Mervyn Bendle Quadrant Online January 26, 2025 It was the Frontier Spirit that Donald Trump invoked in his Second Inaugural Address as the force that would make America great again: The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectationsContinue reading “The Much-Maligned Frontier Spirit”
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Enough is enough: Australian history must be protected
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 28 January 2025 4:11 PM If a piece of Indigenous artwork or a sacred place is vandalised by an individual motivated by race, no one would hesitate to call it a hate crime. There would be outrage from politicians, a media frenzy, and half a dozen human rights bodiesContinue reading “Enough is enough: Australian history must be protected”
Australia is a shared history, not a conflict
Luke Powell Flat White Getty Images Luke Powell 25 January 2025 8:46 PM Was Australia ‘invaded’ by the British? I previously answered this question in detail in a previous article here. However, the article did not address the popular and misunderstood claim that British settlement is illegitimate because they did not recognise Aboriginal sovereignty underContinue reading “Australia is a shared history, not a conflict”
Patriotism is back from the dead – and young Australians revived it
Edward Schuller Flat White Getty Images Edward Schuller 25 January 2025 9:41 PM Youth. The innocence yet fearlessness of youth. We’ve all been there. Being completely humbled by a plain-speaking toddler, or squirming uncomfortably when a straight-shooting teenager says what everyone’s thinking. It’s often the youth that remind us of how far we’ve strayed fromContinue reading “Patriotism is back from the dead – and young Australians revived it”
Why I’m proud to be Australian and reject attempts to reshape our history as one of shame
Peta Credlin The Courier Mail January 24, 2025 There is something very special about the feeling you get when you fly home from overseas and the wheels touch down in Australia. Deep down in all of us, we know that to live here is to have won the lottery of life. That’s not to sayContinue reading “Why I’m proud to be Australian and reject attempts to reshape our history as one of shame”
No, Australia was not a utopia before British arrival, but it has sure gone close since
Geoffrey Blainey The Australian January 25, 2025 We should celebrate Australia Day. By various definitions this has been one of the most successful nations in the world. During the past two centuries our nation has had far more successes than failures, though the failures can’t be overlooked: they offer lessons. Most Australians have pride inContinue reading “No, Australia was not a utopia before British arrival, but it has sure gone close since”
A nation united under one flag is worth celebrating
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price The Australian January 24, 2025 While Australia Day comes around every year with its debates about meaning and whether we can utter its name or not, this year feels different. Last year, the divisive voice referendum and abhorrent attack in Israel on October 7, 2023 were events still fresh in ourContinue reading “A nation united under one flag is worth celebrating”
Sydney Mayor Clover Moore snubs Australia Day hands $2m to Chinese New Year mob to conduct a 19 day party
Date: January 26, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 17 Comments The Founding of Australia by Captain Arthur Phillip RN, Sydney Cove, Jan 26, 1788, by Algernon Talmage, 1937. State Library NSW By Alison Bevege January 26 is not just Australia Day, it was the first settlement of Sydney. The First Fleet set up camp in Sydney Cove onContinue reading “Sydney Mayor Clover Moore snubs Australia Day hands $2m to Chinese New Year mob to conduct a 19 day party”
Dedicated to revenge: anti-Australian activism must end
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 24 January 2025 6:10 PM It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut down colonial trees as an act of protest while also believing that we are in the middle of a world-ending climate apocalypse. Attempting toContinue reading “Dedicated to revenge: anti-Australian activism must end”
Australia was not invaded
Luke Powell Getty Images Luke Powell 18 January 2025 11:58 PM Was Australia invaded by Britain on January 26, 1788? For a growing number of people, our national holiday, which marks the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, represents an ‘invasion’. According to recent polling, 69 per cent of Australians want to keepContinue reading “Australia was not invaded”
JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia
Michael de Percy Flat White Getty Images Michael de Percy 19 January 2025 7:36 PM I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was in Shanghai in 2018. It turns out it was the most unlikely of places to buy the book – aContinue reading “JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia”
Trump cancels from today the climate scam, WHO, DEI, transgender, restores free speech, pardons J6 participants……Australian pollies still asleep but it is coming to bite them
Date: January 21, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 20 Comments Australian Greens and their bedmates Labor will be having fits under the banyan tree in the parliamentary courtyard. Trump tells the oil industry, “Drill baby Drill!” By staff writers At his inauguration Trump reiterated the US quest for oil self-sufficiency by declaring an energy emergency, unleashing theContinue reading “Trump cancels from today the climate scam, WHO, DEI, transgender, restores free speech, pardons J6 participants……Australian pollies still asleep but it is coming to bite them”
Labor’s huge call on gas is economic sabotage
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun January 19, 2025 Donald Trump promised Americans he’d “drill, baby, drill” for gas the day he’s sworn in as President. In contrast, the Albanese government last week announced it would ban, baby, ban. Talk about economic sabotage. On Friday, Industry Minister Ed Husic said he was stopping Asset Energy from exploringContinue reading “Labor’s huge call on gas is economic sabotage”
Multiculturalism in Australia, RIP?
Stephen Chavura The Spectator Australia 18 January 2025 ‘Australia’s culture is multiculturalism.’ This was the answer my high school teacher gave when my class was discussing what Australian culture is back in late 1990s. Apparently, Germany, Lebanon, France, and every other country in history had a culture, but not Australia, which was merely a collectionContinue reading “Multiculturalism in Australia, RIP?”
All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’
Dennis Shanahan The Australian January 17, 2025 Suddenly, all eyes are on Peter Dutton. Yes, 2025 is an election year with a poll to be held within months and he is the Opposition Leader, but there is more to the strength and tone of the focus than just the usual uptick in interest in theContinue reading “All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’”
The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 15 January 2025 1:23 PM Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected (if not ideologically unreliable) duopoly that pass the crown between themselves every three years? Or is it the ravenous press, whose ranks are padded-outContinue reading “The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge”
Australia an awful place to invest: Business Council of Australia
Date: January 17, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 10 Comments Northern Territory leading the way to curb Labor’s stumbling blocks: Pic Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro By Jim O’Toole The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party administration is fed up with the myriad of Labor’s restrictive development policies, cruel mining regulations, extortionist wage demands and ridiculous union safety rulesContinue reading “Australia an awful place to invest: Business Council of Australia”
Celebrate Australia – or else!
Naziya Alvi Rahman The Epoch Times – Politicom January 15, 2025 Liberal Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to force all local councils to hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26 — Australia Day. “I don’t want us to be divided. I want us to stand up for what we believe in – we will do thatContinue reading “Celebrate Australia – or else!”
Greens shaken as Dutton ascends
Rex Widerstrom The Epoch Times – Politicom January 11, 2025 The Greens have insisted they’ll play no part in supporting a Liberal minority government after the next federal election. With recent opinion polls suggesting a possible minority government led by Peter Dutton, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said her Party would use the Senate to blockContinue reading “Greens shaken as Dutton ascends”
Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?
Reg Hamilton Getty Images Reg Hamilton 8 January 2025 2:00 AM The 19th Century Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’ As if putting the Prince’s words into practice, Europe invented the idea of ‘progress’. Progress was a strange thing forContinue reading “Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?”
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