“Old farms, new farms, small and large are closing every week. Regional businesses and towns are in crisis,” a Victorian farmer told me. Thousands have attended protest meetings in Albury, Deniliquin and Griffith and down the Murray River to South Australia, over farmers being starved of irrigation water after only a two-year dry. This is…
The loss of long-time National Party seats in the New South Wales election begs the question: what is going on in the rural sector? The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (SFFP) won the National Party strongholds of Murray (taking in a major irrigation districts in southern NSW) and Barwon (which covers 44 per cent of…
With the federal election due soon, Australian politicians could heed the example of political parties winning government in parts of Eastern and Western Europe on pro-family economic platforms. The policies of these parties are designed to stem Europe’s demographic decline that, in turn, is drawing millions of migrants, legal and illegal, from Africa and the…
Cardinal George Pell, one of the highest prelates of the Catholic Church, has been convicted by a jury of child sexual abuse, and is awaiting sentencing. His defence lawyers have announced an appeal. Leading commentators and lawyers have questioned the conviction. Andrew Bolt is a leading Australian commentator on Sky News. He describes himself as…
