Flat White Alexandra Marshall Getty Images Alexandra Marshall 23 November 2024 7:42 PM Last week I was invited to give a speech on the escalation of government censorship for Western Heritage Australia. We were there to talk about the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, which sits dead on arrival after the Greens promised to vote itContinue reading “The generation who want to shut you up”
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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”
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?”
Yesterday’s ‘conspiracies’ are today’s facts
John Mikkelsen Politicom September 14, 2024 With new issues confronting Australia and the world each day, many would sooner forget the early COVID years and the massive political over-reach. This includes vaccine mandates, lockdowns, mental health problems, suicides and business closures which continue today. Those of us who resisted and remain unvaccinated despite the coercionContinue reading “Yesterday’s ‘conspiracies’ are today’s facts”
Groping for evidence; On the Alan Jones case
Rebecca Weisser The Spectator Australia 30, 2024 How many police officers does it take to charge an elderly and ailing man of 83 who is accused, as one complainant put it of ‘going the grope’? One? Two? Three? According to an eyewitness, around 30 police officers burst into the apartment of Alan Jones and chargedContinue reading “Groping for evidence; On the Alan Jones case”
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”
Donald Trump, Cabinet Maker
Roger Franklin Quadrant Online November 25, 2024 If November 5 was about anything it was free speech — the right, at its most basic, to call the other guy “literally Hitler” and be derided in response as “mentally defective, a halfwit”, which captures in a few words the entire home stretch of the US electionContinue reading “Donald Trump, Cabinet Maker”
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”
Supreme Court Green Lights Multi-Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta
David Lindfield Slay News November 25, 2024 The Supreme Court has given the green light for a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit to proceed against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. Facebook’s parent Meta is being sued over the massive privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. Earlier this month, the justices heard arguments in Meta’s bid to shutContinue reading “Supreme Court Green Lights Multi-Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta”
Albo might ban you from commenting on this article
David Penberty Herald Sun November 23, 2024 “Never read the comments.” It’s advice you often hear being given to prospective newspaper columnists or occasional contributors to the opinion pages about the need to brace themselves for the free-wheeling mosh pit that is unfettered feedback from the general public. It’s a sentiment with which I haveContinue reading “Albo might ban you from commenting on this article”
Alan Jones’ Crime: Being on the Right
Paul Collits Quadrant Online November 23, 2024 All this looks and feels very familiar. Déjà vu in caps. By now, everyone will know that Alan Jones, former school teacher, Wallabies coach, Malcolm Fraser speechwriter, 2GB radio star, one-time Sky News presenter (until Murdoch’s people shafted him for not being a Covid hysteric) and general right-wingerContinue reading “Alan Jones’ Crime: Being on the Right”
United Nations
UN Pact for the Future a WEF plan for authoritarian world Date: November 23, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 26 Comments Letter to the Editor First of all, I’d like to credit Cairns News for making me aware of the UN Pact for the Future. It may have taken me a month to get to it butContinue reading “United Nations”
Trump 47 is transforming what a cabinet means
sSpotnoerd536ahct1114m5g1ahi80fgi7h89c42al6a2fl521l878035294 · Ben Domenech The Spectator World 21 November 2024 The reaction in most elected Republican circles to the naming of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for the most prominent positions in his administration has ranged from the exuberant, to the somewhat skeptical, to the truly head-scratching, to, in one obvious case, outright disgust. But what’sContinue reading “Trump 47 is transforming what a cabinet means”
Greens torpedo misinformation bill as top Trump ally raises concerns
Adam Creighton and Rhiannon Down The Australian November 22, 2024 The Greens will oppose Labor’s legislation combatting online misinformation citing concerns that the bill doesn’t “actually do what it needs to do”, as one of the top Republicans in the US Congress accuses the Australian government of seeking to “censor speech worldwide”. In a finalContinue reading “Greens torpedo misinformation bill as top Trump ally raises concerns”
Presumption of Innocence? Hah!
Bettina Arndt Quadrant Online November 21, 2024 This week’s arrest of Alan Jones shows just how we have strayed from the principles of justice, with our media and police heavyweights flagrantly ignoring the rules we have in place to ensure a fair trial. This has all the earmarks of a hit job led by feministContinue reading “Presumption of Innocence? Hah!”
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.”
An open letter to senators: do not pass this MaD bill
Tony Nikolic The Spectator Australia 11 November 2024 Dear Senators, I write with a deep sense of urgency, sadness, and unwavering opposition to the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (the MaD Bill). You may not share my stance on free speech, but as an Australian patriot, deeply in love with thisContinue reading “An open letter to senators: do not pass this MaD bill”
In the US election, fakery finally got trounced by authenticity
Sean Walsh The Conservative Woman November 9, 2024 ‘I don’t know that any major news organisation has declared him to be the winner yet.’ Thus whined the wretched Jake Tapper as Trump dispensed with the usual protocols and claimed the win, outrageously, at a time convenient to him. Tapper is of the soon-to-be-extinct ‘major newsContinue reading “In the US election, fakery finally got trounced by authenticity”
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