by Patrick J. Byrne Even if this year’s spring brings major rains, the severe two-year drought in the Murray-Darling Basin has demonstrated that the $13 billion federal Basin Plan is unworkable, putting major rural industries (and government seats) at risk in Australia’s major food bowl. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s recent appointment of Keith Pitt as…
by Patrick J. Byrne With the death of Holden, the disruption of global supply chains by covid19 (coronavirus) and the United States’ fundamental “reset” of its foreign policy towards China, Australia must now rebuild its manufacturing and rural sectors in the national interest. Together, these events uncover the disastrous cost of misplaced free-market doctrines and…
While the Queensland and Victorian governments are planning to ban counselling that would assist gender-confused people to accept their biological sexual identity, in Britain, a landmark case is being taken against the UK National Health Service (NHS) prescribing “experimental” puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Queensland and Victoria are conducting inquiries into legislation to criminalise…
While the bushfires have allowed the green-left media to regroup on climate change after the issue fell flat at the federal election, if the Morrison Government articulates a coherent environmental policy dealing with pollution and water needs, it can defang the environmental extremists. Meanwhile, the Earth, rather than heading for catastrophe, just keeps getting greener.…
