On December 21, 2017, an Afghan refugee and recently sworn Australian citizen, Saed Noori, drove his mother’s SUV at breakneck speed along Flinders Street in Melbourne’s CBD, skittling pedestrians and leaving one dead and 18 in hospital. At the time, the voice of officialdom proclaimed quickly and insistently that the terrible event was not “terrorism-related”. […]

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The Australian reports: The lobbying firm of NSW Liberal powerbroker Michael Photios (above) has started donating to the Labor Party, in an apparent nod towards the likelihood of Bill Shorten taking up residence in The Lodge. Mr Photios confirmed yesterday that his firm, Premier State, had for the first time joined the Federal Labor Business […]

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Australians are blessed that the Bureau of Meteorology is so very good at predicting temperatures 100 years hence, not one of which has yet been proved wrong. In the shorter term, however, climatic divination could use some improvement. Above, the BoM’s nationwide rainfall as anticipated by the BoM’s modellers and computers on January 26. For […]

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Some 18,000 barrackers turned up at Kardinia Park in Geelong on the weekend to witness the contest between Collingwood’s lady footballers, who boast fewer tattoos than their club’s male colleagues, and the Geelong Cats. As games go — no sexism here — it wasn’t a bad spectacle, the result decided by a single point. Unlike […]

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Viv Forbes of the Saltbush Club writes: Water conservation peaked in Australia in 1972 – our last big dam was Wivenhoe in Queensland built 35 years ago. Elsewhere in Australia, water conservation virtually stopped when Don Dunstan halted the building of Chowilla Dam on the Murray in 1970 and Bob Brown’s Greens halted the Franklin […]

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Richard Fernandez is a prolific blogger and always worth reading. His latest post, which seeks to understand why manic and parnoid Left is spotting “Nazis” here, there and all over the shop, is no exception. A taste: … Now there are racists and Nazis everywhere. They lie in wait on freezing streets ready to victimize […]

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A recent title from Ms Adler’s Melbourne University Press. Others can be viewed here. It cannot be just a coincidence that so many — indeed, almost all — carry the bylines of the Left’s leading stalwarts. Before The Australian did columnist Jack the Insider, aka Peter Hoysted, a huge favour by bringing to an abrupt […]

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Melbourne University Press, proud publisher of Mick Gatto’s memoirs and much other recent pulp, has been in the news of late, following what has been widely described as the “resignation” of chief executive Louise Adler and a board whose members included Gillian Triggs and Bob Carr. The Left works on the theory that, once it […]

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When Malcolm Turnbull finally fulfilled his life’s destiny to become prime minister, pollster Mark Textor dismissed malcontents by saying their votes and support were of no consequence: “The qualitative evidence is they don’t matter. The sum of a more centrist approach outweighs any alleged marginal loss of so-called base voters.” Today, the latest Prime Minister […]

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The Daily Telegraph reports today (paywalled): But after writing the opinion piece and speaking on Studio 10 in support of Kennerley, Ms Price was inundated with vile messages from men attacking her on Facebook using violent and misogynistic language. It will be interesting to see if police take action, as they did several years ago […]

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