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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Flat White Politics
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”
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””
Gutless Kiwi PM Luxon ‘values diversity’ and chides church for oppposing this
Date: February 18, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 19 Comments THE transvestite featured at an Auckland library reading for children is often seen on stage proudly displaying a cross on his crotch. The performer has described himself as a “slut and a stripper”, but today he or she’s being “all nice” and respectable, reading books to kidsContinue reading “Gutless Kiwi PM Luxon ‘values diversity’ and chides church for oppposing this”
EU ‘swamp ’em with immigration’ policy now under threat by ‘far right’
Date: February 10, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 12 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSMAINSTREAM parties in Germany and France are in a panic as the so-called “far right” parties grow in popularity. Germany’s anti-immigration AfD (Alternative for Germany) Party is looking strong for new elections on February 23rd, while in France the growth of Marie Le Pen’s nationalistsContinue reading “EU ‘swamp ’em with immigration’ policy now under threat by ‘far right’”
In Marxist mythology, the Europeans always stole the land from the ‘original’ inhabitants and wiped them out
Date: February 10, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 7 Comments By Lyndesy Symonds In official Marxist history, mythology and narration, Europeans are not even allowed to regard ourselves as indigenous to Europe. So it should not surprise anyone that a person who is racially of European descent would not be allowed to be ‘indigenous’ in a WesternContinue reading “In Marxist mythology, the Europeans always stole the land from the ‘original’ inhabitants and wiped them out”
The golden age for Jews is over, What caused the West’s decline, and where do we go from here?
Bari Weiss The Australian February 7, 2025 Did you know that Joseph Stalin could sing with perfect pitch? Or that he was so scared of his wife that he would hide from her in the bathroom? Did you know that Peter the Great liked to surround himself with naked dwarfs? Did you know Catherine theContinue reading “The golden age for Jews is over, What caused the West’s decline, and where do we go from here?”
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”
Woke WEF appointees parrot alleged ‘indigenous answers’ to ‘climate crisis’
Date: February 8, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 19 Comments BY MICHAEL SLOVANOSTHE World Economic Forum is not giving up on it’s fraudulent campaign of touting so-called “young indigenous leaders” as being the front-line troops in the fight against their phantom “climate crisis”. The New Zealand “indigenous” representative Peter-Lucas Jones has the looks of a gay manContinue reading “Woke WEF appointees parrot alleged ‘indigenous answers’ to ‘climate crisis’”
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”
Australia’s Marxist government: Diversity is our strength
Date: February 1, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 18 Comments By Lyndesy Symonds A lot of people call (and are called) Nazis, fascists, communists, Marxists, racists, anti-semitic as smear words depending upon the caller’s orientation with the big three: sex, religion, politics. It would be a good idea to make every effort to understand these words, theirContinue reading “Australia’s Marxist government: Diversity is our strength”
Who are the real Nazis? SA Labor’s hit squad played the role perfectly
Date: January 30, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 16 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSTHE Australian National Socialists, commonly referred to by media and politicians as “neo-Nazis”, a “far right hate group” and other such pejoratives, are, as far as we know, an ultra-nationalist group that believes in maintaining Australia as a largely white European nation. Once upon aContinue reading “Who are the real Nazis? SA Labor’s hit squad played the role perfectly”
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”
The Much-Maligned Frontier Spirit
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”
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”
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