MasterChef season 16 is under fire for greenwashing. The ABC ran a bit of a hit piece, well, not really a hit piece – well, kind of – attacking MasterChef’s green gas. “Why MasterChef is being criticised over a sponsorship deal” – we’ll get to that soon. Note, MasterChef is filmed in Australia’s most left-leaning state of Victoria where traditional flame-top cooking is under threat. As of January 2024, the Victorian government has banned all gas connections to new homes and government buildings. It doesn’t matter if you like cooking with gas, the Government will not allow you.

This year’s season of MasterChef is sponsored by a whole bunch of companies, but one that stands out, and one that the ABC chose to focus its piece on, is Renewable Gas – Australian Gas Networks (AGN), an Australian energy company that operates gas transmission pipelines across many parts of Australia. Specifically, they’re promoting the use of hydrogen, the universe’s most abundant element, which can be produced from water using electricity, and when burned, it only produces water vapour and heat, so it’s a perfectly clean product. The ABC made sure to include this picture, though, warning that hydrogen gas is highly flammable, but isn’t all cooking gas flammable? If it wasn’t, then surely you couldn’t use it to cook!

The MasterChef contestants are also using biomethane, which is captured from decomposing waste products, and can be used interchangeably with natural gas.

But despite the green credentials of the gas products being used, Victoria’s Allan Government are not having a bar of it. Gas is bad, m’kay? How can we trust a fossil fuel company? The gas ban forges ahead! “Allan government steps up war on gas”, “Victoria bans gas rebates and incentives for homes as shift to all-electric gathers pace”. Basically, the Victorian Government have made it illegal for companies to offer cash incentives or rebates to households that install new gas appliances, or connect to the gas network, it ..

I wouldn’t normally talk about this sort of stuff, but it’s all over the news. It was front page on Australia’s biggest news website news.com.au. Even our ABC got in on the action and ran a piece about gig etiquette after American comedian Arj Barker ejected an Aussie mother and her crying baby. Obviously, this is indeed a First World problem. Sudan civil war: Starvation and death; Potential all-out war in the Middle East; Breastfeeding mother ‘humiliated’ after asked to leave Melbourne comedy show. It didn’t take us long to get over the terrorist attack, did it?

So what happened? Arj Barker was performing his show in front of a large crowd in Melbourne on Saturday night when he was distracted by a noisy baby. He made a few jokes about the baby, then he eventually said, “I speak baby and it said ‘take me outside’”, which he repeated. Then he just directly asked the mother, Trish Faranda, and her seven-month-old child to leave, in which she did, as well as 10 or 12 other people – mostly women and mothers – who joined her in walking out of the theatre in solidarity.

Of course, people jumped online trying to shame Arj Barker for daring to kick out an innocent breastfeeding mother: “Arj Barker should be ashamed for evicting breastfeeding mum”. “Let’s not give this sad, pathetic joke of a comedian a platform to speak from and instead just relegate him to the land of washed up, stale and forgotten comedians.” A bit harsh, isn’t it?

The mother actually went on multiple TV shows to explain what happened. In her A Current Affair interview, ironically, Ms Faranda’s baby became unsettled and viewers struggled to hear what she or the interviewer were saying. The Project, of course, took the side of the mother, “Arj Barker Backlash – Mum and Baby Kicked Out”. But of course, what happened during the interview? The baby started crying, with the interviewer asking the mother, “Maybe she can go to dad just for a quick second?”. Perhaps the name of the segment should have been r..

In yesterday’s video, I perhaps took the mickey out of Indigenous maths, or more specifically, woke university professors trying to force it upon their students, while also trying to make students feel guilty about Australia’s colonial past by stating that modern-day mathematics is primarily European and British-based, which was forced upon Indigenous peoples. But as some of you pointed out, mathematics has its roots in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) – the Babylonians and so on – followed closely by Ancient Egypt, so essentially, we’ve all learnt mathematics from other lands and peoples across time. Anyway, in this video, in the interest of fairness, I’d like to present a real-life example of Indigenous maths.

In modern-day schooling, students typically learn multiplication through the use of times tables, right? No surprises there. So for example, 2 × 4 = 8, you can just think of it as two groups of four and then add them together using your fingers if your wanted to. But Dr Chris Matthews of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Maths Alliance, and also an Associate Dean at University Technology of Sydney, describes how Aboriginal children turned the equation 2 × 4 = 8 into a dance about flying brolgas. A group of two children, acting as brolgas, flew together, and then linked up with another group of two, and then two more groups of two to become a collection of eight in total.

Okay, so I’m not trying to take away from the learning potential of this activity. Perhaps it sounds like a lot of fun, at least for some children, but is it practical? There are dozens of number facts here, not to mention addition, subtraction and division. Are we going to make up an Indigenous dance for each one? I think as a one-off sort of thing, it’s probably okay and a bit of fun, but in the long run, I think students just need to be encouraged to put their heads down and do some good old-fashioned study and revision.

As I mentioned previously, Indigenous children are falling be..

You’d think maths is maths, right? 2 + 2 = 4, no matter what culture you’re from. Well, Indigenous mathematics is apparently completely different to our western style of maths. And of course, perhaps unsurprisingly to many of you, Western maths is a result of evil colonisation, didn’t you know? As seen on a news article on the ANU website: “Maths has no borders: Professor Rowena Ball brings Indigenous mathematics to ANU”. I find it interesting that a non-Indigenous lady is bringing Indigenous maths to the uni. Wouldn’t that be similar to: “Food has no borders: Professor Ball brings Pakistani food to ANU”? Of course, I’m joking. She’d probably bring kangaroo tail stew.

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Indigenous maths! So why are we talking about Indigenous maths? Why is this even being brought up? Well, it’s because Indigenous people are falling behind when it comes to maths. “‘Unacceptable’: Indigenous maths achievement gap under scrutiny”. Basically, the achievement gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students continues to widen.

If you take a look at the Australian Government’s ACARA website, they report on the National Assessment Program, NAPLAN results, which take into account Indigeneity. These are the average achievement scores for Year 9 in Numeracy for 2023. You can see that the average score is 567, with boys doing slightly better than girls. However, Indigenous students are scoring significantly worse than their non-Indigenous peers at 491 vs 573 – a more than 80-point difference. Surprisingly, or not, the best performers are those that have a language background other than English. So if you can’t speak English, you do well at maths, if you’re Aboriginal, well for whatever reason, on average you’re doing quite poorly. Surely there’s a societal issue at play here. It’s certainly not from a lack of capability.

Well it didn’t take me long to find the answer. This is the Government’s My School website where you can search for individual schools and t..

Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably all know about the Sydney mass stabbing at a Bondi Junction shopping centre where seven people were killed including the perpetrator. It made the world news. The reason it made the world news, is because Australia is internationally seen as a safe country (except for those pesky redbacks and taipans), but otherwise free from incidents of mass violence, so this mass stabbing broke the mould. If the same thing happened in say Somalia, you’d be lucky to hear anything about it. Although interestingly, Somali refugee families are sending their sons back to Africa to escape out-of-control knife crime in the UK.

Of course, regarding the Sydney stabbing, online commentators were quick to point the finger without knowing all the details. One side was blaming radical Islamists or jihadists for the attack. The other side was blaming Jewish extremists, even going so far as to naming a particular individual, an innocent Jewish university student, Benjamin Cohen, based entirely on his slight resemblance to a grainy mobile phone image, despite him being 20 years the man’s junior.

As it turns out, both side were wrong. It wasn’t an Islamist or a pro-Israeli Zionist, it was an Aussie English tutor from Queeensland who liked surfing, and who was diagnosed with schizophrenia more than 20 years ago and was off his medication at the time of the stabbings.

Look, I don’t think humans have got any worse over the years. Go back 50 years, and I’m sure there were people spreading similar types of rumours and gossip, but this was typically limited to their circle of friends. Fast-forward to the modern world, and now you can spread the same rumours and gossip to your five million followers. As we saw, things can rapidly get out of hand.

My strategy is pretty simple, if I don’t know for sure, I’ll typically refrain from saying it, although, we all make mistakes, I’m sure, especially in these breaking news environments where the facts h..

Ice hockey, maple syrup, gender, diversity and inclusion, Niagara Falls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dancing at Pride parades. These are just a few of the things Canada is famous for. But increasingly, Canada is becoming famous for having an incredibly and increasingly low fertility rate. Here’s the latest data from Statistics Canada. At a current rate of 1.33 births per woman – What is a woman? Canada doesn’t know – but one thing that is clear, this is the lowest total fertility rate in more than a century. It’s the lowest on record. Some might call this a crisis, right? How do you think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is dealing with this? Well, in a recent tweet, he said, “Women should be free to choose the contraceptives they need without cost getting in the way. So, we’re making contraceptives free.”

Look, I’m not here to debate whether contraceptives should be free or not, but when your birthrate is plummeting, is this the right course of action? Making it easier for people to prevent pregnancy? This can only have one result, right? Further declines in the fertility rate. There’s no way this would result in the opposite. It can only result in a fertility decline. I’m not suggesting that Justin Trudeau is intentionally trying to reduce the birth rate, but what else will this logically result in?

Of course, when he says contraceptives will be free, he means the taxpayer will fund people’s contraception. Perhaps a more accurate tweet would have been: “all Canadians will now share the cost of birth control for those that can’t afford it.” Obviously, nothing in Canada is truly free, except perhaps the cold.

Some cynical people might suggest that Trudeau’s announcement for free contraceptives could be translated as: “We want women to work and not have families”.

Despite the dramatic fall in the fertility rate, the population of Canada has been rapidly increasing. For the first time in history, the population grew by more than a million in a single year surpass..

“In so called ‘Australia’, the voices of First Nations LGBTIQ+ people are often ignored.” Yes, here we go. “Gender binary is a construct that was enforced on this land through colonisation.” Of course it was. Anybody surprised by that statement? Even though I was always led to believe there was something called men’s and women’s business where certain places and practices were strictly for men or women only as part of ancestral law, well before colonists arrived. Anyhoo, in Australia, I always thought this was the acronym, well, technically, an initialism, but let’s run with acronym. Either way, they’re both abbreviations to ostensibly make things easier in speech and writing. In a previous video, I somewhat jokingly said that Canada is more inclusive because it’s got a longer acronym: 2SLGBTQIA+, where 2S stands for Two-Spirit, which is used to indicate a person whose gender identity comprises both masculine and feminine spirits.

Australians, not to be outdone by the Canadians, have seemingly added some more letters to our acronym. I was reading this article on the ABC about the Cass Review in England, which recommends the National Health Service significantly limit the prescribing of medications — colloquially known as puberty blockers — for people aged under 18. In the article, they quote the Australian Medical Association who use the acronym: LGBTQIASB+. They seem to have used the letter B twice. I thought it must be a mistake, but no, it’s not.

Just to be clear, I’m not here to attack individual people – people are who they are – I’m just here to point out the madness that has become this acronym.

So I went to the AMA’s website and found their position statement on LGBTQIASB+ Health. Curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to find out what the S and the B stood for. Well, they stand for Sistergirl and Brotherboy. Excuse my ignorance, but what the hell does that mean? As I kind of hinted at at the start, it’s to do with Aboriginality. “Aboriginal and To..

We all know that the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, which cost around $450 million of your taxpayer money, was a complete flop with Australians collectively voting No, but it wasn’t from lack of trying! A number of major Australian companies donated millions of dollars towards the Yes campaign. What these businesses have to do with pushing for constitutional amendment, I don’t know. It seems rather absurd, if you ask me.

In this video, we take a look at the Australian Electoral Commission’s Transparency Register. The AEC is obliged to publish financial information such as donations and expenditure before the end of 24 weeks after voting day. Noting this was updated 3 April 2024. It should also be noted that the disclosure threshold for this referendum was $15,200, This means many donations are not visible, because only those above the threshold need to be disclosed. It can be a little bit dodgy in that there is nothing to stop anyone making multiple small donations to avoid disclosure. Luckily, our big woke companies wanted people to know what they were donating. That was the whole point of their donations – Virtue signalling! It certainly wasn’t a very good business decision.

Anyway, we’re interested in the Transparency Register. Specifically, Referendum Returns. The organisation Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, which ran the Yes23 campaign, received a massive $47.4 million or so, of which it spent around $43.8 million, by far the biggest beneficiary of donations during the referendum campaign. The University of New South Wales, which housed the Uluru Statement from the Heart group, received around $11.1 million in donations. Australians for Unity were the largest No campaigner receiving around $10.8 million in donations. With the Liberal Party of Australia, who backed the No campaign, coming in a distant fourth with $1.9 million. There’s dozens more entities listed, which we won’t go into here, but no matter how you look at it..

In Australia, autumn officially starts in March. So of course, what does the Bureau of Meteorology do? They make a prediction, of course! “A dry autumn forecast for most of Australia. Warmer than usual daytime temperatures…” Of course, the news agencies jumped on board: “Australia sweats through third-hottest summer on record with hot and dry autumn predicted”, “hot and dry autumn in store for most of Australia”. But of course, what do you think actually happened a few weeks later, as we’ve seen a lot of late? It rained! “Heavy rain creates rare waterfalls over massive rock in Australia. Even the park rangers marvelled over the rare waterfalls falling from Australia’s Uluru. All we can do is watch in awe…” Okay, so that was just a one-off event in a one-off location. That doesn’t mean the Bureau’s prediction was wrong, does it?

“Australia's third wettest March on record”. If you look at the Bureau’s website, Australia in March 2024, “The national area-averaged March rainfall total was 86.1% above the 1961–1990 average, the third-wettest March on record since the national dataset began in 1900. It was the second-wettest March on record for the Northern Territory, and fourth-wettest March on record for Western Australia.” It should be noted that the “mean temperature was 1.11 °C above average, the equal-tenth-warmest March on record”.

Here’s the rainfall map for Queensland with areas in green showing above average rainfall, and areas in blue showing 200% to 300% of average rainfall.

Western Australia had massive inland rainfall with purple indicating 400% of average.

The North Territory, home to Uluru, the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid Red Centre, also had massive rainfalls well above average with 300% and 400% across much of the region. No wonder there were waterfalls on Uluru. Even if you look at the actual rainfall amounts, hundreds of millimetres of rain were dumped across the desert!

Australia was wet in March in many parts of the country. So som..

Adelaide, the City of Churches, South Australia’s cosmopolitan coastal capital. The First Nations Voice votes are in, and women have the upper hand. As we saw in yesterday’s video, despite having more votes, some men missed out in the other regions because they didn’t identify as females, but in Adelaide, the opposite is true – Many women missed out because of their lack of a doodle. It’s both funny and ridiculous, which pretty much sums up this entire First Nations Voice election. Let’s take a look at the results.

Because Central region has so many more people than the other regions, the number of elected positions were 11 – as compared to 7 in the other regions – 5 males, 5 females, and 1 any gender. Here are the results, which I’ll put into a spreadsheet. There were more than 40 candidates, so I’ll only show you the top 15.

Moogy, Susan, April, Deb, Douglas, Tahlia, Rosalind, and Cheryl were all elected as expected with the highest number of votes. But as you can see, we’ve already reached the imposed limit of six women. Consequently, Marnie, Jennifer, Khatija, and Patricia, despite having more votes than the males below them, all missed out because they don’t have the prerequisite appendage. If you voted for any of these ladies, despite them winning on votes, your vote has been taken away from you. Your “voice” has been conveniently ignored due to your candidates lacking a Y chromosome.

Thereupon, Robert and Scott were elected as they satisfy the government-dictated ethnicity and gender requirements. Despite having a beard, Harold missed out. I assume he didn’t get enough preferences? Although, who would know in this farcical election? Yvonne, Kim, Sonia, and Chris all missed out with all their votes being distributed to other candidates due to their lack of male genitalia. While Tony took it all with his right mix of reproductive organs and ancestral background.

So according to the official results page, after the distribution of preferences, the followin..

A couple of weekends ago, South Australians (well, some South Australians) voted in the historic First Nations Voice Election, and now a couple of weeks later, the results are flowing in. (It’s a very sparsely populated state). On their homepage, you can view the results, and in this presentation, I’ll show you some of the results and how dodginess ensued.

There were a total of six electoral regions with only Region 1 – Central not yet counted (It’s the most populated region as it encompasses the capital city of Adelaide). I’ll analyse those results in a future video.

As an example of dodginess, I’ll show you the results of Region 2 – Far North. Here’s a map of Australia, and that greyed region is the Far North region of South Australia. In terms of land mass, the entire UK could quite easily fit into that region. It’s a massive area. How many people do you think voted? Well, here are the results: 305 total votes, four of which were informal. For this massive region, admittedly sparsely populated, only 300 or so people voted. How can this be?

Well, first of all, only those who identified as First Nations people were allowed to vote, a very questionable practice in my opinion. And secondly, voting in this election was not compulsory, which is at odds with every other state and federal election where voting is mandatory. Also, not to mention that in this entire massive region, there were only two polling booths. Imagine voting in the UK general election with only two voting booths, say one in Birmingham, and one in Edinburgh. It would be preposterous! Obviously, I’m having a bit of fun here.

To be fair to the Electoral Commission of South Australia, they did have a number of mobile polling booths, but I still feel that only 300 people voting was an incredibly low number.

And now the results, the dodgiest of all! I’ll put these into a spreadsheet, so it’s easier to do some calculations. Noting that there were seven positions to elect. So Mark Campbell with 70 v..

I’ve finally caved. I’ve chosen my pronouns, and published them to the world. I was reminded by YouTube to update my pronouns – I didn’t even know I could. “Pronouns are a critical part of personal identity and expression.” “Critical: Having a decisive or crucial importance in the success, failure, or existence of something.” Jeez, well if my very existence depends on it, I better update my pronouns. In my Channel Dashboard, I need to click on Customisation. Then I have to go to Basic Info. Scrolling down, you can Add Pronoun. “Type to find your pronouns”. That’s a bit presumptuous calling me “your”. Anyway, as you start typing, it shows you a list of approved pronouns. For example, for “B”, there are no approved pronouns: “We are periodically reviewing pronouns which may become available in the future.” I wait with bated breath.

I quite like “aers”, it sounds like Ayers Rock, Uluru. The Bureau of Meteorology were predicting a hot and dry autumn earlier this month, so of course, a few weeks later, it’s been raining and cold. “Rare rain on Uluru creates stunning waterfall”. So “aers” is my first pronoun. It looks like you can select more. “Cos”, not just the cosine (I love maths, by the way), but also cos lettuce! With its crispy, green leaves, sharp in flavour, it’s a perfect addition to any salad or sandwich, so of course, I’ll add it to my list of pronouns.

“Mer”, as in mermaid, or merman. I’ve always wanted to breathe underwater, so of course, I’ll add it to my growing list. I wonder how many of these I can add.

“Thon”, it sounds like a Greek god. Not to mention marathon, a test of courage, character, and physical endurance.

Oh, it looks like I’ve reached my limit for pronouns. Of course, I want my pronouns to be visible to everyone! I’ve got nothing to hide. I’ll just publish that. If you look at my channel now, you can see, Daily Insight: aers/cos/mer/thon! And you better use my correct pronouns, or else!

Of course, some will accuse me of taking the mic..

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party have long been opposed to high levels of immigration to Australia. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream often label this as “xenophobic” or even “racist”, which I think is just lazy journalism, but a typical reaction from the powers that be who support high immigration levels. However, in recent times, it seems to be that it’s not just people from the political right that are in favour of reducing immigration.

For example, the ABC published an article indicating that record immigration is probably starting to hurt: “The uncomfortable truth about record high immigration levels, rents and inflation”, where they ask the question: “Wouldn't it make more sense to simply scale back the level of immigration, even temporarily, to take the pressure off rents and help lower inflation?” Yeah, it would make sense.

Bob Carr, former Labor Premier of New South Wales, has also recently spoke out against Australia’s high immigration levels: “‘We don’t need it’: Bob Carr slams Australia’s record immigration intake”.

Australia brought in a record 737,000 people in 2022-23 financial year, up 73%. Adjusting for migrant departures, that’s still a record net annual gain of 518,000 people, almost the population of Tasmania.

The Barefoot Investor, Scott Pape, has recently been speaking out against Australia’s immigration policy as well. He said it’s time to ask some hard questions. “‘2000 a day’: Barefoot Investor Scott Pape hits out at ‘broken’ Australia”. In terms of the housing crisis, he said, “Yes, there’s more to solving the property crisis than immigration. There’s the tax breaks that favour investors, a genuine lack of supply, and more social housing that needs to be built. Yet the fact remains that, as it stands, overseas arrivals are outpacing the construction of new homes at a rate of almost four to one. Why are we currently bringing in 2000 new migrants a day – 659,800 in the last year – when the rental market is in crisis? Our politicians like ..

It was Harmony Day yesterday, a time to celebrate Australia’s rich cultural diversity. As my wife is Chinese, my daughter wanted to wear a Chinese dress to school, which she did, but despite my son’s school trying to bribe the student population with ice blocks to wear orange or dress up in cultural garb, he wasn’t having a bar of it and went dressed in school uniform. Fair enough. Of course, I support both my children’s views. If people want to dress up, fine, but equally, if they don’t want to celebrate Harmony Day, they shouldn’t be forced to.

On paper, Harmony Day or Harmony Week or whatever, is a feel-good exercise “to recognise diversity and inclusion in Australia”. Personally, it’s not my cup of tea — a bit too trite for my liking — but I appreciate that people want to celebrate it. However, there are certain segments of the Progressive Left, or the Woke Left, who don’t like the positive message that it sends, and want to take the Harmony out of Harmony Day.

Case in point, the Australian Greens. The once environmentally-focused party has now firmly attached itself to to the Woke Left, its politics demanding, no, requiring authoritarianism to work. Here’s their page on Harmony Day, “Addressing the Harm Must Be Part of Celebrating Harmony”. They state, “Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In Australia, this day has been rebranded to Harmony Day. Rebranding the day might make us feel positive and comfortable, but does not actively encourage conversations about racism.” You see, the Greens don’t want to focus on harmony, they want us to focus on racism. I sometimes think that if it wasn’t for their ideological obsession with racism, they would no longer exist.

Here’s an article from taxpayer-funded SBS, “Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi says Harmony Week ignores the lived reality of racism.” Oh yes, “Feminist. Engineer. Migrant.”, Dr Mehreen Faruqi struggles everyday with racism on her senators salary. I believe it’s aro..

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard is of the opinion that we should do away with the ‘Long COVID’ terminology altogether, and he has evidence to back it up. He was the lead author of some new research that found that the long-term symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to that of other viral infections. He said, “I believe it is time to stop using the term Long COVID. Using this term Long COVID implies that this virus has some unique, exceptional, and sinister property that differentiates it from other viruses and makes it far worse. We know that long-term symptoms after viral infections do occur, no matter what that infection is. That is something that is well described. This terminology can cause unnecessary fear, and in some cases, hypervigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery. Our evidence suggests that there isn't, that it is not dissimilar to other viruses. That does not mean that you can't get these persistent symptoms following COVID-19, but you're no more likely to get it after COVID than with other respiratory viruses.”

However, he did stress that he was not questioning the validity of long COVID. He said, “I want to make it clear that the symptoms that some patients describe after having COVID-19 are real. We believe they are real. What we are saying is that the incidence of these symptoms is no greater in COVID-19 than it is in other respiratory viruses and that to use this term long COVID is misleading. Post-viral syndromes do occur. We're absolutely saying that it does exist. We see it with Ross River virus. Clearly, we see it with influenza as well. But in the vast majority of people, recovery is the norm.”

Of course, many articles and commentators have come out in opposition of Dr Gerrard’s findings. The Conversation: “Why scrapping the term ‘long COVID’ would be harmful for people with the condition”. In there, they mention Dr Steven Faux who is the co-lead of a Long COVID clinic in Sydney, who stated the study is not without..

Escalating criminal activity and a youth crime crisis, homelessness and a cost of living crisis, tent cities springing up in public parks, a premier who doesn’t seem to be able to organise an Olympics: “If these are the Games Brisbane will deliver, perhaps it's not worth it”; “‘A joke’: Brisbane Olympics backflip slammed”. Here’s the 1928 Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam which could hold around 32,000 people. Here’s the next smallest stadium, Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, which will hold 40,000 people after renovating the dilapidated stands for $1.6 billion, but only hold 14,000 after the Games are complete. The stadiums kind of look the same, except there’s about a one-hundred-year difference. “Crowded out: $1.6bn stadium to be smallest Games athletics venue in 104 years”. Anyway, these are just some of the reasons the Queensland public are losing faith in the Labor Government.

On the weekend there was an election. Well, everyone voted in the local government elections, but there were also two state by-elections in Inala and Ipswich West, and Labor didn’t do very well. Crikey: “By-election loss an ominous sign for QLD Labor”; The Guardian: “Shock losses to LNP and Greens in Queensland elections sound warning for Labor ahead of October poll”; ABC: “LNP takes heartland seat of Ipswich West with heavy swing away from Labor; “Gold Coast Bulletin: “‘Totally tanked’: Labor’s by-election disaster”. All sides of the political spectrum agree, the Labor vote crumbled.

In Ipswich West, there were huge swings against Labor to the Liberal National Party with their “tough on crime” message. With a swing of almost 18%, LNP’s Darren Zanow has gained the Labor heartland seat. Looking at the results, One Nation suffered a 3.8% swing against, with some insiders hypothesising that the LNP leader David Crisafulli’s conservative approach to crime and treaty has swayed some One Nation voters to the LNP. Although, One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson wasn’t too worried by t..

Tomorrow 16 March is election day for the South Australian First Nations Voice, although you probably wouldn’t know it. On news.com.au, their top stories are, “‘WHEELS ARE COMING OFF’: Palace in crisis following Photoshop fail”, and, “I thought my vagina was broken”. Doing a search for “voice” reveals zero results on their front page. It clearly isn’t a top priority. The ABC is not much better. These are their South Australian Top Stories, and again, doing a search, there is not one mention of the South Australian Voice. Although, they did find time to talk about a ping pong ball-sized blueberry, and actor Olivia Munn’s double mastectomy. I’m not saying these aren’t important, but it’s just odd, for an election that’s being held tomorrow for Australia’s very first Indigenous Voice to Parliament, it’s getting very little coverage. I was only reminded about it because a viewer told me.

No matter what happens tomorrow, this First Nations Voice is going ahead whether you like it or not. It differs from last year’s federal Indigenous Voice to Parliament in that it’s not constitutionally enshrined. It passed Parliament last year, which means it now exists in state laws. So as long as the current Labor government are in power, this state-based Voice will continue to exist. There is a state election in 2026, so this means there will be at least two years of this Voice to look forward to. The Liberal opposition have stated that they will have no qualms abolishing it, however, if it proves to be ineffective. Look, I don’t know, maybe the Voice will end up being really good. Dividing everybody up on their ethnicity might be the best thing Australia has ever seen. I doubt it. I think it will just add another layer of bureaucracy that will achieve very little for disadvantaged Indigenous folk. But I’m happy to be proven wrong.

As I said in a previous video, only people who identify as First Nations can vote in tomorrow’s election. As there are less than 3% of South Australia..

South Australians are due to have an election this weekend, no, not the state election, and no, not all South Australians will be allowed to vote, just some, based entirely on their ancestry. If you don’t fit the prescribed ethnicity, you can’t vote, well, maybe you can’t vote – I’ll get to that soon.

Those people I just showed you were some of the candidates for the six regions in the upcoming 2024 South Australian First Nations Voice Election! You may remember in last year’s Indigenous Voice referendum, South Australia got the second lowest number of Yes votes in the nation at around 35%. But the Government don’t care about your opinions and are pushing ahead with this state-based version instead.

Of course, the Guardian and others are reporting that there is dirty misinformation being spread online, like saying that South Australians don’t want this, which is a complete lie apparently. “Some social media users appeared to be confusing the South Australian voice and the upcoming election with last year’s federal voice,” the factcheckers said. The attorney general said it was a “very different proposition”. So never fear South Australians! What you voted for last year, has nothing to do with what a very small percentage of you will be allowed to vote for this weekend.

According to the First Nations Voice Election website, “Get ready to vote!’, remembering it’s on 16 March 2024. I’m sure you’re excited about voting, but there’s a few rules to remember. To vote in the Voice elections, you must be a First Nations person. According to the statistics, 2.47% of South Australians identify as Indigenous Australians, meaning that the overwhelming majority of tax-paying South Australians will have no say in this. It should also be noted that “Voting in the First Nations Voice election is not compulsory and there are no fines or penalties for not voting”. That’s odd, because according to the Australian Electoral Commission, voting is compulsory. “It shall be the duty of ..

I saw this article today on news.com.au titled, “‘Disgrace’ is everything wrong with Australia. The Spencer Leniu NRL racism storm highlights how wrong Australia has got its priorities.” It’s written by a lady by the name of Maddi Brennan-Mills. This is her Instagram page where she states: “Living on Dharawal country” (modern day Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay and so on). I think that one statement pretty much sums up her position on the issue. Her Instagram “link” links to the very article that I showed you before.

It should be noted that the article is labelled “Opinion”, so of course, we should keep that in mind. She states, “A young Torres Strait Islander man, Mam, who dedicates himself to his community, had to endure a racial slur”. He was called a monkey on the rugby field as I talked about in my previous video. She then states: “This situation is a stark reminder that racism remains deeply embedded in our society, a burden First Nations people carry every single day.”

But what got me, was what she said regarding Australian soccer captain Sam Kerr. She said, “Sam Kerr called a London police officer a ‘stupid, white bastard’ which by definition is not racism at all.” I’d just like to call BS on that, and I hope many of you would agree with me. I know what she’s getting at. Many academics of late are stating that people of colour face systemic exclusion and marginalisation based on historically rooted power imbalances and racial hierarchies that put white people at the top, and therefore, white people cannot experience racism. It’s BS, but they keep repeating it.

She continues, “While assumptions and stereotypes about white people do exist, this is considered racial prejudice, not racism – reverse racism is a myth.” Actually, I agree with her that reverse racism is a myth, because the whole idea of “reverse racism” is nonsensical in my opinion. Reverse racism is racism, and should be called as such. Saying that only white people can’t experience racism is i..

There’s an English word that you can find in any dictionary. This word children can say freely around one another. They can even say it in the classroom in front of the teacher, and there will be no reprisals or punishment. It’s a word that friends and family call my young daughter, a word that she likes, because she’s such a great climber. She can now do around 15 pull-ups, completely of her own volition. But if you’re a professional rugby league player, and use this word directed at a fellow rugby league player, you’ll be suspended for eight weeks.

The word of course, is monkey.

Spencer Leniu, a Sydney Roosters player in the NRL who was born in New Zealand and has Samoan heritage. He called opposition player, Brisbane Broncos Ezra Mam, who is of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, a monkey. “Spencer Leniu handed eight-week ban for calling Ezra Mam a 'monkey' in Vegas”. In his own words, he said he thought his slur against Mam was just “one brown man saying something to another brown man”.

I’m not at all suggesting people should go around calling people monkeys in an offensive way, but this is a rough sport. For example, in the very same hearing, Tayson Fakaosi was suspended for one game for performing a crusher tackle. According to the NRL, a crusher tackle is when a player “uses any part of his body forcefully to bend or apply unnecessary pressure to the head, neck or spinal column of the tackled player. In some crusher tackles, the full weight of the defender is applied in a dropping motion on the tackled player’s head and/or neck and/or spinal column.” So applying brutal force to a player’s head neck or spinal column results in a one-week suspension, but a word that kids say in the playground on the monkey bars, kids say in the classroom in front of their teachers, a word that my wife calls my daughter when she’s on her fifteenth pull-up, that word results in an eight week suspension on the rugby field.

Look, I know, context counts. I’m not sug..

Beloved Australian soccer captain Sam Kerr (well beloved to some, the media seem to love her. Social media? Not so much), has done something a little bit naughty. She uttered some not-so-nice words to a police officer in London early last year. First of all, no matter what side of politics you’re on, whether you’re woke or anti-woke, I don’t care, but I think nobody should be cancelled, or lose their careers over something they say. We’re all human. We all make mistakes. We sometimes say stupid things. So I’m not here campaigning for Sam Kerr to lose her job.

However, she did say something that other sports stars have lost their jobs over. What did she say? Well after a big night out, she reportedly threw up in a taxi and got into an altercation with the driver over the taxi fare, presumably over the cleaning fee, so the police were called and she allegedly called the police officer a “stupid white bastard”. However, it’s being reported that Kerr herself said she didn’t say that all, she said, “stupid white cop”. Either way, the intent is the same. She called the police officer “stupid”, as well as “white”, and consequently was charged with Racially Aggravated Harassment, which she could potentially go to jail for.

This of course resulted in the Progressive Left, or the Woke Left, or whatever you want to call them, their minds collectively imploded. You see, the Progressive Left are all about criminalising language, when it suits them. They are obsessed with historical oppression and identity politics. The only things that matter to them now are race, gender, and sexuality. They no longer focus on the real problems facing poor people, but instead turn their gaze to imagined microaggressions against over-privileged university graduates. And because Sam Kerr is a person of colour (I hate that term by the way. It sounds rather racist, don’t you think?), she’s of Indian descent (noting, she’s also of Caucasian descent, but that doesn’t seem to count), she’s a lesbi..

Beloved Australian soccer captain Sam Kerr (well beloved to some, the media seem to love her. Social media? Not so much), has done something a little bit naughty. She uttered some not-so-nice words to a police officer in London early last year. First of all, no matter what side of politics you’re on, whether you’re woke or anti-woke, I don’t care, but I think nobody should be cancelled, or lose their careers over something they say. We’re all human. We all make mistakes. We sometimes say stupid things. So I’m not here campaigning for Sam Kerr to lose her job.

However, she did say something that other sports stars have lost their jobs over. What did she say? Well after a big night out, she reportedly threw up in a taxi and got into an altercation with the driver over the taxi fare, presumably over the cleaning fee, so the police were called and she allegedly called the police officer a “stupid white bastard”. However, it’s being reported that Kerr herself said she didn’t say that all, she said, “stupid white cop”. Either way, the intent is the same. She called the police officer “stupid”, as well as “white”, and consequently was charged with Racially Aggravated Harassment, which she could potentially go to jail for.

This of course resulted in the Progressive Left, or the Woke Left, or whatever you want to call them, their minds collectively imploded. You see, the Progressive Left are all about criminalising language, when it suits them. They are obsessed with historical oppression and identity politics. The only things that matter to them now are race, gender, and sexuality. They no longer focus on the real problems facing poor people, but instead turn their gaze to imagined microaggressions against over-privileged university graduates. And because Sam Kerr is a person of colour (I hate that term by the way. It sounds rather racist, don’t you think?), she’s of Indian descent (noting, she’s also of Caucasian descent, but that doesn’t seem to count), she’s a lesbian (she has a Caucasian fiancée), and of course, she’s a woman, whatever that means. Nobody seems to be able to define it anymore. The point is, she ticks all the Woke Left’s boxes, so to speak. So when they heard she was charged with racism...

Even if the world decides that what Sam Kerr said wasn’t racist, it was still wrong. She is a role model. Many girls (and boys) look up to her. At the very least, she needs to apologise. She won’t, because that would be an admission of guilt. But in a perfect would, she might say, “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said what I said. I was drunk, but that’s no excuse. We should be nice to one another no matter what our cultural backgrounds. Racism is racism, and I was wrong to say what I said. Please forgive me.”

Call it double standards. Call it selective outrage. Call it hypocrisy. But one thing that is crystal clear, racism is only called out by the Progressive Left when they are the victim.

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Allégro by Emmit Fenn

Throughout history, there have always been men dressing up in women’s clothing as a form of entertainment, so-called drag queens in the modern vernacular. I’m not here to criticise what people do for a living, or do in their free time, however, I would classify this type of performance, especially of the burlesque-style, highly sexualised variety, as a form of entertainment for consenting adults. It’s not my cup of tea, but if you want to go along and watch a drag queen dancing or whatever on stage, well that’s up to you. But, I would not classify drag queens as a form of children’s entertainment.

When my kids were younger, my wife, or sometimes myself, would take my children along to the local library to their weekly, or bi-weekly, story time events, and they were quite good. There was usually a conservatively dressed female librarian, although sometimes there were men, who read a nice wholesome story to the children. The children enjoyed going because they could listen to a couple of nice stories, as well as play with the other children. The parents often enjoyed going because it was a chance for them to have a bit of a break and chat with the other parents or whatever.

But over the last year or so, the conservatively dressed librarian is slowly being replaced with drag queens at so-called Drag Queen Story Time events. No matter what side of politics you’re on, we have to all admit that Drag Queen Story Time is highly controversial. And it makes sense why. People typically view drag queens as a form of adult entertainment. Now that’s not me dissing drag queens. They’re free to do what they like, as long as it’s done in an appropriate setting. Obviously, the debate isn’t around the existence of drag queens, but rather, should drag queens be in the public library reading to children.

To me, an analogy would be a prostitute reading to the children. I’ve got nothing against prostitutes, each to their own, but it’s not appropriate for them to be reading to childre..

A few years ago, back during the dark days of the pestilence, I remember the university I worked for sending out an email with a link to a survey that all employees had to fill out. It asked whether we would be comfortable around coworkers and students who had not taken the prescribed medication. They were obviously probing for information to see whether they had the numbers to implement a mandate. This in itself means it wasn’t about health in their eyes, it was about popularity. Were there enough people on campus who would support them? If the prescribed medical procedure was vital to the survival of the university, then they needn’t have asked, they should have just dictated it. Thank God, sanity prevailed and they didn’t implement it. Enough of my colleagues responded in such a way that the university thought they would have gotten too much pushback. People power won the day.

However, the state government implemented a rule, stating that only those that took their medicine were allowed to attend coffee shops and the like. So although I was allowed to enter the university proper, I was forbidden from entering the university coffee shop. I was deemed unclean by the powers that be, a risk to everyone’s health. Even though I sat next to people in the office, I was not allowed to sit next to those very same people in the presence of coffee. Yes, it’s laughable when you look back at it. Honestly, I didn’t care. “Good!” I thought. I can save some money by not buying overpriced coffee and sandwiches. By the way, that cafe has since closed. The Government with their stupid rules destroyed them, as they did with many other small businesses around Australia.

As a university employee, I got off fairly lightly, but other workers didn’t fare so well. Many workers had to take the prescribed medicine or else lose their jobs. It was coercive, it was wrong, it was a breach of human rights, but at the time, if you dared say such a thing, you were shouted down and called any nu..

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have announced that police are not welcome to march in the parade this weekend. That doesn’t seem very inclusive, does it? For a group that’s entire existence is based on inclusivity, they seem to have missed the mark here: “The businesses with the highest rates of diversity and inclusion are the ones that win”. By not including anybody who identifies as a police officer, I guess they, and society, lose. In Australia, the inclusive acronym is LGBTQIA+. I guess they should add a P- to indicate that P is not allowed at the Mardi Gras, as in Police Officers, not urine, which of course is welcome, as it is every year. I’m joking people!

Anyway, the Australian acronym is pretty inclusive, but it’s got nothing on Justin Trudeau’s Canada: 2SLGBTQIA+. Canada is by definition, and by the length of their acronym, the most inclusive country in the world, unless of course you believe that ‘female spaces’ should be reserved for ‘biological females’ as suggested by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, then you’re a dastardly transphobe who is not welcome in uber-inclusive Canada. Pretty much anybody who identifies as conservative is not welcome in the most inclusive country in the world. It should be noted that Poilievre’s Conservative Party is steaming ahead in the polls for next year’s federal election, with Trudeau’s Liberal Party an increasingly distant second. Perhaps Canadians are getting a bit sick of mandatory inclusion.

Back to Australia. The reason the police are not welcome at the Mardi Gras this year is because a gay police officer, Senior Constable Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, murdered, allegedly, a gay couple, former television reporter Jesse Baird, and the man’s new boyfriend, Luke Davies, using his police-issued service pistol. Consequently, the board of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras issued a statement: “Our community needs space to grieve the loss of Jesse and Luke who, before this tragedy, would have been here celeb..