Sicktoria
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The government of Premier Jacinta Allan is re-writing a slather of public-land acts with the intention of placing Crown land and state parks under Aboriginal control. The day is not far off when a High Country picnic will require 'indigenous permission' and, inevitably, a feeJuly 18, 2024
9 mins
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Victorians today pay the highest fines, penalties and taxes while coping with rapidly eroding rights, potholed roads, underfunded hospitals and public services, housing crisis, record debt, and sky rocketing energy prices. It must be Labor's idea of Utopia. And for all this the man responsible gets a golden gongJune 11, 2024
2 mins
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As of February 7 all Victorians' medical records will be the property of the state government – to be shared, discussed, disclosed by strangers to strangers -- and all this without Victorians being able to exercise any control over their own information. We are assured there are no risks, that we should trust the system and blithely accept there will be no abuses. Given Labor's history of playing fast and loose with the truth, that assurance stretches credulity beyond breaking pointDecember 10, 2023
3 mins
The latest
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Such is the Victorian Premier's suzerainity that even the most penetrating sunlight, supposedly the great disinfectant, draws no more than the public-stage equivalent of a 'get lost' shrug. Those hunched shoulders will be working overtime to dismiss the Special Investigator's report detailing why senior VicPol officers won't be answering in court for alleged criminal offences arising from the Lawyer X affair. The reason: the Office of Public Prosecution refused to act
June 21, 2023
7 mins
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John Pesutto proposes to boot yet another conservative Liberal from the party for what he seems to believe is an affection for neo-Nazis, white supremacists and ethnic separatists, apparently getting his news only from The Age and the ABC. So what is Moira Deeming all about? If there is something untoward about her beliefs, as detailed in her maiden speech to parliament, perhaps he'd like to tell the rest of us what it isMarch 20, 2023
14 mins
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Victoria's Liberals went missing while Daniel Andrews was abusing the state, its people, their rights and the economy. When they did raise empty heads above the parapet it was to alert voters that they are even more fervent believers in unreliable renewables and steeper power bills than the government itself. Can this principle-free rabble ever find the road back to relevance?December 9, 2022
5 mins
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Ex-premier Ted Baillieu, who knows a thing or two about political failure, is saying it will be at least eight years, and possibly twelve, before his Liberals can harbour any realistic hope of regaining power in Victoria. Well, yes, his and Mastthew Guy's species of Liberals, but what of a party that actually stands for something and is prepared to fight for it?November 28, 2022
7 mins
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The are worthwhile passages in Age reporter Sumeyya Ilanbey's biography of Dan Andrews, but it is what she skates over or mentions not all -- the iniquitous persecution of George Pell, for example, and the ethical corruption of VicPol brass -- that overshadow what could have been an illuminating examination of Victoria's debt-laden declineNovember 13, 2022
9 mins
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How long, I wonder, before arguments that oppose or even question the Voice to Parliament are deemed to be “culturally unsafe”? To the bill of complaint, the critics might even add that No voters are questioning someone’s right to exist or putting marginalised communities in danger. Not long, I reckon.
September 30, 2022
6 mins
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‘Planning weekday dinners’ -- a clever idea and remarkable that it hadn’t been thought of before Sustainability Victoria began taking ads in local rags to promote, well, some of the most unappetising slop since your dog tucked into its breakfast. Who comes up with this nonsense? The perpetually adolescent scolds and nannies in Premier Andrews' stickybeak public serviceJuly 14, 2022
6 mins
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Pity the Garden State's conservatives, who no longer have any mainstream party at the state level in which to invest their votes and confidence. What about state Opposition Leader Matthew Guy's Liberals, you might ask? Well the gale of denunciations directed these past few days at a fellow Liberal who opposes legal abortions is Exhibit A of many moreMay 8, 2022
9 mins
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Victoria is or should be a target-rich environment for an Opposition up to the challenge of pounding Premier Daniel Andrews and the travesties of honest government he and his cronies perpetrate on a near-daily basis. A secret 'treaty' with China, hack judges, VicPol's brazen politicisation, and now another favour for union mates. Somehow, though, no one ever lays a glove on him
March 17, 2022
4 mins
