New Catallaxy

  • Jeff Grimshaw, NotKean for Hornsby

    Support Jeff Grimshaw, taking on the Green Blob Matt Kean for the seat of Hornsby in the NSW election. As the east coast of Australia stares down the barrel of blackouts and brown outs, with an electricity grid on the verge of imploding, the NSW Government continues to charge towards the precipice of an energy disaster.…

  • Open Thread – Tue 14 March 2023

    Extreme Unction, Nicolas Poussin, 1646

  • Despicable or Disastrous. That’s the choice

    It’s never been about the Marxist thugs on the left. The Daniel Andrews types. It’s always been about the growing number of rats on the right. The rats have taken over. So now it’s take your pick between the awful and bloody awful. Not giving up, but it’s time to be realistic. Nothing is in…

  • A few racy things

    The Voice within. Meet NIAA The Voice that we didn’t know about. Now we know, thanks to Rowan Dean. This is the National Indigenous Australians Agency. Your taxes at work! According to the NIAA’s annual report, last year Jody and her team spent nearly 290 million dollars on expenses. That’s a lot of dosh, so…

  • Rafe’s Roundup 13 March

    Drop in and see what is going on The Energy Realists   Jo Nova  Quadrant on line IPA Climate and energy program   CIS          The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre   Mannkal Foundation           Advance Australia   Taxpayers  Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond  The Rathouse Rafe’s Readers If you want to buy from the reading list, be sure to…

  • Evil, lunacy, stupidity. Take your pick

    This is the BBC News today (11 march), commenting on the tragic shootings in Hamburg: “Seven people, including an unborn baby, were killed in Thursday’s attack which unfolded at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the city.” An unborn baby killed. What do you make of that? An unborn baby. A contradiction in terms, surely.…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 11 March 2023

    The Carrousel – Autumn Morning, Camille Pissarro, 1899

  • ‘No Vaccine Mandates?’ – Pull the other one.

    This week, former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, in the jargon of the media, sat down with Sky News journalist, Sharri Markson. Though the interview covered a range of subjects, there was only one area that interested me: vaccine mandates. In the interview, Morrison asserted that he and his Government never supported widespread vaccine mandates. Neither,…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #61

    They call me Mr. Tibbs ! Was the defiant response by Sidney Poitier’s character policeman Virgil Tibbs to the aggressive and racist police chief of Sparta, Mississippi, Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger in his Oscar winning Best Actor role) in the timeless mystery drama classic In The Heat Of The Night released in 1967 and directed…

  • Open Thread – Tues 7 March 2023

    New York Movie, Edward Hopper, 1939

  1. Amusingly, to me at least, the Coles under HQ in Tooronga – for non Melbourne people Tooronga is sort of…

  2. News out of left field: The ethnic Arab mayor of the US’s only Muslim majority city, Hamtramck MI (greater Detroit),…

  4. I remember that ad. They should have been forced to explain themselves to us on live TV, with an audience…

  5. No payment to the maaaates fund? More than a thousand e-scooters were packed up and transported out of Melbourne’s CBD…

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