To the first Europeans to arrive here, everything about Australia seemed upside-down and paradoxical. To many, Australian politics still seems the same. Our conservatives are "Liberals", and our "Labor" party are all wealthy professionals. Here's a rough guide to the upside-down politics of Australia ...Do read on ...
Racism: It's all the Left have left. A Devil's Curmudgeon. The American left are currently cock-a-whoop that lynching has finally been made a Federal crime, linking the passage of the bill directly to the murder of Emmett Till. Which begs the question: why pass a statute for a crime that hasn’t been reported for nigh …
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"Why is it always you three?" In the Harry Potter mythos, “the Golden Trio” has become the fan sobriquet for the stories’ central protagonists: Harry, Hermione and Ron. Somewhat appropriately, given their loud-mouthed social justice warrior author, the Golden Trio have acquired real-life counterparts in the world of SJW politics. Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern and …
Another old one. The Sydney “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” was celebrated as a platform to spout such dangerous, “offensive, obnoxious, fearsome, dangerously stupid” ideas as “Israel is an Apartheid State”, “Genital Cutting is Normal”, or even that “Honour Killings are Justified”. One thing that was immediately obvious was that FODI’s roster was heavily weighted to …
This was first published in late August 2018, in the immediate aftermath of the leadership challenges that brought down Malcolm Turnbull. So, what really happened in Australia last week? Well, a whole lot of politicians and journalists got excited, there was plenty of grouching on social media, but, really, not much else. Life in Australia …
Recently, three high-profile Twitter users have been pilloried in the court of digital opinion. Two made crass jokes, the other vomited years of racist abuse. While the jokers found their careers abruptly aborted, the racist has been promoted to the pinnacle of her career.
Originally published at Incite.
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The left have taken to invoking a literal footnote from Popper's Open Society, to try and justify their addiction to fascist violence. But they completely misunderstand Popper, who would have tolerated the alt-right, much as he disliked them. On the other hand, he would have condemned Antifa as criminals.
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Our culture loves to invoke certain recently-deceased as fetish objects in service to some cultural or political cause célèbre. Safely unable to speak for themselves, the dead become a sort of macabre rhetorical soapbox for the obsessions of cynical politicians and activists.
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Murals and "street art" are usually pretty dismal stuff. But a new mural depicting Labor leader Bill Shorten as a two-faced snake-oil salesman manages to be better than most.
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Australia has long been a markedly secular nation, but over the past century one day of the year has become as close as this secular country has to a national holy day. Naturally, in their rage against the west, the Cultural Marxist left are determined to destroy it.
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