• How Daniel Andrews became Australia’s most popular premier

    This is taken from Nick Cater’s article in today’s Oz: Victoria: From a state of emergency to a state of tyranny. Daniel Andrew’s level of incompetence is astonishing, but the high regard so many still have for this utterly stupid buffoon is more astonishing still. Here is the story as told by Nick. The Andrews…

  • Obligatory ignorance

    It is a curious thing that in the midst of a mass vaccination program of heretofore little used en masse vaccine delivery systems that OSHA adopts the following policy: This left me thinking, what does OSHA’s antipodean relation, WorkSafe Victoria, do in this respect? Does it require employers to notify WorkSafe of any adverse events…

  • They got DeSantis we got Dissemblance

    I watched part of a recent press conference of Ron DeSantis introducing Florida’s new surgeon general. “No more noble lies,” he said, speaking of Covid. Apparently, in Florida at least, people can handle the unvarnished truth. And what about ignoble lies, I thought, when thinking of Australian health authorities. On 28 October in Victoria twenty-five…

  • “There is a duty to refuse” Covid-19 vaccines

    Archbishop Vigano Denounces The Coronavirus Vaccine: ‘There Is A Duty To Refuse It’, (who is Abp Vigano?), said the following. “The Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines was issued last year in the absence of complete data on both the nature of the gene serum and its components,” Vigano writes in his letter to…

  • Guest Post: Muddy – A Village Somewhere, Kokoda

    Seventy-nine years ago on the 2nd of November, 1942, the village and aerodrome of Kokoda in the Owen Stanley mountains of Papua, was re-entered by Australian soldiers. What follows is not a campaign narrative – there are plenty of those already in existence – but a small collection of related and lesser-known facts. All have…

  • Tom Switzer guest post. Russia and China copout

    Net Zero By 2050? Don’t Plan on It Politicians promise an unrealistic transformation that would deny poor countries a chance to grow. As leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the United Nations climate-change conference, you may think the world has agreed to reduce and eventually eliminate its dependency on fossil fuels, stepping up its…

  • Leading Silks’ Open letter opposing Andrews pandemic legislation

    We are deeply concerned about the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021 (Bill). The overriding concern is that the Bill, if passed, may allow the Victorian government effectively to rule the State of Victoria by decree for the foreseeable future, without proper Parliamentary oversight or the usual checks and balances on executive…

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  3. MatrixTransform March 29, 2024 1:36 am And, if the ship was sabotaged remotely to cause the prang … As I…