Bolt: Trump is spitting in the face of a friend
We now see Donald Trump’s plan to Make America Great Again can mean Make Australia Poorer, or more in China’s grip.
We now see Donald Trump’s plan to Make America Great Again can mean Make Australia Poorer, or more in China’s grip.
US President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs will hurt Australia but — for once — the old parents’ line “this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you” is actually true.
Getting Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire — by shamelessly bashing the victim – was the easy bit. Donald Trump will now learn whether he’s been duped by Russia’s president, the war criminal Vladimir Putin.
The Prime Minister and the other climate catastrophists are once again – Covid style – using climate “emergencies” to belt voters and businesses.
Anthony Albanese is the first Australian Prime Minister to be praised by Hamas and damned by Israel — it’s clear he’s picked the wrong side.
Hamas boss Yahya Sinwar foolishly ordered his terrorists to invade Israel from Gaza and kill and kidnap Jews on October 7. 14 months later, Hamas is virtually destroyed and Sinwar himself, dead.
Australia has entrusted our economy to a PM, Treasurer and Energy Minister whose private sector experience between them amounted to eight weeks at a McDonald’s and an after-school stint at a bank. Now there’s wreckage everywhere you look.
After South Korea’s embattled president suddenly declared martial law, the country’s democracy was saved by social media — so why are many of our own politicians so hostile to it?
The Left is losing the big arguments. It’s got too loopy to defend the core beliefs of its identity with facts and reason, and we’re now getting too poor and divided to tolerate its nonsense.
The world-first ban on children under 16 using social media demands tech companies take “reasonable steps”. But who decides what’s “reasonable” and when to prosecute?
Chris Bowen boasted on Wednesday the Albanese government was “on track” to slash our emissions by 42.6 per cent by 2035, but journalists failed to ask the minister two obvious questions.
The ABC has always been on the side of division, and now its chairman says it needs more of our money to encourage “patriotism”.
At least Gough Whitlam could boast that, for all his incompetence, he brought in big reforms such as Medibank. This government is destroying our wealth, threatening our freedoms, insulting our allies and dividing our people.
The Victorian government refuses to say what it’s ready to give away as it negotiates the first state treaty with people claiming to be Aboriginal.
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