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Bill Leak — 2014 and way ahead of his time
Forget the candles, values are on the line — Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian
Something bad is going on that requires more than a candle and talk of solidarity. The truth is that across the West, fewer and fewer people show support for our values. Our solidarity is more shallow and momentary than deep and enduring. For all the declarations about the strength of our democracy, there is a growing disagreement about these core values. Not just the normal wrangle over the friction between “rights” that we deal with daily but a growing cacophony of deep dissent about the very worth of some rights.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (Part 2)
Yet again we read of Christians who are forced to take evasive action to avoid abuse and threats by those activists who support same-sex marriage. When the debate about a plebiscite began we were warned by Labor frontbencher Penny Wong that hate speech from those who opposed SSM would rise to the fore. Well the opposite has occurred and Wong’s silence is remarkable. She should publicly admit that on this occasion she got it wrong.
What Thinking Australian Are Thinking
Prior to reading the interview with new ABC chairman Justin Milne (27/3), I was under the misapprehension that our national broadcaster was operating in a green-left echo chamber and that its broadcasts were biased. Now he has pointed out my mistake, I share his view that it is actually doing a good job and that it reports the news right down the middle. I realise that in perceiving bias I was guilty of old-think and probably thought crime, simply because I had not mastered the art of double-think. However, now I understand how to interpret the world correctly, and can see that war is peace, ignorance is strength, and subjectivity is objectivity. It is therefore clear that bias at the ABC is impossible.
Australian Muslim leader calls for murder during Bankstown Hizb ut-Tahrir meeting.
We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto. This is in Sydney, last Saturday night. Check the actual video half way down the page. “….A leader of a hard-line Islamist group which campaigns for sharia law says Muslims who leave the religion should be put to death…”
Better Late Than Never — Next year the meme will feature The Peoples Republic of Victoria
The Only Staggering Stat You Need To Know
In amongst all the numbers and percentages in Tony Shepherds report for The Menzies Research Centre, the one standout, staggering stat, the only thing we really need to know is this: More than 50% of Australians pay no net tax.
That is, whatever tax they do pay, is eclipsed by what they receive in benefits. In all the blather about sustainability in recent years, this is the standout and if doesn’t make Australians wake in fright then all hope is lost. With the government on a one seat knife edge and Labor ramping up and fine tuning their harum scarum robo calls and more concerned with identity politics, there’ll be no getting the toothpaste back in the tube any time soon.
Sexist Pre-Schoolers Targeted — The Australian
Four-year-olds who exhibit sexist behaviour at preschool are the latest targets of the Victorian government’s crusade against family violence, with early childhood educators to be taught how to eradicate gendered norms and stereotypes from the classrooms.
The Future We Cannot Afford — Nick Cater, The Australian
The Shepherd Review released yesterday confirms that government is already borrowing to pay its daily bills. The time for self-delusion is over; seven consecutive budget deficits and an eighth around the corner cannot be explained away as a mere fluctuation in the cycle. We are running out of time to make the hard choices, the ones we’ve been putting off through wilful blindness or because of populist political headwinds that so far have proved impossible to overcome.
Mark Latham Cuts Loose In The Daily Telegraph — The Lefts Division Defeats Democracy
Today’s Labor/Green orthodoxy is to turn people against each other on the basis of their gender, race and sexuality. Within the gay lobby, a militant tendency has also emerged, using boycotts and intimidatory tactics to censor anyone who disagrees with them. The group that, more than any other in Australian politics, has pleaded with people to respect “difference” has become intolerant of differing points of view. The pigs are in the farmhouse, walking upright on their hind legs