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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Sound Advice for Amorous Swains
One of the things that seems to have been killed off in today’s woke world is the art of seduction. Forget the theme songs of the many Hollywood movies that entertained teenagers and their parents in the ‘50’s and ‘60s such as Bing Crosby crooning to a wavering Doris Day, “Baby it’s Cold Outside” or Doris returning mixed but encouraging messages in her “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps…” The implicit message: Maybe. Convince me…
Things got a bit more heated by the Eighties when AC/DC belted out “She Shook Me All Night Long” and Joe Cocker followed that up with the equally explicit “You Can Leave Your Hat On … (yes, yes, yes )…”
These days No means No, right? Well maybe not if you’re a Labor state government keen to ignore the overwhelming “No bloody way” rejection by 61 per cent of the voting population to the divisive Voice referendum. No, they’ll ignore the electorate’s veto and pursue their goal by other means (but with the same…
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Justice’s legal analysis is superficially plausible but, nevertheless, the judgment is woefully woke. This is because the law, even if it were argued that the Court correctly applied the law, is incompatible with the biological fact that there are two sexes.
Sep 01 2024
14 mins
You can imagine my surprise when I recently became aware, courtesy of my cousin Paul, of the letter below, addressed to Mr J.A, Farquar, Commissioner of the South Australian Railways.
Aug 31 2024
2 mins
