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Splat
Afghanistan exit: ‘This is a terrible decision — it will be a disaster’. Afghan Association of Australia chairman Abdul Khaliq Fazal said the decision would lead to civil war, meaning the sacrifice of Australian troops could be wasted… Why would … Continue reading
Posted in History, War and peace
49 Comments
Victoria Police: not only corrupt but lazy and incompetent
Just ask Dr Prasannan Ponganamparambile.
Posted in Rule of law
55 Comments
Tele subs depth-charged over she-cheeks to the wind
Murdoch’s dinosaur editors importing the worst of British tabloid sexism in the Telegraph. No matter what you think of the Navy’s decision to book a hip-hop troupe, it’s not their fault. These women don’t deserve to be made the object of … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and morality
40 Comments
Andrew Peacock, 1939-2021
How strange that I should have mentioned him in a post yesterday. I always liked him.
Posted in History, Politics
30 Comments
The Staggering Return of Mickey Finn
LAST month – without any evidence – the ABC presented the misadventures of Katie and Kylie as proof-positive of a drink-spiking epidemic. The revival of this zombie urban myth isn’t surprising given the misandrist hysteria being theatrically stoked on a … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and morality, Fake News, Politics of the Left
44 Comments
Daunte’s Inferno
The BBC: Daunte Wright: ‘One of those kids everybody looked up to’. Women also looked up to good old Daunte – especially this woman: ‘Victim was able to get loose from defendant Wright and started to kneel down and scream.’ … Continue reading
Posted in American politics
110 Comments
Tanks But No Tanks
In the right, Christine Holgate pulls the wrong rein WERE the posh gifts for hugely well-paid Australia Post staff more trivial than Andrew Peacock’s Sheridan sheets or Mick Young’s Paddington Bear or Barry O’Farrell’s bottle of plonk? Bullied for being … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and morality, Fake News, Federal Politics
30 Comments
It was the Christians
An ABC investigation relating to Victoria’s COVID catastrophe has put the blame where it belongs.
Posted in Media, Politics of the Left
14 Comments
Science versus emotion
Seven Peer-Reviewed Studies That Agree: Lockdowns Do Not Suppress the Coronavirus. The idea that locking down and keeping people apart will stop a virus spreading may be seductively intuitive. But intuitive ideas can be wrong. The job of science is … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, International
35 Comments
Bring a ute: “And they are really going to come for me now”
CHANNEL Nine has tried to pull off one of those in-house builder’s bog PR patch-ups for Weakest Link host Magda Szubanski following her lightly criticised attack on Jenny Morrison. Instead, she went even more berserk. She now claims Mrs Morrison … Continue reading
Posted in Politics of the Left
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