The Victorian government is proposing to decriminalise begging as an offence, but is this benevolence or perhaps something else more covert?
The change is meant to stop the long arm of the law from snapping a set of cuffs on a beggar and sending them to the slammer for 12 months.
But what if it is something else lies behind this ‘benevolence’ that no ...
Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the money with her roasting of Andrew Hastie and Anthony Albanese.
And then there is our money that is tied up in ...
This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical.
With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election ever, no amount of ‘NFL hoopla’ can mask the underlying truth that Victoria is headed for the rubbish heap of history unless the cancer that is the Labor government is excised.
Woke, broke, ridiculed – no other words better describe ...
Sydney’s working class look hungry.
By that I mean, they are getting noticeably thinner.
My advice to the political class is to disembark the Commonwealth car and take a trip on public transport through the CBD. A bus. A train. A tram. Something that puts you on the pavement with ordinary people. Have a really long look at the mannerisms of those who ...
There’s a quote I remember from my Sunday School days that has been brought to mind by this week’s news headlines and political hit jobs: ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’
Those words were spoken by Jesus when Scribes and Pharisees brought a woman accused of adultery to him. With a crowd gathering, they asked if she should be stoned ...
How refreshing to hear a man in power call out the bias baked into our institutions against men. Let alone the ‘ideological bullshit’ (his words) used to shut down proper action on male suicide.
Australia’s political class has suddenly discovered that men exist, and new spokesmen are popping up everywhere.
There’s one standout in the pack: Llew ...
I must return, regrettably, to the subject of the Church of England. Readers with long memories may recall the year of our Lord 2024. In -February of that year, the people who are meant to care for Canterbury Cathedral allowed a ‘silent disco’ to take place over two nights in the place where St Thomas à Becket was -martyred. Two thousand revellers ...
Secret Harbour was Labor’s not-so-secret nightmare: a seat it had held since 1989 fell in a landslide to One Nation, which had polled just 8.5 per cent there at the previous election.
Pollsters said voters felt taken for granted and were worried about the housing shortage, high migration and the high cost of living, but the Prime Minister wasn’t having ...
Two unclued lights provide a position and a location (three words). Another entry indicates what happened to the seven unclued holders of the position, to be entered thematically.
Across
11 Syrup medicine adult ingests initially, overcome by affliction (10)
13 Insure bad developing made town-like (9)
16 Measure between sets of factories – ...
On Tuesday, the Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, noted that the government is devoting an extra £250 million this year to enhance the security of Britain’s Jewish community. He did so in the context of a statement about British foreign policy and efforts to advance a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. Mr Miliband is many things, but he is not ...
They were both films that stay in the mind from a lifetime ago. Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie’s contribution to the mythology of the world. Some of the greatest actors had a go during the pantomime season at the role of Captain Hook but the version that took the world by storm was the Disney one – with songs like ‘Never Smile at a Crocodile’ – of this saga ...
The socioeconomic duty (SED) might not sound sexy but bear with me: this is the tool the Labour party plans to use to ramp up its attack on the middle classes. The SED was described by its Labour ministerial creators in 2009 as ‘socialism in one clause’. It would, they promised, create ‘a new social order’. It was also described as Harman’s Law after ...
The Victorian government is proposing to decriminalise begging as an offence, but is this benevolence or perhaps something else more covert?
The change is meant to stop the long arm of the law from snapping a set of cuffs on a beggar and sending them to the slammer for 12 months.
But what if it is something else lies behind this ‘benevolence’ that no ...
Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the money with her roasting of Andrew Hastie and Anthony Albanese.
And then there is our money that is tied up in ...
This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical.
With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election ever, no amount of ‘NFL hoopla’ can mask the underlying truth that Victoria is headed for the rubbish heap of history unless the cancer that is the Labor government is excised.
Woke, broke, ridiculed – no other words better describe ...
Sydney’s working class look hungry.
By that I mean, they are getting noticeably thinner.
My advice to the political class is to disembark the Commonwealth car and take a trip on public transport through the CBD. A bus. A train. A tram. Something that puts you on the pavement with ordinary people. Have a really long look at the mannerisms of those who ...
There’s a quote I remember from my Sunday School days that has been brought to mind by this week’s news headlines and political hit jobs: ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’
Those words were spoken by Jesus when Scribes and Pharisees brought a woman accused of adultery to him. With a crowd gathering, they asked if she should be stoned ...
How refreshing to hear a man in power call out the bias baked into our institutions against men. Let alone the ‘ideological bullshit’ (his words) used to shut down proper action on male suicide.
Australia’s political class has suddenly discovered that men exist, and new spokesmen are popping up everywhere.
There’s one standout in the pack: Llew ...
I must return, regrettably, to the subject of the Church of England. Readers with long memories may recall the year of our Lord 2024. In -February of that year, the people who are meant to care for Canterbury Cathedral allowed a ‘silent disco’ to take place over two nights in the place where St Thomas à Becket was -martyred. Two thousand revellers ...
Secret Harbour was Labor’s not-so-secret nightmare: a seat it had held since 1989 fell in a landslide to One Nation, which had polled just 8.5 per cent there at the previous election.
Pollsters said voters felt taken for granted and were worried about the housing shortage, high migration and the high cost of living, but the Prime Minister wasn’t having ...
Two unclued lights provide a position and a location (three words). Another entry indicates what happened to the seven unclued holders of the position, to be entered thematically.
Across
11 Syrup medicine adult ingests initially, overcome by affliction (10)
13 Insure bad developing made town-like (9)
16 Measure between sets of factories – ...
On Tuesday, the Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, noted that the government is devoting an extra £250 million this year to enhance the security of Britain’s Jewish community. He did so in the context of a statement about British foreign policy and efforts to advance a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. Mr Miliband is many things, but he is not ...
They were both films that stay in the mind from a lifetime ago. Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie’s contribution to the mythology of the world. Some of the greatest actors had a go during the pantomime season at the role of Captain Hook but the version that took the world by storm was the Disney one – with songs like ‘Never Smile at a Crocodile’ – of this saga ...
The socioeconomic duty (SED) might not sound sexy but bear with me: this is the tool the Labour party plans to use to ramp up its attack on the middle classes. The SED was described by its Labour ministerial creators in 2009 as ‘socialism in one clause’. It would, they promised, create ‘a new social order’. It was also described as Harman’s Law after ...
