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”
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Australia gets poorer
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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Aux bien pensants Soldiers are entitled to justice, too David Flint Getty Images David Flint 24 May 2025 9:00 AM In two world wars, military justice was administered in the field with a standard of efficiency and fairness that enjoyed the confidence of most Australian troops. Yet the Sydney Morning Herald, with neither a courtContinue reading “Features Australia”
North Shore Sydneyites fall for Holmes a Court’s big lie and stolen political narrative
Date: May 20, 2025Author: cairnsnews 7 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOS|IT appears that a slim majority of voters on Sydney’s North Shore have fallen for billionaire Simon Holmes a Court’s grand deception that his “Community Independents” movement is some sort of alternative political movement. A Court’s big lie is contained within his Climate200 organisation that proclaimsContinue reading “North Shore Sydneyites fall for Holmes a Court’s big lie and stolen political narrative”
The day the Liberal Party (music) died: from a former insider
Date: May 19, 2025Author: cairnsnews 6 Comments IN the post-election disaster mop up we feature another commentary from George Christensen, former federal National Party MP, who wants a citizen journalist presence in the Canberra press gallery but is being opposed by mainstream media. See details at this link to help George raise the $9900 heContinue reading “The day the Liberal Party (music) died: from a former insider”
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””
international, MAGA, United States, US election
USAID’s ‘top 20 non-profits’ shared $4.559 billion from gravy train Date: February 16, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 18 Comments WHILE the Washington Post sheds tears over the Trump-Musk routing of USAID and its staff being forced to flee the Democratic Republic of Congo., the vast reach and largesse of this organisation is evident from an articleContinue reading “international, MAGA, United States, US election”
Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right
Dan Ryan Flat White Getty Images Dan Ryan 3 February 2025 5:50 PM The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the right and left in this country have very different perspectives about how January 26, 1788 – the date a new British colonyContinue reading “Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right”
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”
TRUMP DOES THE UNTHINKABLE. by Liz Crokin
As an entertainment journalist, I’ve had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I’ve never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities likeContinue reading “TRUMP DOES THE UNTHINKABLE. by Liz Crokin”
USAID gifted $980k to multi-millionaire Kev’s globalist ‘think tank’
Date: February 11, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 5 Comments USAID, the Washington-based organisation allegedly “saving lives around the world”, gifted more than $USD980,000 to The Asia Society, Kevin Rudd’s pet think tank. Rudd is not only the current president and CEO of the Asia Society, he is also Australia’s ambassador to the USA and now feelingContinue reading “USAID gifted $980k to multi-millionaire Kev’s globalist ‘think tank’”
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”
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”
The DOGE-esque plan to save $90 billion
Flat White The Spectator Australia February 8, 2025 We have been asking for some Trumpian politics, and perhaps we have found it in a press conference yesterday. One Nation Senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts joined forces to announce a plot to put ‘$40 billion back into Australian pockets’. It was a crowd-pleasing batchContinue reading “The DOGE-esque plan to save $90 billion”
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’”
Christian Lobby should tell Labor-Liberal: We’re with freedom parties
Date: February 7, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 26 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSANTI-vilification and hate crime laws should protect communities from real threats, says the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) CEO Michelle Pearse. “But instead of tackling genuine concerns—like the rise of antisemitism—governments are using these laws to expand protected attributes and push radical agendas. The result? MoreContinue reading “Christian Lobby should tell Labor-Liberal: We’re with freedom parties”
Muslims target of hate crimes bill, thanks to Mark Liebler, Albanese and Dutton
Date: February 9, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 4 Comments From Sydney Criminal Lawyers The Albanese government’s hate crimes bill had always been divisive because of the way it was wielded by government during heated public debate about the Gaza genocide. Yet the now passed laws that the attorney general said last year were to curb “theContinue reading “Muslims target of hate crimes bill, thanks to Mark Liebler, Albanese and Dutton”
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”
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