Only some women allowed to speak their truth
Don’t expect the feminist warriors who pretend to care about the treatment of women to condemn Dan Andrews, despite a Labor MP paying a terrible price for taking a brave stand.
Rita Panahi
Dan’s pathetic puppets plumb new depths
Three cowardly crossbenchers have shown they are nothing more than Labor stooges by voting against transparency and accountability.
Most anti-business leader determined to keep control
Instead of focusing on getting the state moving again, Daniel Andrews is fixated on illiberal restrictions, and his latest betrayal will crush businesses.
Stupidly woke Cummins engineers Langer’s downfall
The activist captain was happy to spout nonsense about global warming but would not utter a word of support for his coach.
Truth finally emerges on irrational lockdowns
After two years of unbridled irrationality and panic, study after study shows that lockdowns now represent the greatest public policy disaster in living memory.
Text ‘scandal’ proves Canberra Press Gallery out of touch
The text “scandal” involving the PM, Gladys Berejiklian and a government minister is just another example of manufactured outrage created by the media for the media.
Business leaders must do more to end Covid lunacy
It was refreshing to hear business leaders pushback against WA’s Covid lunacy, but much more is needed to pressure governments to act proportionately.
Harry and Meghan’s lies are the real misinformation crisis
If Harry and Meghan really want to tackle misinformation they should start by cancelling themselves, not Spotify, for the countless lies they’ve told.
Short-sighted surgery ban will create more hardship
The Dan Andrews government’s decision to cancel elective surgery is creating a new health crisis that experts say will be felt for years to come.
Spotify’s response to Neil Young a case of instant karma
There is something decidedly delicious about Neil Young attempting to cancel Joe Rogan and ending up cancelling himself.
China cash aces human rights for Tennis Australia
The sinister decision to target tennis fans wearing T-shirts in support of Chinese player Peng Shuai is a new low for Tennis Australia.
Bogut gag attempt shows VEC’s sinister overreach
The VEC’s sinister attempt to gag Andrew Bogut is the kind of dangerous overreach you would expect to see in a despotic hellhole, not Victoria.
IVF backflip proves we can demand end to lunacy
The Andrews government’s backflip on the cancellation of IVF treatments illustrates that Covid-induced lunacy will only come to an end when we demand it does.
Covid fear distorting Australians’ perspective
We have among the highest vaccination rates in the world and yet appear incapable of learning to live with a virus we all know will be endemic.
Get the hell out of our lives
The deal was that politicians would end draconian Covid rules when we joined the world’s most vaccinated countries. We lived up to our end of the bargain — it’s time they did the same.
Why Victorians should avoid Qld like the plague
Even now that Queensland’s borders are open to Victorians we are treated like disease-riddled second class citizens. This is why your holiday dollars are better spent elsewhere.
Test debacle instant karma for WA isolationists
If WA wants to be its own country and lock out the rest of Australia then it can forget about sympathy for losing its Ashes Test match.
Covid travel permit cruelty is Dan’s disgrace
Thousands of Victorians who had done nothing wrong suffered terrible hardship so Dan Andrews could pursue his Covid-zero fantasy — and it did nothing to keep Victoria safe.
Why Dan Andrews should follow NSW’s lead, again
It’s time for Dan Andrews to put aside his ego and acknowledge that NSW has got it right again and ditch the vaccine passports.
Alan Tudge and Tim Paine punished by puritans
The outcry over former education minister Alan Tudge and former Australian test captain Tim Paine reveals the rise of a new puritanical age.
Lily-livered IOC, world leaders must boycott China
The cowardly IOC should follow the WTA’s lead and take a stand against China and every nation should seriously consider boycotting the hostile totalitarian state.
Weakest link gives Dan his way
Crossbench MPs opposing the pandemic Bill have learnt you’re only as strong as your weakest link. Now voters should learn to be more careful in who they choose to represent them.
Covid catastrophists’ demented Omicron reaction
The Covid catastrophists have wasted no time ramping up the Omicron alarmism, and sadly, there are indications our governments will be spooked into imposing restrictions.
Dan’s jab mandate ignores best health advice
Daniel Andrews is belligerently sticking to a vaccine mandate policy that achieves little good, causes societal harm and is a massive inconvenience for businesses.
We must resist mandated jabs for young kids
Covid-19 is a virus of little consequence to healthy children so mandating they be vaccinated is absurd and against expert advice.
Andrews’ shameful scaremongering on hospitals
Australia will remain a prison island until we change our mindset on living with Covid and stop rubbish claims hospitals will be overrun.
Hurting kids in the name of public safety
As the lockdown cycle continues, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to rationalise the harm being inflicted on youngsters in the name of public safety.
Experts split on Covid jabs for kids
Children shouldn’t be included in the vaccination targets needed to re-open the country with even the experts divided on the issue.
Warnie proves elimination strategy a wrong’un
Shane Warne’s Covid-19 diagnosis is a lesson in why vaccination works and we can learn to live with the virus, not stamp it out.
Political elite’s profoundly stupid moment
Just when you thought they couldn’t say anything sillier, these three moments from the political elite show Covid lunacy is still running rampant.
Protest exposes BLM double standards
Anti-lockdown rallies have shown the disturbing trend for authorities to selectively apply the law, depending on your cause.
National cabinet holding the country back
Our PM must show courage on AstraZeneca and challenge the premiers over lockdowns instead of taking the path of least resistance.
The state trying to out-crazy Victoria’s lockdown
The states seem determined to out-do each other on draconian lockdown rules but one has raced to the lead, even above Victoria.
Major pandemic hurdle Australia is yet to face
Australia’s bungled pandemic roadmap means we still haven’t broached an issue the UK and US have spent months debating.
Andrews must stop listening to catastrophist CHO
Victorian schoolchildren have paid a heavy price in the name of Covid safety so it’s time we listen to health advice from someone other than Brett Sutton.
Overseas reopenings show flaw in Gladys’ Delta response
The NSW premier’s claims the Delta variant is a “game-changer” has not been the experience of countries reopening without being close to the vaccination thresholds Australia aims for.
Grim Reaper Covid-19 ad feeding on fear
Reason and optimism have been sidelined in favour of whipping up hysteria in the federal government’s new vaccine advertisement.
Cruel, pointless decisions can no longer be defended
A portion of our community seems to have lost all sense and compassion in this pandemic, while cruel decisions made by health bureaucrats are applauded for “the greater good”.
We’ll rue the day we followed China’s lockdown lead
We will look back on this pandemic and wonder why so many sophisticated nations ditched common sense and followed China’s lead.
We must live with Covid, not stamp it out
The Covid eradication strategy was ruinous and even its biggest hysteric, Daniel Andrews, now seems to agree.
We must re-join the world — or be left behind
The rest of the developed world is returning to normal. So when will Australia drop its foolhardy prison island mentality?
Victoria has become the ‘place to flee’
Victoria used to be the “place to be”, now people are leaving the lockdown capital in droves because of the government’s wanton devastation of livelihoods and liberties.
Sutton’s Canberra jaunt just one more act of hypocrisy
How could the chief health officer of a state devastated by Covid and heavy-handed lockdowns feel entitled to go interstate while forcing millions of Victorians to obey a travel limit?
Palaszczuk’s Covid decisions lack logic and humanity
Queensland doesn’t have the destruction that the Victorian government notched up but they too have behaved irrationally, often cruelly, during the crisis.
Victoria’s health officials living in clown world
Our health bureaucrats’ latest absurd ski field directive proves they are divorced from the real world and the grave consequences of their laughable decisions.
Time for leaders to treat us like adults
Political leaders must start treating us like adults who can make decisions regarding our own welfare.
Medical advice behind daft restrictions must be released
If the Andrews Government is going to inflict draconian measures on millions of Victorians we at least deserve to see the so-called “best medical advice”.
Corporate world’s pandering to cancel culture wildly hypocritical
The new woke religion that the sporting and corporate world subscribe to is unforgiving, brutal and is doing nothing to make the world more inclusive.
Dud health advice is destroying Victoria
Brett Sutton and Jeroen Weimar seem to be competing at who can scare us more, but they need to cut the hysteria and stick to the facts.
Covid health advice a total balls-up
From bizarre ball tips for footy fans to an Anzac Day flyover ban, our unelected health bureaucrats have offered up some truly absurd Covid advice.
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