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Part 2…What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Like the chameleon that changes its colours to match its surroundings, Labor has come up with a budget recovery and growth plan, a 10-year one, just like the Coalition. It’s so late in the campaign it looks like an afterthought, coincidentally promising to achieve a...
Anti-establishment Trump a voice for the West’s silent majority
A brilliant column by Maurice Newman. He nails the zeitgeist not only in the US, Europe and the U.K. but here in Australia and those at the centre of it.
“..In Australia, these good people have engineered the abridgement of free speech, promoted big government, championed taxpayer protection for failing and favoured industries, dismantled border protection, pushed climate change policies at serious cost to the poor, overseen Marxist indoctrination in schools and lavished unsustainable benefits on pet projects. Even the military has been captured by “progressive” ideals..”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
We have the ludicrous situation that teachers use the classroom as a pulpit for inducting students into their political and social ideologies — sometimes with the mandate of state and federal curriculum authorities — yet cry breach of ethics if anyone tries to teach those kids Christianity.
A blue ribbon seat doesn’t equate to blue ribbon service.
This is a metaphor for the political inertia and torpor that comes with being a blue ribbon seat. The Wakehurst floods quite regularly, probably once or twice a month and would simply not be tolerated if Mackellar was more marginal. Last weekend during the big storm...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)
As an erstwhile Coalition supporter and economic rationalist, I am sure I am not alone in feeling disenfranchised at the coming election. Malcolm Turnbull seems unwilling to campaign on obvious Coalition strengths such as border security, national security,...
Low hanging fruit. There’s nothing a tax won’t fix.
Canberra residents will become the first in the nation to pay a domestic violence tax, after the ACT government announced it would levy households $30 a year to fund an “unprecedented” $21.4 million reform package. Unveiling the Safer Families program as the...
Much as alchemists once dreamed of turning base metal into gold, so today’s social policy planners are bewitched by the notion that, with enough government money, every child can be made to sparkle.
It’s Morning In Mackellar
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
If Malcolm Turnbull wants to hang on to Coalition seats in Queensland he must get stuck into union thuggery. It might come as a shock to the PM, but most voters in Queensland don’t care a fig about how wonderful his father was when CFMEU workers are enjoying extra...
Trump vs. Hillary – Two Surprising Views; Is Trump getting Romnified?
Check out this picture. Its not rocket science. It highlights the problem that the elites caused and they ignore at their peril. Now do you think they understand and "get" the Trump phenomenon? This goes back to the last two years of the Bill Clinton presidency. So...