Author: The Thought Hub
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Think they just want to change Australia Day? That is just the start…
There’s an old saying that rings true when I think about the annual Australia Day debate: ‘give them an inch and they will take a mile.’ Year upon year Australia endures its annual Groundhog Day of activist guilt tripping and grievance mongering. Shrill screams of ‘Invasion Day’ and ‘No Pride in Genocide’ pollute the streets…
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Predictions about the slow death of the Liberal Party miss the mark
It seems that after every election loss there is the mandatory series of opinion columns enthusiastically overusing hyperbolic words like ‘crisis’ and ‘death’ to ascribe the state of affairs for the vanquished party. In 2019, apparently the Labor Party faced an ‘existential crisis’ with an uncertain future. Fast forward to 2022 and pundits are predicting…
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Why there needs to be more stigma around letting young kids use mobile phones
If you were out in public and saw a parent giving a cigarette to a toddler you would likely be calling the Department of Human Services, and rightly so. Yet there is pervasive use of another toxic item that most of us simply do not question enough: the smartphone. To be frank, it is…
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Dear Liberals – how to beat the teals at their own game
I was once a member of the Liberal Party. Fresh out of university and eager to get involved with a party that broadly matched my philosophy, I attended a few branch meetings, distributed how-to-vote cards on election day and lapped up the atmosphere of a state conference. Yet, life got in the way. I felt…
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Scomo finished? Not when you look at the numbers that matter
It is easy to think that the Morrison government is about to be consigned to history in the coming months. A series of controversies and negative media coverage, much of it unwarranted, is definitely testing the government’s momentum leading into the election. Twitter activists are delighted when they see every poll showing Labor in front,…
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It’s time to call out the leftist bullshit
It’s time to call out the bullshit. During the past fortnight, the bullshit dial elevated to the critical red zone. So much bullshit. If the revolving door of mind-blowing hypocrisy and stupidity of the past few days is indicative of what to expect throughout this election campaign, it’s going to be a long one. Let’s…
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Morrison has delivered more than he gets credit for
We certainly live in strange times. 2022 has unfortunately begun much as 2021 ended for Scott Morrison: under intense pressure, his poll numbers dwindling and a growing disquiet amongst the electorate that renders the prospect of an Albanese led Labor government more than just a leftist fantasy. On one level, this is understandable. Morrison has…
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Why did the left hate Gladys Berejiklian?
Gladys Berejiklian was the first woman elected premier in New South Wales. She is the daughter of Armenian immigrants who did not begin learning English until she was in primary school. She was educated in the public system and for most of her life she has been a member of Girl Guides, whose mission is…
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Victoria has failed, again
Today, Victoria surpassed New South Wales in daily case numbers. We are only 54 days into the current outbreak. NSW, the state where Gladys Berejiklian apparently did not lockdown hard enough and put the country at risk, had less than a third of the 867 cases Victoria counted at day 54 of its outbreak. For…
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Dan Andrews must resign for the good of the country
Was anyone actually surprised? We had been promised the gold standard. The first class. Top notch. Improvements had been made, Andrews assured us. Lessons had been learned. The mistakes of the past were just that, the past. Yet here we are, back in lockdown. We are told it is only for five days. But who…
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