Senator Babet The Spectator Australia December 10, 2024 Liberal leader Peter Dutton is winning in the polls as he continues to take his cues from the United Australia Party. Mr Dutton’s latest election promise – to drop the Aboriginal flag from government press conferences – is something I have been doing and advocating for sinceContinue reading “Opening the Overton window”
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Striking a blow for men – and against media bias
Sarah Game The Spectator Australia December 10, 2024 Mainstream media often blithely dismisses viewpoints or ideas from what it considers unfashionable or undesirable sources. I experienced another example of it recently, when a successful initiative I have driven in South Australia was brushed off and disparaged, simply because of its connection to One Nation. ForContinue reading “Striking a blow for men – and against media bias”
Australia can’t wimp out on migration debate
Tony Abbott The Australian December 11, 2024 John Howard was right when he famously declared, in the run-up to the 2001 election: “We shall decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come”. Immigration has such ramifications for the economy, for society and potentially for security too that it has toContinue reading “Australia can’t wimp out on migration debate”
Australia a foreign country for Australians
Fred Pawle Politicom December 10, 2024 THE Albanese Government has given up pretending that parliament bears any influence on its policies. Crucial decisions are being made even before MPs have had a chance to debate them. The past is no longer a foreign country, as English novelist LP Hartley once asserted. If you want toContinue reading “Australia a foreign country for Australians”
With LNP/ALP trying hard to disarm Aussies, crazed, armed home invaders injure 71 year old, shoot up kitchen clock at Ipswich
Date: December 3, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 7 Comments Crazed home invaders ransacked this Ipswich home looking for valuables while a 71 year old home occupant allegedly was shot at and had his arm broken Had the home occupants in this incident had access to a firearm the outcome of this violent invasion and physical assaultContinue reading “With LNP/ALP trying hard to disarm Aussies, crazed, armed home invaders injure 71 year old, shoot up kitchen clock at Ipswich”
Corporate clowns order pub managers not to celebrate Australia Day
Date: December 2, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 35 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSJUST when we hoped that the ideological claptrap being pushed by corporate boards was going out of fashion, along comes Australian Venue Company, owner of some 200 pubs and other venues Australia wide. List of Australian Venue pubs Australia wide-boycott This company has slapped loyalContinue reading “Corporate clowns order pub managers not to celebrate Australia Day”
Faruqi’s Special Kind of Privilege
Peter O’Brien Quadrant Online 1st December 2024 Imagine, if you will, a person who is told of a death in her next-door neighbour’s family. “Oh, I’m sorry to hear of your loss”, she tells the distraught neighbour, “but, to be honest, I never really liked your mother.” Would this person – let’s call her MehreenContinue reading “Faruqi’s Special Kind of Privilege”
Chaos, petulance and tantrums. Just how much lower can the upper house go?
Gemma Tognini The Australian November 29, 2024 I would like to have a conversation about the state of the Australian Senate. Not something I feel like doing every day but I’m in a mood. You know the Senate, don’t you? The chamber with red seats, not green; the “upstairs” joint that was designed as aContinue reading “Chaos, petulance and tantrums. Just how much lower can the upper house go?”
Victorian treaty set to create new class of privileged Indigenous
Date: November 27, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 19 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSCAIRNS News and our readers might like to know how a state government in Australia such as Victoria can enter into a treaty, given that treaties come under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade i.e. DFAT’s International Law: Advising and Treaties Section which “isContinue reading “Victorian treaty set to create new class of privileged Indigenous”
Inside lawfare plot to block Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas project
Inside lawfare plot to block Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas project Geoff Chambers and Paul Garvey The Australian November 26, 2024 Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork andContinue reading “Inside lawfare plot to block Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas project”
Could Premier Jacinta Allan explain why she’s even doing this?
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun November 24, 2024 The Victorian government refuses to say what it’s ready to give away as it negotiates the first state treaty with people claiming to be Aboriginal. For a start, I notice that everyone on the First Peoples Assembly that the government is negotiating with seems to have white ancestryContinue reading “Could Premier Jacinta Allan explain why she’s even doing this?”
Lidia Thorpe faces Senate censure over antics at King Charles’ speech
Sarah Ison and Noah Yim The Australian November 18, 2024 Controversial independent senator Lidia Thorpe says the major parties are planning to move a censure motion against her today, following her protest of King Charles III last month. She said that with the motion, the major parties were “giving her a renewed opportunity” to callContinue reading “Lidia Thorpe faces Senate censure over antics at King Charles’ speech”
Donald Trump’s garbage truck is now coming for Anthony Albanese.
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun November 10, 2024 Albanese said seven years ago that Trump made him “s–t scared”, and we’re about to see just why. Now that Trump has been elected president, our Prime Minister has three more big fights on his hands, and each a loser for him: climate, free speech and … KevinContinue reading “Donald Trump’s garbage truck is now coming for Anthony Albanese.”
Treacherous Teal tarts show totalitarian colours by backing Labor’s MAD bill
Date: November 9, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 3 Comments NOT even the Liberal Party of Australia with its limp-wristed centrists and feminists or even the United Nations could support Labor’s so-called Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. But when the Bill came up for the vote in the House of Representatives this week during the US election andContinue reading “Treacherous Teal tarts show totalitarian colours by backing Labor’s MAD bill”
Kevin Rudd facing ‘deafening chorus’ of calls to resign as Ambassador to the US
Stephen Drill Herald Sun November 8, 2024 Kevin Rudd is hanging on with his fingernails to Australia’s top diplomatic post in Washington after the Albanese Government was caught flat footed by Donald Trump’s clean sweep election victory. The former Australian Prime Minister is facing a deafening chorus of calls for him to resign as Australia’sContinue reading “Kevin Rudd facing ‘deafening chorus’ of calls to resign as Ambassador to the US”
Governor General Hurley left his post, gone from office in January
Date: February 17, 2022Author: Editor, cairnsnews 32 Comments Victoria state Governor appointed as replacement – Constitutional crisis not mentioned in MSM PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, by Commission under Her Royal Sign Manual and the Great Seal of Australia dated 19 July 2016, appointed me, the Honourable Linda Dessau, Companion of theContinue reading “Governor General Hurley left his post, gone from office in January”
For The Love of Horses
Aaron ‘Tommy’ Woodcock (1905–1985), horse strapper and trainer, was the son of a Cobb & Co driver and was close to horses from childhood. Apprenticed as a jockey at fourteen, he moved from the north coast of NSW to Randwick, where he won three of his first four starts. Although he weighed just 32 kilosContinue reading “For The Love of Horses”
An open letter to the Honourable David Crisafulli MP
Kenelm Tonkin Getty Images Kenelm Tonkin 29 October 2024 11:57 PM Dear Premier, First off, congrats! Here you are, keys to the kingdom in hand – and what a kingdom it is. Queensland – land of sun, sand, and the occasional catastrophic budget blowout. Your mission? Embody the libertarian reforming zeal of Sir Samuel Griffith,Continue reading “An open letter to the Honourable David Crisafulli MP”
Lidia the landlady demands the rent
Thorpe delivers a masterclass in seizing stolen headlines Rebecca Weisser Getty Images Rebecca Weisser 26 October 2024 9:00 AM ‘You are not my king…You are a genocidalist,’ screamed Senator Lidia Thorpe at King Charles III on Monday. Annabel Crabb, ABC writer, presenter and commentator on Australian politics for nearly 25 years called the rant ‘aContinue reading “Lidia the landlady demands the rent”
A win is still a win: How David Crisafulli has a chance to reshape Queensland’s future
Jamie Walker The Australian October 27, 2024 David Crisafulli says he learned from the mistakes the Newman government made when he was a rookie minister – mistakes that cost him his seat in the Queensland parliament, and nearly his political career. The question is can the Liberal National Party leader dig deep once again andContinue reading “A win is still a win: How David Crisafulli has a chance to reshape Queensland’s future”
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