Where are the promised ICU beds, Dan?
Daniel Andrews remains bullish through every failure, this time he seems to have amnesia about 4000 intensive care beds he promised.
Rita Panahi
Dan has no shame after locking Victorians out of their state
Victorians stranded for months in caravan parks on the NSW border can at last come home — but the unnecessary hardships they’ve endured should shame the Andrews government.
Victoria a state in deep crisis
These are dark days for Premier Daniel Andrews, for he owns every level of the disaster befalling Victoria.
Old CFMEU mates no longer stand with Dan
The wild protest at CFMEU headquarters shows Dan Andrews has lost control of the Covid narrative as well as some of his most ardent supporters.
Dan delivers a roadmap to misery
The slavish adherence to health advice that is never released and modelling that has been wildly wrong sees Australia isolated and trapped in a Covid hellscape of its own making.
Waleed Aly finally gets it right
Waleed Aly has emerged from his leftist fog to see the nonsense in politicians relinquishing their power to health bureaucrats.
Children must not be lumped with vax burden
Children have already paid too high a price in this pandemic, it’s incumbent on adults to protect themselves, not put that burden on kids.
Vic case numbers prove Dan’s team got it wrong
Daniel Andrews openly mocked NSW’s rapidly rising case numbers but Victoria’s own shock infection rate makes the Premier and his team look foolish.
Dan’s tantrum just another political stunt
Victorians are sick of the Premier’s relentless politicking and scaremongering. The blame-shifting needs to stop.
Libs need to show real fight against Dan
The Liberal Party cannot rely on Dan’s shambolic pandemic response to secure the election; they need to be ready to give Victorians a real choice.
Chief psych must reveal his advice to Dan
The chief psychiatrist finally fronted the media to dish up empty platitudes. But where was he when ludicrous playground bans were touted?
‘Coincidences’ behind Dan’s Covid backflip
Playgrounds are dangerous, potential superspreader sites one week, and Covid-safe the next. That’s some wacky science.
Only frightened minority still backs restrictions
Lockdowns have never been a cure for Covid but merely a costly delaying tactic — and they are no longer being silently tolerated by the masses.
Ignore the alarmists on kids and Covid
Let’s get some perspective on the Deltra strain in children — healthy kids are not getting very sick.
Children must not be part of jabs freedom target
Australia’s road to Covid freedom should not rely on kids being vaccinated when the issue remains highly contested among experts.
Bitter ABC doesn’t do balance
Left-wing activist reporters doing confused hit-jobs are making a mockery of the ABC’s claims of accuracy and impartiality.
The rest of the world thinks we’re crazy
Dogs killed in the name of Covid safety, a premier scolding people for watching a sunset. No wonder everyone thinks we’re barking mad.
The shadow pandemic destroying our youth
How many teens need to come forward with self-harm behaviour before the Andrews government acknowledge our youth are in crisis?
Lockdown milestone makes us Miserable Melbourne
What started as a 14-day shutdown to flatten the curve has become 200 days of isolation — and we’ll soon hold the world’s lockdown record.
Childhood mental health crisis data suppressed
We have passed the point where the Covid-19 “cure” is worse than the disease, especially for kids who are suffering more than ever.
Dan’s latest lunacy crushes Melbourne again
A curfew and crackdown on low-risk outdoor settings is an appalling overreach by the Andrews government, which has no solutions beyond ever stricter lockdowns.
Steep health toll our kids face for lockdowns
Our children are paying the biggest price for the botched Covid response — with stunted academic development and mental health issues — but a new dark toll is emerging.
Health chiefs get gold medal for madness
Fully vaccinated Olympians being forced to quarantine for 28 days is the latest example of our health experts losing the plot.
Dan’s critics cop heavy fines
It sure is a coincidence that two of Dan Andrews’ most vocal critics copped Covid breach fines in the first hours of lockdown.
Inflicting cruelty in the name of Covid safety
A desperate mum is being kept from her cancer-stricken daughter in another example of the health bureaucracy’s inhumane bastardry.
Queensland shuns gold standard for Victorian strategy
One wonders whether in 10 or 20 years we’ll look back at this period of collective hysteria and wonder just what happened.
Polls not dire for PM as long as Albo is around
Anthony Albanese is Scott Morrison’s greatest asset — who knows what the polls would be showing if the PM was facing a competent opposition leader.
Young, poor the casualties of COVID hysteria
The hysterical reaction to COVID-19 has prematurely killed hundreds of thousands of young and poor. You have to ask if the cure has been worse than the disease.
Bureaucrat bonuses don’t pass the pub test
The fat cats and public servants’ monster $100 million bonuses prove how abundantly clear that we are not all in this together.
Why do drug users matter more than our kids?
This week, hundreds of kids were exposed to scenes no child should witness, all because of their school’s proximity to Richmond’s government sanctioned injecting room.
Weak, rudderless Libs giving Andrews a free run
Victoria’s Liberal Party is so inept, it can’t even manage its own internal political machinations, let alone put up a fight against Labor.
Activists twisting real concerns into political opportunism
The latest women’s movement has been co-opted by political operatives focused on defeating their ideological opponents, not advancing the cause of women.
Fruitcake Greens turn council into laughing stock
Instead of worrying about vacant shopfronts or filthy streets, Yarra Council will be inspecting residents’ bins to make sure they’re properly folding their cardboard.
Enormous cost of glacial vaccine rollout
Australia can’t afford to be cut off from the rest of the world any longer, so why is there no urgency with the vaccine rollout?
Cancel culture shows who the true Dumbos are
Dumbo and Peter Pan have become the latest victims of cancel culture. It’s time for cowards to stop bending to the hate mob.
Soap Oprah shows spoilt royals are shameless grifters
All the Oprah tell-all did was make the cashed-up couple look like entitled, calculating fantasists willing to sell out their own families.
World’s most privileged victims invite more media intrusion
Harry and Meghan want all the fame, fortune and adulation that comes from their privileged positions without the tedious duty.
Andrews fishing for ‘likes’ on taxpayer dime
What possible justification is there for public money being squandered on boosting Facebook “likes” for the Dan Andrews’ page?
Turnbull’s sick theory new low in vengeful plot
Driven by hate against those who knifed him, Malcolm Turnbull plumbed new lows by airing a sick suicide theory that belongs in the nastiest recesses of Twitter.
Why GOP remains the party of Trump
Even though he lost the election, it’s clear that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and its de facto opposition leader.
This is what happens when you vote Greens
So much of what passes for inclusion nowadays is nothing more than vacuous attention-seeking, victim playing and narcissistic emoting.
Andrews cruelly holding businesses hostage
Every single day of unnecessary restrictions is a heavy burden for battered Victorian businesses, so why do we need to wait until Friday for an announcement?
Andrews must answer questions — and not just on Crown
The Coate inquiry uncritically accepted the testimony of bureaucrats and politicians, but in NSW, Bergin was forensic in uncovering the truth.
Tennis fans won’t cop political posturing
Tennis boos were a backlash to the moral platitudes being heaped on our government’s disastrous pandemic policy, not the vaccine.
Just a matter of time until Cassar is Dan’s next scapegoat
Dan Andrews is nimble at finding convenient scapegoats when the going gets tough. So will he make Emma Cassar the next Jenny Mikakos?
Premier’s hysteria does not match facts
When lockdown lifts, the mandatory mask mandate may remain. But why should Victorians be muzzled in the summer heat?
Regional Vic lockdown bordering on insane
It is absurd to subject Victorians in areas that have not had a COVID case in months to draconian lockdown measures that cripple their society and economy.
Motherhood under attack
Supposedly inclusive terms for women are often dehumanising and dripping in misogyny, reducing womanhood to a body part or function.
‘Anti-racist’ activists promote racism
Having race-obsessed ideologues conduct a review into racism is akin to having vegan activists complete a report into a steak restaurant.
Will Dan change outbreak response after Aus Open?
We can thank the Australian Open for Victoria’s new proportionate COVID response, but how long it lasts is anyone’s guess.
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