pilfering of UK doctors”

The RBA (reckless bank of Australia) needs a radical, not reserved, review

Flat White Darren Nelson Getty Images Darren Nelson 3 March 2023 5:00 AM In a YouTube clip from the BBC show Blackadder II entitled The Idiots Guide to Alchemy, an exchange between Lord Blackadder (LB) and Lord Percy (LP) proceeds as follows: LP: ‘My Lord! Success!’ LB: ‘What?’ LP: ‘After literally an hour’s ceaseless searching I have succeeded inContinue reading “The RBA (reckless bank of Australia) needs a radical, not reserved, review”

What happens when a state fails

World Gabriel Gavin (Photo: Alamy) Gabriel Gavin 5 March 2023 8:00 PM Beirut, Lebanon ‘You can still smell it in the wind,’ says Maria. She points out from the neon-lit bar along Beirut’s shorefront to the dark port area just across the road, where tangled metal and broken concrete jut out into the sky. MariaContinue reading “What happens when a state fails”

Australia’s social credit score Olympics

Flat White Tim Cudmore Getty Images Tim Cudmore 6 March 2023 5:00 AM ‘Made in China’ … three words that most people on the planet will recognise. For more than half a century, China has been known as the home of mass production and low-cost imitation. With its mammoth labour force and insatiable appetite forContinue reading “Australia’s social credit score Olympics”

The fact-checker industrial complex

Flat White Paul Collits Getty Images Paul Collits 6 March 2023 5:30 AM I tuned in the other day to an excellent webinar titled Prayer and Pushback organised by the redoubtable Pat Mesiti. It was a forum for Covid dissenters, Woke critiques, and climate deplorables. A similar event of Pat’s a year ago earned scrutiny from some publicationsContinue reading “The fact-checker industrial complex”

Put Your Faith in Democracy? It’s Getting Harder

QED Peter Smith Frequent contributor Having coffee as usual with a number of friends on Friday morning. Don’t want to over-claim, but we all meet the average IQ of Australians, I think. None of us understood the details and implications of the superannuation changes announced by Jim Chalmers. I had made the mistake of readingContinue reading “Put Your Faith in Democracy? It’s Getting Harder”

Australian Notes

Australian notes John Stone Getty Images John Stone 4 March 2023 9:00 AM When the Australian editorialises (24/02/23) that, ‘No one who has followed [its] reporting over decades could remain untouched by the misery afflicting many of our Indigenous communities’ (it means Aboriginal communities, but let that common error pass), it can so claim withoutContinue reading “Australian Notes”

Climate change: short on proof, drowning in nonsense

Flat White Alan Moran Pexels Alan Moran 28 February 2023 4:30 AM The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such banner raised by the disgruntled that has conditioned politics since Medieval times. Earlier eras saw politics underpinned by a struggle against government taxationContinue reading “Climate change: short on proof, drowning in nonsense”

The End is Here

Turkish Space Agency Clarification about February 6 Earthquake February 28, 2023Algora Blog1 Comment Spread the Word While speaking at an earlier conference, Turkish Space Agency director Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım had described a weapon being developed by the United States, as follows: “There are military satellites that can shoot 10-meter titanium alloy rods from space toContinue reading “The End is Here”

Bombshell Report: Romanian Senator Diana Sosoaca says people had to die by premeditated earthquakes triggered in Turkey

Feb 13 Posted by Editor, cairnsnews Senator blames Deep State for causing the devastating earthquake which so far has killed 33,000 people in Turkey In a dramatic speech to Parliament on Friday Senator Sosoaca said President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had upset World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab by leaving halfway through a pressContinue reading “Bombshell Report: Romanian Senator Diana Sosoaca says people had to die by premeditated earthquakes triggered in Turkey”

Jonesy stumbles

Features Australia But unions rule Judith Sloan Getty Images Judith Sloan 25 February 2023 9:00 AM It was the first political setback for the Albanese government. Most senators – Coalition, Greens, the Jacqui Lambie Network – combined to overrule a disallowance motion inserted by hapless Assistant Treasurer, Stephen Jones, to keep the release of informationContinue reading “Jonesy stumbles”

Sodoms for the Voice

Feb 28 Posted by Editor, cairnsnews By Lyndesy Symonds Not all the high-tech proactive crowd management decision making in the world could safeguard the Sodomy Parade from Lidia Thorpe and prevent her efforts to upstage the pride events of Feb 25. Lidia was forcibly removed from the Parade by police for laying down in frontContinue reading “Sodoms for the Voice”

The Voice

Aboriginality with Settler Characteristics Peter Smith Frequent contributor Simon Longstaff of The Ethics Centre recently (16 February) had what I thought an interesting pro-Voice piece in The Australian. It had merit in principle though not, I will argue, in practice. It’s a case of principle suffering the debilitation of passing time. Ronald Ryan (the lastContinue reading “The Voice”

Smile for the CCTV, ensure your phone is on and say hello to Albo at the Sydney Mardi Gras

Feb 24 Posted by Editor, cairnsnews Several CCTV cameras with sophisticated data analytics software that monitors crowd mood and density will be temporarily installed along Sydney’s Oxford Street as part of the Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday. Technology that counts mobile phones by measuring radiofrequency has been separately installed at several shopfronts in Darlinghurst andContinue reading “Smile for the CCTV, ensure your phone is on and say hello to Albo at the Sydney Mardi Gras”

Former PM Paul Keating: let’s ditch the US and side with China

If you’re not begging for “good and appropriate relations” with the CCP, former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating reckons you’re a “little American” who can’t think for himself. Just this week, ASIO warned that many Australian leaders don’t think Chinese espionage is a problem to be dealt with (should it jeopardise our economic ties withContinue reading “Former PM Paul Keating: let’s ditch the US and side with China”

The lost generation: a global assault on children and young people

Flat White Michael Jackson Getty Images Michael Jackson 24 February 2023 4:00 AM Last week, Australia’s children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, spoke passionately about the myriad impacts children and young people had endured due to Covid lockdowns and school closures. She outlined, for example, the mental health impacts like self-harm and depression and highlighted those childrenContinue reading “The lost generation: a global assault on children and young people”

Change of Power

On February 27 the Biden administration will officially sign over sovereign power to the Bill Gates funded World Health Organization. The pandemic treaty gives the WHO the power to declare and manage global pandemic emergencies. This would mean that they could mandate lockdowns, vaccine mandates, vaccine supplies and distribution and monitoring and surveillance of populations.