Flat White Benjamin Crocker Getty Images Benjamin Crocker 17 March 2023 4:00 AM What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations of cosmopolitan Westerners? At first glance, the comparison is a little perplexing. But the strife and chaos descending today upon Africa’s 5thContinue reading “The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West”
Category Archives: Ignorance and Stupidity
Trying to counteract the Treasonous acts and words of those who hate Australia and Australians
Australian Notes
Australian notes Tom Lewis Getty Images Tom Lewis 18 March 2023 9:00 AM The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road a decade or so it will seem the stuff of nightmares It starts off with a pleasant vision – three of theContinue reading “Australian Notes”
More green fairy tales
Hydrogen to the rescue Features Australia Judith Sloan Getty Images Judith Sloan 4 February 2023 9:00 AM I love a good fairy tale as much as the next person: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Sun Cable. The really tragic part of this list is that it’s only Sun Cable that doesn’t have aContinue reading “More green fairy tales”
Westpac: Record immigration drives “sharp escalation in rents”
By Unconventional Economist in Australian Property at 12:05 am on March 2, 2023 | 59 comments Westpac’s latest Housing Pulse estimates that a record high 400,000 net overseas migrants landed in Australia in 2022, which was also the second highest growth rate (i.e. as a share of the total population) since the end of theContinue reading “Westpac: Record immigration drives “sharp escalation in rents””
Once upon a time
Leading article Australia The Spectator Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 18 March 2023 9:00 AM Once upon a time there lived a generation who believed they knew far more about the world than their elders did and that their wisdom on all matters was far greater than that of any generation that had goneContinue reading “Once upon a time”
WATCH: Dutch undercover police arrest protest leader
‘Four men started walking towards us’ as we were interviewing the man, Rebel reporter Callum Smiles said. ‘Until they pulled masks over their face, grabbed him without saying anything and put him in the back of a police van.’ This past weekend, Dutch farmers held a massive rally against radical emissions proposed by Prime MinisterContinue reading “WATCH: Dutch undercover police arrest protest leader”
A salve for conscience
Features Australia Foreign aid is bad policy Ramesh Thakur Getty Images Ramesh Thakur 11 March 2023 9:00 AM How many examples exist of successful economic development resulting mainly from foreign aid? What brought this heretical thought to mind is the growing unevenness in economic fortunes of the three-dozen Indian states and territories. My home stateContinue reading “A salve for conscience”
Sweetness & Light
Every Conservative is Worse than Previous Conservatives 11th March 2023 Tim Blair Columnist Australia and the world very nearly lost Tim Blair earlier this year, when he was airlifted to hospital after a most inconvenient heart attack. Under orders to take it easy, our Sweetness & Light columnist didn’t quibble with his doctors, and thusContinue reading “Sweetness & Light”
Wasting $7B on Olympics and $235m on the Voice instead should be spent on defence
Mar 13 Posted by Editor, cairnsnews By Gil May The Chinese military have been on high alert war footing for over a year, they spend 293.35 billion U.S. dollars a year on defence, THEY DO NOT DO THAT JUST TO DEFEND CHINA. The make border incursions into India testing their ability to respond, they killed anContinue reading “Wasting $7B on Olympics and $235m on the Voice instead should be spent on defence”
The Sum of Ruinous Green Delusions
Doomed Planet Tim O’Brien Labor says it will reduce 2005 CO2 emissions of 560 million tonnes by 43 per cent come 2030. That brings it down to 57 per cent of 560 = 320 million tonnes. Emissions for 2021 were about 490 million tonnes so it will be reduced by 490 – 320 = 170Continue reading “The Sum of Ruinous Green Delusions”
Aborigines
Why I Will Not Acknowledge Country Christopher Joliffe Let me set the scene for you. It is the beginning of a meeting, an assembly, a conference, a class. A quiet hush descends upon the audience: somebody with an almost perceptible halo ascends to the speaker’s place. “I would like to acknowledge,” they begin, and youContinue reading “Aborigines”
The State of Daniel Andrews: Victoria’s Governor Bligh
Politics Peter Murphy The fear of death: Ancient demagogues knew it. Thomas Hobbes knew it.[1] The fear of death trumps liberty. The necessity of acting to avoid death overrides the love of living in a free society. The fear of death communicates readily. The thought of the Grim Reaper is a great motivator. It stimulatesContinue reading “The State of Daniel Andrews: Victoria’s Governor Bligh”
Greens off on another planet
Features Australia Today’s Greens make their predecessors look sensible Judith Sloan Getty Images Judith Sloan 11 March 2023 9:00 AM It was the formidable Labor finance minister, Peter Walsh, who first described the Greens as akin to fairies at the bottom on the garden. He held their idealistic and unrealistic ideas in complete contempt. InContinue reading “Greens off on another planet”
EU: the green light arrives for cricket flour in food
Bytaketonews Jan 5, 2023 arrives, cricket, flour, food, green, light LEuropean Union has just authorized the placing on the market of Acheta domesticus, i.e. the domestic cricket, in partially defatted powder as a new food. Here’s everything we know about cricket flour. According to theFood Safety Authority cricket flour “meets the conditions for placing onContinue reading “EU: the green light arrives for cricket flour in food”
Flat White
Australia’s Woke World Cup Dom Penava Getty Images Dom Penava 20 November 2022 8:00 AM As the child of proud ethnic immigrants, some of my best memories come from watching my country’s national football team. There is something mysteriously euphoric about seeing your identity represented in the world’s most popular game. Huddling together on coldContinue reading “Flat White”
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”
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”
Watch: ministers considered ‘exterminating all cats’ in Covid
World Steerpike Getty Steerpike 2 March 2023 8:13 AM It’s not a great time to be a friend of Matt Hancock, knowing that any moment the Telegraph might splash the contents of your private WhatsApp conversations. Still, good old Jim Bethell – a veteran of the Ministry of Sound and the Department of Health –Continue reading “Watch: ministers considered ‘exterminating all cats’ in Covid”
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