COULD THE WHITE ISLAND VOLCANO TRAGEDY HAVE BEEN AVERTED? December 12, 2019 Dear Editor, Not for one moment does my heart (as a father of three and grandfather of six) not go out to those having lost loved ones and to those so horrifically burnt in critical condition (and their families) in the New Zealand […]
“TINDER BOXES WAITING FOR A SPARK” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2019 (Dec. 8, 2019) — No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke. For decades now we have been locking up land, banning burn-offs and encouraging eucalypt fire-trees. On a hot day, […]
“A GREAT IRONY” November 24, 2019 Dear Editor, Spare us your “I could/would have won the election as PM” lamentations, please, Malcolm Turnbull! And fair bloody dinkum! I’ve had a gut-full of the “glitterati,” “chaff-head celeb set,” Leftist MSM pundits, ABC coteries, “clever people,” elites, “wanky people,” etc., etc. bemoaning “Marshmallow” Malcolm’s demise and blaming […]
“SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE” November 19, 2019 Dear Editor: In response to a recent column by Dr. Joel Glass and Tom Harris, I want to draw attention to a remarkable document on climate change and national security. On September 24, 64 senior military and security leaders endorsed “A Climate Security Plan for America.” It’s signed by more […]
“A WELL-EARNED BEER” November 16, 2019 Dear Editor, Oh, what national treachery: the brainwashing and poisoning of the minds (and souls) of our impressionable young (and not-so-young) people! Because there is “climate change,” always has been, and always will be! However that nefarious Greens politician, Adam Bandt, the “little white ant” of reasonableness (not to […]
“EVER-SO-GUTSY” November 7, 2019 Dear Editor, It is so great to see the Scott Morrison-led Lib/Nat Coalition’s continuance of Tony Abbott’s great work on Australia’s border protection and protection of every Australian’s living standards by not having carbon and mining taxes, etc. Tony Abbott (unlike Labor and the Greens) has never betrayed the quiet (and […]
BECAUSE “VENGEANCE IS MINE!” SO SAID THE LORD RE: FACEBOOK’S AFRICAN SATELLITE LAUNCH? November 3, 2019 Dear Editor, So tech titans the likes of Facebook are now being scrutinised over betraying their users’/clients’ privacy and/or not fact-checking political advertising? Well, now, “Vengeance is mine!” so sayeth the Lord! Because Facebook exists only because of Judeo-Christian-based […]
“WILFUL DAMAGE” October 29, 2019 Dear Editor, All those causing Australia‘s wage-earning taxpayers and wealth-creating businesses such inconvenience and monetary losses by so savagely protesting against mining should quietly think through the so-unnecessary and wilful damage they’re doing. Why, for instance, wreck Australia’s economy affording one of the world’s most generous refugee safe-haven programs? Everything […]
PLATO WAS NO MUG? October 23, 2019 Dear Editor, Sadly, so many “educated but unlearned” so-called intellectuals (not to mention really dopey “clever people”) do not study, let alone heed, history! I wonder if Plato’s The Gorgias heralds in today’s looming showdown between Russia and America, with Putin cast as “Callicles the Younger” and Trump […]
IS THE AUSTRALIAN HORSE-RACING INDUSTRY INHUMANE? October 20, 2019 Dear Editor, All those throwing up their arms in shock and horror and shrieking to the heavens over unwanted/end-of-racing-life purebred horses going to the knackery legitimately and humanely (ending high-protein for household pets, racing-greyhounds, zoo animals, etc,) need spare a thought or two for those gone […]
“AMERICA’S BIG STICK” October 19, 2019 Dear Editor, Early 20th-century US President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (a true warrior; proven, brave in battle) often said: “Speak softly and carry a big stick!” The so-very-shallow Barack Obama (except when ‘eliminating’ bin Laden) often talked softly, whilst losing America’s big stick (especially against Putin, in the Baltic regions)! […]
“YOU THERE, DONALD?” October 14, 2019 Dear Editor, The mind simply boggles! A perpetual, Middle-Eastern military mishmash mire, to ponder: In northeastern Syria, the Americans abandon their ‘brothers in arms’ in the fight against the heinous IS, Kurdish allies to a savage onslaught from US NATO ally Turkey; the barbaric Assad-regime Syrians (allied to ex-KGB […]
“GREATEST” VS. “LATEST” October 13, 2019 Dear Editor, Attention all “Greta Groupie” Extinction Rebellion demonstrators/followers/sympathisers: So many of our latest generation, smug and ever-so-snug “ICPP’s” (inner-city pampered poodles) and Western-society cossetted, very young “Generation Snowflakes’” are irrationally obsessed with/suffering from “MmGW Mania,”* resulting in Victoria’s Labor Government’s and their Greens’ stupidity in closing down coal-fired […]
“YOU MAY KNOW HIM BY HIS SIGN” October 10, 2019 To the Editor: Several years ago, Michael Savage wrote that modern-day liberals (not the traditional definition of the word “liberal,” but by the actions and philosophy expressed by Democrats, that capture degrees of socialism, fascism, communism, and a broad range of glaring stupidity), were/are suffering […]
NOW THE DONALD’S TURN? October 9, 2019 Dear Editor, A cursory study of the Great Powers’ Middle-Eastern interference/domination history, from France’s 18th-century invasion of Egypt up until a century ago, reveals the Great Powers’ forced rearranging of historical Middle-Eastern borders. At least Greece was then liberated from 400 years of Turkish Ottoman-Empire subjugation. However, the […]
ADVERTISING’S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES October 7, 2019 Dear Editor, For many years I said, “I can stay off the grog, give up the smokes, stay with the one woman, but food’s my problem!” One of those “problem” foods was KFC (I could rarely go past without buying something). Now, after being ambushed again and again by […]
“PLAYING THE VICTIM CARD”? October 6, 2019 Dear Editor, The vast majority of individual Victorian men and women portrayed as “aboriginal” Australians (as shown on the idiot box regarding Victoria’s proposed “First People’s Assembly” to usher in a treaty in Victoria) appear to me to be either “Snow White’s long-lost twin brother or twin sister”! […]
“NEW-AGE MADNESS” Dear Editor, Good luckto non-dog-accompanied shoppers in Chapel St, which has now well and truly gone to the dogs by letting dogs go (accompanied by humans, I might add) into shops, hairdressers, etc! Having stood (thus stank, sank) in dog muck all over the place (including in restaurants!) in Italy, Spain and Austria, […]
CHINA CONTINUES TO BUILD “MILITARY MIGHT” October 2, 2019 Dear Editor, Chinese ambassador Cheng Jingye is becoming the raw prawn, inferring China is delivering the Aussie dream! Why? Because Red Communist China wants another several decades of “developing-nation” financial and other concessions whilst developing massive military might (often after stealing Western military and industrial intellectual […]
“PLEASE LISTEN TO THE DANES” October 1, 2019 Dear Editor, So Sweden’s 16-year-old man-made global warming guru Greta Thunberg headed off across the Atlantic (in a high-carbon-emissions, construction-type, 21st-century hi-tech boat, fitted out with radar, depth-finding and satellite-monitoring emergency beacon and GPS) to retrace some of her Viking forefathers’ great ocean voyages of discovery in […]