by Jim Ball | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Death of the West\, decline of the west and democracy, Deomocracy, Maurice Newman, The West |
It doesn’t get any better than this as Maurice Newman holds the institutions of both political parties, crony capitalism, the power of trade unions proportionate “to their dwindling numbers” and GetUp, up to the light. The one category that doesn’t get a mention that...
by Jim Ball | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Elites, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes |
Reading Graeme Richardson’s column in the Oz, Things Grim for Most in the West in tandem with both the excellent Maurice Newman and Henry Ergas columns on the same op-ed page, it strikes me that what lifetime professional political players and lobbiests like Richo...
by Jim Ball | Jan 17, 2019 | Aboriginals, Aborigines, Australia Day, Blog, Random Notes |
The Greens with their cynical and shallow virtue signalling are as predictable as ever with their perennial guilt trip and call for moving Australia Day, citing the equally perennial and tedious meme of dispossession, theft, “ongoing genocide” and “slaughter”. There...
by Jim Ball | Jan 11, 2019 | Blog, Democrats, Immigration, Immigration, Random Notes, Uncategorised |
The reason why what is going on in the US with Donald Trump and the southern border wall is important for Australia is because it’s the very same mindset at work in Labor and The Greens and I suspect elements of the Liberals Party. For some while I’ve been hammering...
by Jim Ball | Jan 11, 2019 | Blog, Random Notes, Refugees, United Nations |
The hypocrisy of the misty eyed luvvies of the human rights, refugee and feminist lobby and parts of the media seriously suck the oxygen out of the room. In a case of a Paul Hogen-esque “that’s not a knife, this is a knife” scenario, we hear a great deal these days...
by Jim Ball | Jan 4, 2019 | Barnaby Joyce, Blog, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, National Party |
When, you read this and I suggest you do, you may well wonder, like me: what the hell is Barnaby Joyce doing on the back bench? I often rework Trotsky line on war: ‘You may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you’ and in that respect this...
