Blame the political class David Flint Getty Images David Flint 31 May 2025 9:00 AM A small population on a resource-rich continent, we Australians should be significantly wealthier. Our GDP per capita, around US$65,000, should be at least 50 per cent higher. Instead, we are going backwards. In the two years to March 2024, householdsContinue reading “Australia gets poorer”
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Racist and communist: Vic Labor’s ‘Chinese only’ meeting angers locals
Date: March 13, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 36 Comments THE Victorian Labor Party, in cahoots with Federal Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and former Premier Dan Andrews, have shown themselves to be blatantly racist when it suits them. Even worse, they appear to be appeasing the pro-CCP communist factions of Melbourne’s very large Chinese community. OnContinue reading “Racist and communist: Vic Labor’s ‘Chinese only’ meeting angers locals”
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””
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”
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”
Will we follow Germany’s path to oblivion?
Ian Plimer The Spectator Australia February 8, 2025 There are long-term consequences for rabid misguided environmentalism. Take Europe, where fossil fuels, mining, industry and agriculture have been under relentless attack for decades. Major heavy industry is moving elsewhere, many German cars are now no longer made in Germany, almost all mines have closed and cowsContinue reading “Will we follow Germany’s path to oblivion?”
Gorilla about to devour Labor’s green dream
Chris Uhlmann the Australian January 31, 2025 In November a banana taped to a wall sold at a New York auction for $9.57m. Or rather, the idea of the artwork, called Comedian, sold. What crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought was a certificate of authenticity that gives him sole authority to gaffer-tape a banana to aContinue reading “Gorilla about to devour Labor’s green dream”
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”
Gradually, then suddenly: we need to be ready for geopolitical shocks
Mike Pezzullo The Australian January 10, 2025 Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises (1926) that bankruptcy occurs gradually and then suddenly. This should be treated as a rule of geopolitical affairs. For centuries, political structures and hierarchies of power that once were thought to be unchanging often suddenly vanished. Demise was gradual butContinue reading “Gradually, then suddenly: we need to be ready for geopolitical shocks”
Noxious Imports and Virtuous Tariffs
Peter Smith Quadrant Online January 4, 2025 Need a change of pace. My last two QoL posts have been about the excesses flowing from Islam. As usual, the topic draws the odd rationalisation: to wit, all religions at some point have spawned the persecution of non-believers, and that hoary chestnut, namely that the Old TestamentContinue reading “Noxious Imports and Virtuous Tariffs”
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”
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