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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Time to speak up, John and Tony
When team players need to break the vow of silence James Allan Getty Images James Allan 7 June 2025 9:00 AM What qualities make someone a good team player? In sports we all have a pretty good idea: in public, a good team player always supports his or her coach and teammates. If you thinkContinue reading “Time to speak up, John and Tony”
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”
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”
Features Australia
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”
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”
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 Christian communities of Syria are under siege.
The Christian communities of Syria are under siege. Since the US-backed overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, the country’s fragile religious minorities—particularly Christians and Alawites—have faced a wave of persecution at the hands of Islamist forces. The fall of Assad was not a victory for freedom, as Western leaders and their media mouthpiecesContinue reading “The Christian communities of Syria are under siege.”
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”
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”
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”
PM still doesn’t get ‘international order’ has changed under Trump
Greg Sheridan The Australian February 11, 2025 A radical, epoch-marking change has occurred in the international system of which Australia is a part. A failure to understand this change, even to see it, by the Albanese government, and by much of the wider society, is contributing to Australia’s inability to pursue its national interests effectively.Continue reading “PM still doesn’t get ‘international order’ has changed under Trump”
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’”
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’”
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”
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