Reg Hamilton Flat White Getty Images Reg Hamilton 17 June 2025 6:28 PM Donald Horne complained in 1964 that we were ‘derivative’ with ‘second rate’ leaders. The coming of British liberties in 1788 led to remarkably modern liberal democracies in the 1850s. Votes for all men, self-government, and the secret ballot, in the colonies ofContinue reading “Is Australia derivative?”
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The need for a citizen’s militia is urgent; Katter says train the high school kids to use guns
Date: May 25, 2025Author: cairnsnews 35 Comments Australia’s quintessential, octogenarian politician Bob Katter just keeps on getting re-elected, having never lost a state or federal election in 50 years. LibLab has tried many times to take his ultra-safe seat of Kennedy, one of the biggest in Australia and twice the size of Tasmania. The leftContinue reading “The need for a citizen’s militia is urgent; Katter says train the high school kids to use guns”
Electoral roll has increased by 870,000 people since the 2022 federal election, a rise of 5%, look out Dutton and marginals
Date: April 14, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 7 Comments Thousands of recent migrants in Sydney and Melbourne have been added to the electoral roll since the 2022 election Townsville Bureau Conservative political parties and candidates should be readying themselves for GetUp troops and union dummies filling buses and descending on pre-poll centres in marginal electorates toContinue reading “Electoral roll has increased by 870,000 people since the 2022 federal election, a rise of 5%, look out Dutton and marginals”
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”
Will declassified JFK,RFK, MLK documents reveal the dirty work of the real deep state?
Date: January 24, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 14 Comments PRESIDENT Trump has signed an executive order to declassify all remaining federal records concerning the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr has already produced some intriguing information about JFK’s alleged assassin. One posting on X claimed newly unclassified sections ofContinue reading “Will declassified JFK,RFK, MLK documents reveal the dirty work of the real deep state?”
ABC in meltdown over release of JFK assassination files
Date: January 24, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 21 Comments The ABC is in meltdown over US President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to release documents relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy by Deep State in 1963. He will also release files relating to the killing of Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King inContinue reading “ABC in meltdown over release of JFK assassination files”
The age of transhumanism is now upon us
Bill Muehlenberg CultureWatch January 16, 2025 The world of AI is now fully part of our lives, and whether it becomes our ruin or our salvation remains to be seen, but many, including myself, tend to back the former option. It is developing at exponential rates, and it seems there will be no stopping it.Continue reading “The age of transhumanism is now upon us”
big brother, Federal Politics, Local News, Pauline Hanson
John Howard admits demonising Pauline Hanson was a BIG mistake!! Date: October 21, 2016Author: Editor, cairnsnews 8 Comments By Belinda Cleary ‘Don’t marginalise Pauline Hanson or her supporters’: Former PM John Howard warns politicians One Nation supporters are ‘not racists or bigots’ Former prime minister John Howard has warned it would be wrong to repeatContinue reading “big brother, Federal Politics, Local News, Pauline Hanson”
Larry Pickering – Controversial Australian Political Newspaper Cartoonist
Posted On : August 11, 2021 Published By : Colin Larry Pickering was among the most known political cartoonists in Australia who has won four Walkley Awards for his work. He is best known for creating the “Pickering’s Playmates” series of calendars that had naked politicians in the cartoons during the 80s. His calendars wereContinue reading “Larry Pickering – Controversial Australian Political Newspaper Cartoonist”
Rudd is a grub,’ says Larry Pickering
Date: March 23, 2013Author: Editor, cairnsnews 0 Comments COWARDS, LIARS AND TRAITORSby Larry Pickering Simon Crean was no fan of Rudd’s. He was a fan of stability and forced Rudd to either shit or get off the potty. Rudd is now off the potty.Having known Simon Crean’s Dad, it is doubtful the apple fell farContinue reading “Rudd is a grub,’ says Larry Pickering”
Larry Pickering
Date: October 22, 2017Author: Editor, cairnsnews 3 Comments THE DIARIES OF PETER BEATTIE’S MISTRESS Larry Pickering Four-time Walkley Award winning political commentator and Churchill Fellow, recently returned to the fray over concern that news sources are being threatened by the Gillard Government. BlogFacebook Contact This article was first published in Cairns News three years ago.Continue reading “Larry Pickering”
It’s the end of the long 20th century as liberalism exits
James Marriott The Times-The Australian January 8, 2025 The caption reads “The world you were born into no longer exists”. The grainy photograph it accompanies shows a small blonde girl standing alone in an empty park. In the background, against a faded blue sky, are the two silver towers of the World Trade Centre. ThisContinue reading “It’s the end of the long 20th century as liberalism exits”
Cancel Cowards
Amy Brooke Quadrant Online December 6, 2024 Although the move throughout the West to impose a cancel culture as a form of control seems to be nearing its apex, the fight against the truth has been decades in the making. For example, when moving some decades ago to Nelson, I tried to get from theContinue reading “Cancel Cowards”
From 1991, a prescient warning about the globalist agenda
John Ellwood The Conservative Woman December 9, 2024 AS A student of International Relations in the early 1970s I had no idea of the depths of my ignorance. The motto of my alma mater, the London School of Economics, is ‘rerum cognoscere causas’, an abbreviation of Virgil’s phrase ‘Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas’, meaningContinue reading “From 1991, a prescient warning about the globalist agenda”
Australian Rhyming Poets
nsortdpeoS0mt9am553tihmhflmtat23ltmtgahu57li5hcgm4l8ga2u118f · I thought I would share one of Dominic Sheridan’s Great War poems in order to remember man’s best friend who serves us in peace and in war, and sometimes makes the ultimate sacrifice. And my heart just broke in pieces … By D.P.G. Sheridan … 11/5/2015 Did you know they used young healthyContinue reading “Australian Rhyming Poets”
Nelle's journey 