“Morrison is on the right path. He will be PM for some time. If he actually does something about energy security and power prices, he will be unassailable.”
Kathleen concurred:
“Good to see the PM put the carping and hypocritical UN and its NGO hangers-on in their place. I support a Prime Minister who puts the interests of Australians ahead of these virtue-signalling poseurs.”
Ditto Debbie:
”Add water, unions, teaching standards, ditching 18c, immigration, nuclear power, infrastructure and smart defence.”
Nigel noted:
“Increased trade with India to take the heat out of China’s claim that Australia’s success rides on the dragon’s back.”
Paul’s point:
“This sets the scene for action. I hope he has the courage to follow through and announce some meaningful initiatives rejecting the hypocrisy of the UN in particular. It would meet with popular acclaim here and abroad, and the left can please themselves.”
Hagiography from Hadyn:
“The PM is to be congratulated. He is emerging as one of the great Australian leaders and will provide a light for other world leaders to follow.”
Arvid asserted:
“We have wandered a long way off the main path since Howard’s days. Between the media and the cacophony of chirping minorities the govt focus should stay strong always. Yesterday’s resignation by the chair from the Superannuation Review board after bullying from unions and Labor a case in point. Change the rules, unions do NOT run the country or business or lobbying. They may well run the Labor party, but this is a matter for their memberships. The journey back to the sensible centre (where Howard was) will be a long one.”
Pith from Keith:
“Less talk, more action, out of the Paris targets, now.”
Likes from Liz:
“If Morrison’s policies are to be described as ‘populist’ he should wear that description as a badge of honour. A true leader of any country should be endorsing the popular will of the people who voted them into office, not pandering to UN globalism and the self interest of other nations.”
On a roll, said Rick:
“The RGR/Trumble potholes have finally been backfilled. If the Coalition builds some reliable base load power stations and some dams and diversions to harvest the rainfall, Morrison and Dutton could end up being the best thing for our lucky country since the successful Howard and Costello partnership.”
Garry guffawed:
“The ABC will be having an apoplectic fit. The smelling salts will be wafting at Point Piper. Bob Brown would have to be livid. Isn’t it wonderful to finally have a PM who stands up to the overbearing UN and tells them that Australia will decide on these matters.”
Frank was fulsome:
“A momentous article of a great speech by Morrison ... I honestly believe that Australia’s change of approach to the UN will send shock waves through this organisation of majority unelected failed state actors and socialists. Socialism, in its true form, has never truly succeeded (witness China and their lack of basic freedoms) at the nation level and it is arguably destructive at the international level.The UN distorts history, science and sociology. “They are a force for the replacement of values that matter with values that do not matter or resonate with the mainstream. The UN has had a free run for far too long and it is about time there is push-back. Mostly, people are motivated for ‘good’ but they are also inspirational and ego-centric by nature. Most importantly, we do not need critics that have no stake in our society or politics.”
Jim jammed:
“That is the strong leadership that the quiet Australians have been expecting from Mr Morrison. The UN’s time is past due. It has become an unaccountable, highly paid, elite leftist bureaucracy, with over resourced capacity. It is largely unelected and accordingly accepts no responsibility nor financial ramifications. It does favour those organisations who are in breach of international rules, e.g. Palestine vs Israel, non-human rights countries vs those which value human rights, and countries which are allowed to operate unabated in terms of emissions vs those, which at enormous cost to their own economies, have sought to comply with the UN’s exaggerated and unfounded climate ‘catastrophe’.
“Indeed, it is quite comfortable ‘bullying’ compliant countries and demurring to more assertive non-compliers. A little similar to the discrimination laws which favour aggressive minorities while causing grief to the majority who more readily accept democracy.”
Peter proclaimed:
“The focus on India is absolutely correct. One of the largest countries in the world, a democracy, similar legal and commercial systems, a common language in business, cricket, a similar sense of humour - and an optimistic population. Let’s get on with it!”
Last word to Juanita:
“By going global in government we will lose the wonderful individuality of the many small countries we like to visit. Their cultures will be forced to adapt to global orderliness and we will eventually lose the great variability of the people of the earth. For what? Fiscal efficiency and orderliness. We don’t have to look far away to see that.”
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Bella D’Abrera scraped her jaw from the floor before marvelling at the latest lefty loony tune from University of Sydney, which is using taxpayers’ money to research “emboldened white racism in Western liberal democracies”. Wayne was worried:
“Working on a University campus and being preached to about ‘stale pale males’ in a diverse room where there were three people in the minority who might fit that description, I know what it feels like to be vilified and threatened for merely being as God created me. Clearly discrimination laws have an exclusion for chronologically progressed white men? It is frightening that your employment might be determined on these factors regardless of performance. Virtue signalling is a chronic infection of the mind at universities. Usyd is patient zero.”
Anne was angry:
“Well I have been called a ‘white c***’ while just walking along minding my own business so it isn’t just the stale pale white males who are being targeted. It must get so tiring always seeking offence where none existed while overlooking anybody else such as Arab or African slave traders, Asian racists, caste systems, bride burning, etc. and those are nothing to do with Anglo-Celtic anything.”
Silent Majority suggested:
“They probably got the line from their ABC’s Black Comedy program.”
John joined in:
“It seems as though — as a white Anglo Saxon male from Britain — academics and the ABC and The Guardian want me to feel ashamed and guilty of my heritage, and to confess that only harm came from Colonisation. That is to pretend that the Industrial Revolution that we exported to the world provided no benefits whatsoever, destroyed the planet and brought only misery. Ain’t happening.”
Stephen’s story:
“The daughter of a friend works in one of these humanities departments at a university in Queensland. For a bit of fun the other day I had a look at her Twitter feed.
“Really, it seems the rest of us pay good money for her to spend a significant part the working day yelling at the world on Twitter.
“It is a little tiresome hearing how ashamed she is of this country. Now that sentiment may be seen by some to be somewhat misguided but she is entitled to it.
“However, the question to ask, is it on job description of people in academia, to villify and hate in working in hours?”
Greg said:
“Peter Costello as Treasurer used to go through Budget projections line by line and with a red pen crossed out any item which he deemed not worthy of funding. The Australian Research council should be hit with a red pen. It is time for Josh to take up Peter’s method of Budget pruning especially looking at the government agencies/qangos/arts and other advisory bodies.
Couple of billion per year could be easily saved.”
Michael’s missus saw red:
“This rubbish makes my blood boil! I’ve travelled to over 80 countries around the world and my experience shows Australia to be the LEAST racist country. I’ve also worked in predominantly male industries since I was a teenager and have only ever been supported by my male colleagues. The ‘academics’ in these institutions need to be institutionalised as they are delusional.”
Sense from Steve:
“Is this what it’s come to? Is this the most important research these knuckleheads can come up with? The world is made up of various races and tribes. Most get along with each other but some don’t.
“In Australia the majority of people have no concept of this ABC, SBS, lefty, PC, universities beat up they promote as racism. They do however have the understanding that all races have their individualities, which does not prevent us being one united country — enjoying the intertwining of differences. That is not racism. It is realism.”
Brendan asked:
“What about those of us who are persons of colour but trapped in a white body? The race we were assigned at birth does not define us. We have the right to racial self-identification in accordance with our own lived experience. We could start by wearing badges: ‘Don’t assume my race!’”
Jim took a dim view:
“If universities are really interested in threats to Australian society they should start with themselves and their fellow travellers who promote Marxist philosophy and division of society based on race, gender, age, religion, age, skin colour, and politics.
“Instead we are constantly bombarded by left wing nonsense and make believe. We have had reoccurring reports about speakers being banned because they do not promote contemporary left wing politics and views, we have students and even lecturers too frightened to express views or use certain references in their papers and essays, we have seen make believe reports about university assaults and rapes etc.
“Another course of study could be ‘Why do the majority of Australians see universities as a source of contempt and derision?’ Or ‘Why are students too frightened to express their own views?’ Or ‘Why are universities frightened to promote courses in Western democracy and culture?’Or ‘Why are western cultures and democracies more successful than socialist, communist, and Marxist cultures?’
Colin gets comment of the week:
“Sure this kind of thing is absurd, risible, contemptible etc, but worse than that, it’s ugly, oppressive, and menacing, and intended to be. Anyone who has read Orwell’s 1984 will recall that one of the key means by which the Party keeps power is to terrorise the populace into shrieking hatred in support of manifest persecuting lies, so that they will realise that truth and reason have no potency and give no protection against arbitrary Party power.
“Orwell was implicitly pointing to the perverse logic of the communist ‘show trials’, of which Stalin’s high-profile ones are well-known, but which the Communists used routinely to conduct wherever they took power down to the level of the village. Respected persons would be put on public trial for ‘crimes’ which everyone knew they could not conceivably have committed, but all had to howl for their blood from the realisation that if they didn’t they’d be the next to be tried. It was essential that the charges be incontestably false, irrational and nonsensical.
“So it is with the kind of PC absurdity to which Bella D’Abrera is alerting us. It serves to maintain the massive power of the PC opinion-dictators, PC bureaucracies and PC thought-police in our society, including on the campuses, in schools, in the media, in political parties, and in the law, by demonstrating that the PC power-cults have such fearsome power that reason and logic will not protect dissenters who threaten their power from persecution, discrimination and worse, including in university courses and campus discourse.
“Orwellian double-think and thought-stop are required to be practised by all. So it is that those who scorn compelled orthodoxy re the pretend-threat of ‘white supremacism’ are ipso facto intolerant, racist, and enemies of ‘diversity’, with this making them undeserving of being tolerated or heard, or of having their presence endured.”
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