Date: July 3, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 30 Comments The last car made in Australia. Free-trading Liberal and Labor killed Australian manufacturing industries Letter to the Editor In 1983 (yes, 40 years ago) I was a non-TV watching, non-radio listening, non-news reading, non-political Aussie in my twenties… too busy living an amazing life with uni andContinue reading “Howard then Hawke killed off Australian manufacturing”
Category Archives: Politics
Fake indigenous author backs neo-Marxist ‘UN expert’ to push the Voice
Date: July 3, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 7 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS IF there was one outstanding example of a person being a beneficiary of Australia’s white liberal guilt industry, the author Bruce Pascoe would be it. And if there was a prime example of a prominent professor in the same position, Megan Davis (pictured) wouldContinue reading “Fake indigenous author backs neo-Marxist ‘UN expert’ to push the Voice”
Cooking with(out) gas: how green politics steals from Australians
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 20 June 2023 2:18 AM If you believe the Greens and their ‘yes men’ posse of MSM papers, Australia is banning gas to save the planet. What’s next, banning gas BBQs? Well, if Australians can’t own a home, can’t go fishing, can’t drive a ute, and can’t ‘throw aContinue reading “Cooking with(out) gas: how green politics steals from Australians”
Palaszczuk denies claim Brisbane will be renamed
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 29 June 2023 1:23 PM Social media went crazy yesterday afternoon when 4BC host Peter Gleeson casually mentioned that there were plots afoot to change Brisbane’s name to something Indigenous before the 2032 Olympics. After the news went viral, you could almost hear the ‘No’ vote surging in response.Continue reading “Palaszczuk denies claim Brisbane will be renamed”
Labor’s Censorship Bill a threat to democracy
Flat White Claire Chandler Getty Images Claire Chandler 29 June 2023 2:00 PM Who do you trust to determine what is true and what is false? To determine which news and opinion is allowed to be published, and which should be banned to ‘protect public health and safety’? It’s a fair bet that Twitter, Facebook,Continue reading “Labor’s Censorship Bill a threat to democracy”
Proposed changes by a govt immersed in idiocy
CM -Courier Mail posted by Lin Powell Lin Powell I wonder how many local people read this article in yesterday’s CM. How, you may ask, could this have happened? A popular foreshore closed to all except a select few. It came about because a group of people living on Mer (Murray Island), on the farContinue reading “Proposed changes by a govt immersed in idiocy”
Climate cringe
The Spectator Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 1 July 2023 9:00 AM The famed ‘cultural cringe’ of the Sixties and Seventies was exacerbated by the realisation that most artistic and fashionable trends back then tended to arrive on our shores several months or even years after capturing the imagination of our European and AmericanContinue reading “Climate cringe”
When vegans are worthy of our disdain
World Teresa Mull Supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Aashray Foundation appeal to the upcoming G20 working group during a campaign in Mumbai on May 19, 2023 (Getty Images) Teresa Mull 27 June 2023 11:14 PM Celebrity chef John Mountain made headlines last week for banning vegans from his restaurant,Continue reading “When vegans are worthy of our disdain”
Wildfires, climate change and forest management
Global warming has little if anything to do with recent fires Features Australia Ramesh Thakur Getty Images Ramesh Thakur 24 June 2023 9:00 AM The Canadian wildfires, with heavy smoke blanketing huge areas of the US as well, generated more catastrophising hysteria than light, just like the bushfires in Australia in the summer of 2019Continue reading “Wildfires, climate change and forest management”
Forgetting the forgotten
Flat White Beverley McArthur Getty Images Beverley McArthur 27 June 2023 4:30 AM For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, orContinue reading “Forgetting the forgotten”
Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin
Flat White Viv Forbes The Salt Bush Club Viv Forbes 28 June 2023 4:30 AM After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of the Bowen Basin, Utah wanted to embark on metals exploration. Geologists were in great demand in those days so (againstContinue reading “Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin “
No’ supporter Senator Price blows whistle on $100m-a-day Indigenous industry
Date: June 24, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 21 Comments AUSTRALIA’S outspoken conservative, Aboriginal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa-Price, has blown the whistle on the scandalous amounts of money being spent on Aboriginal welfare while other politicians claim the proposed “Voice” bureaucracy will fix the problems. Senator Price says Australian taxpayers spend at least $100 million a day onContinue reading “No’ supporter Senator Price blows whistle on $100m-a-day Indigenous industry”
Sicktoria
Daniel Andrews and a Refusal to Prosecute Roger Franklin Editor, Quadrant Online In the lower house of Victoria’s parliament on June 20, 2023, Daniel Andrews did what he does best, which is to bring any institution he or his minions oversee into disrepute. In this instance it was the parliament itself, whose members were treatedContinue reading “Sicktoria”
Religion
Five Reasons Christians Should Reject the Voice James Jeffery The looming Voice referendum continues to generate controversy across the Australian church. I think it’s fair to say most Christians are a bit confused with what it is and how they should respond. This is understandable given the polarising nature of the debate so far. ButContinue reading “Religion”
More evil videos with the odd exception
Voice campaign being “rigged” by Labor – Tony Abbott
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Cairns News poll result
Date: June 26, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 4 Comments Our poll greeted an influx that caused the system to crash in the first 20 minutes. Result up to that crash was 2989 NO votes and not one YES vote Unable to continue that site a second site was introduced to allow voting to continue Result byContinue reading “Cairns News poll result”
Robert Menzies (1894–1978)
Robert Menzies (1894–1978)Robert Menzies resigned during his first term as prime minister in 1941 after disunity between his United Australia Party, the Country Party and Independents. As a backbencher, he began speaking directly to the people through his regular Friday night radio addresses. His Forgotten People address stressed the importance of the middle class inContinue reading “Robert Menzies (1894–1978)”
Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Riccardo Bosi
SAS allegations are a ‘stitch-up’: former Lieutenant Colonel June 10, 2018 – 11:29AM The Outsiders sat down with former Australian Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Riccardo Bosi to talk about allegations that soldiers committed war crimes while operating in Afghanistan. Fairfax Media reports a Special Air Service Regiment ‘rookie’ was pressured to execute an elderly unarmedContinue reading “Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Riccardo Bosi”
Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia
Flat White John Gideon Hartnett and Augusto Zimmermann Getty Images John Gideon Hartnett and Augusto Zimmermann 24 June 2023 4:00 AM The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the July 1, 2023, in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it is to protect Aboriginal cultural sites across Western Australia. And yet, there is aContinue reading “Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia”
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