The conservative instinct We must say clearly: this is our country Jordan Abou-Zeid Getty Images Jordan Abou-Zeid 12 June 2025 1:00 AM The following is a speech given at the ACT Young Liberal Ball on the themes of youth and national identity. It is customary for Vice-Presidents during our ball to make an address onContinue reading “Flat White Politics”
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Aux bien pensants Soldiers are entitled to justice, too David Flint Getty Images David Flint 24 May 2025 9:00 AM In two world wars, military justice was administered in the field with a standard of efficiency and fairness that enjoyed the confidence of most Australian troops. Yet the Sydney Morning Herald, with neither a courtContinue reading “Features Australia”
North Shore Sydneyites fall for Holmes a Court’s big lie and stolen political narrative
Date: May 20, 2025Author: cairnsnews 7 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOS|IT appears that a slim majority of voters on Sydney’s North Shore have fallen for billionaire Simon Holmes a Court’s grand deception that his “Community Independents” movement is some sort of alternative political movement. A Court’s big lie is contained within his Climate200 organisation that proclaimsContinue reading “North Shore Sydneyites fall for Holmes a Court’s big lie and stolen political narrative”
The day the Liberal Party (music) died: from a former insider
Date: May 19, 2025Author: cairnsnews 6 Comments IN the post-election disaster mop up we feature another commentary from George Christensen, former federal National Party MP, who wants a citizen journalist presence in the Canberra press gallery but is being opposed by mainstream media. See details at this link to help George raise the $9900 heContinue reading “The day the Liberal Party (music) died: from a former insider”
Trump drops former PM Turnbull into the Albanese mold: “Weak and ineffective”
Date: March 11, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 21 Comments Cairns News finds it hard to disagree with most things Trump says or does and here he describes to a tee the arrogant former woke PM Turnbull who didn’t know if he was Liberal or Labor Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump·9h “Malcolm Turnbull, the former Prime Minister ofContinue reading “Trump drops former PM Turnbull into the Albanese mold: “Weak and ineffective””
Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right
Dan Ryan Flat White Getty Images Dan Ryan 3 February 2025 5:50 PM The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the right and left in this country have very different perspectives about how January 26, 1788 – the date a new British colonyContinue reading “Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right”
The Northern Territory has a vital role to play in defending Australia
John Storey Getty Images John Storey 11 February 2025 1:17 PM In Australia’s latest National Defence Statement, it says that: ‘Australia faces the most complex and challenging strategic environment since the second world war.’ With recent major wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the ongoing threat to Taiwan from China, it is hardContinue reading “The Northern Territory has a vital role to play in defending Australia”
USAID gifted $980k to multi-millionaire Kev’s globalist ‘think tank’
Date: February 11, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 5 Comments USAID, the Washington-based organisation allegedly “saving lives around the world”, gifted more than $USD980,000 to The Asia Society, Kevin Rudd’s pet think tank. Rudd is not only the current president and CEO of the Asia Society, he is also Australia’s ambassador to the USA and now feelingContinue reading “USAID gifted $980k to multi-millionaire Kev’s globalist ‘think tank’”
China’s spying operation in Australia
Date: February 10, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 9 Comments Pic – Getty By Harry Palmer This revelation in May 2024 by the ABC is both chilling and eye-opening, shedding light on the scale and intensity of China’s covert operations around the world. Eric’s willingness to come forward is a major risk, for revealing classified, sensitive informationContinue reading “China’s spying operation in Australia”
Black Duck, Red Ink, White Mendicant
Tony Thomas Quadrant Online February 6, 2025 It’s always a red-letter day when Bruce Pascoe’s charity Black Duck Foods reveals its latest accounts. The 2023-24 set, filed late last month, is doubly intriguing because Black Duck last June was in deep duck poo, judging by Pascoe’s begging email of June 26: We urgently need yourContinue reading “Black Duck, Red Ink, White Mendicant”
Libs to de-fund ‘lying’ green lawyers
Rex Widerstrom The Epoch Times – Politicom February 5, 2025 Already struggling to pay a $9m costs order after losing a high-profile case against energy giant Santos, the Environmental Defenders Office may be about to lose its charitable status. The federal opposition, which has said it will end the group’s $8.3m in government funding ifContinue reading “Libs to de-fund ‘lying’ green lawyers”
Australia: a land divided into tribes
Gabriël A Moens AM and Augusto Zimmermann Getty Images Gabriël A Moens AM and Augusto Zimmermann 3 February 2025 5:11 PM One knows that an election is looming when the Prime Minister criss-crosses the country and promises to dole out money – which the government may not have – to encourage people to vote forContinue reading “Australia: a land divided into tribes”
Stuart Macintyre and the Blainey Affair
Keith Windshuttle Quadrant Online February 5, 2025 At the last federal election, Kevin Rudd promised an “education revolution”. However, the appointment last month of Stuart Macintyre to draft the national history syllabus for Australian high schools is anything but revolutionary. It is a return to the past with a vengeance. It is guaranteed to entrenchContinue reading “Stuart Macintyre and the Blainey Affair”
Albo’s response to caravan terror plot is nonsense
Andrew Bolt The Herald Sun February 2, 2025 It’s crazy that Anthony Albanese wasn’t told for 10 days of a caravan found in Dural, NSW full of explosives with a list of Jewish targets. It’s also bizarre that the Prime Minister isn’t publicly demanding a head on a plate. Albanese is instead babbling that heContinue reading “Albo’s response to caravan terror plot is nonsense”
Australia goes to the Dogs, We need to shrink our governments
Dimitri Burshtein and Peter Swan The Spectator Australia 1st February 2025 And so it has come to pass. Donald J. Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. One of his key pre-election commitments was to establish a Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), a body led by billionaire Elon MuskContinue reading “Australia goes to the Dogs, We need to shrink our governments”
Donald Trump’s agenda won’t work for Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton
Paul Kelly The Australian February 1, 2025 Donald Trump has declared a new age of transformation and restoration. While Trump’s revolution will not sweep Australia, its impact will shape the mood and tenor of the coming Albanese-Dutton election contest. Trump’s muscular, nationalistic, executive power mission to “make America great again” will both excite and horrifyContinue reading “Donald Trump’s agenda won’t work for Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton”
For ABC viewers, reality must come as quite a shock
Chris Kenny The Australian February 1, 2025 When world leaders gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp this week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation that first revealed the horrors of an industrial-scale extermination program aimed at eliminating Jews, our national broadcaster did not have a camera crew or reporter in attendance. The previousContinue reading “For ABC viewers, reality must come as quite a shock”
Citizenship test failing to weed out trouble
Peta Credlin The Australian 30th January 2025 Is it too easy to become an Australian citizen? Have we let political correctness water down the thorough checks we should be making before we allow someone to call this wide brown land home? Over the break, I’ve been pondering the factors behind the current wave of anti-Semitism.Continue reading “Citizenship test failing to weed out trouble”
Australian Citizenship for Dummies
Phil Shannon Quadrant Online January 28, 2025 A recent Sky News Australia report revealed that one-third of those applying to become Australian citizens fail the citizenship test: only 187,574 of the 288,603 who took the test between June 2022 and August 2023.) This amount of flunking should be ringing bells about the quality of Australia’sContinue reading “Australian Citizenship for Dummies”
Camped By a Billabong
Most Australians know the song “Waltzing Matilda”: Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolabah tree … As that swagman was camped under a coolabah, there is a fair bet he was up along or near the River Darling. Many inland streams had Eucalyptus coolabah growing on their banks—andContinue reading “Camped By a Billabong”
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