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Don’t panic! This blog has changed

My heart sinks. I have to master a new blogging system, and hope that it works. You see, the new blog will show only one paragraph of a post, and you must then click on it to read the rest of the post. I am not convinced that people do click through, but professionals tell me I am wrong.

Please prove me wrong. The new blog starts on Friday afternoon, and you will be confronted with a few changes.

This is what I am told are the delights to await you:





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ABC says police need 18C muzzle to stop mobs attacking them. UPDATE: Students betrayed

An ABC presenter actually claims that we need 18C to stop police from saying things that will get them attacked by Aboriginal mobs, as they were in Kalgoorlie.

Don’t believe me? Then watch:

Bravo, Greg Sheridan for calling this out.

UPDATE

No surprise that the Human Rights Commission is a menace, bending over backwards to strip members of one “race” of their rights.

Hedley Thomas:

Freedom of Information disclosure to students accused of ­racism...

A “coveted” invitation from Obama that Turnbull should reject

The invitation is “coveted”? I’d say it’s exactly the kind of invitation best avoided for fear of being asked to do too much by a President who will soon be safely out the door, without responsibility for what he demands others do:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure on the world stage to take substantial new action on the migrant crisis after Australia scored a coveted invitation to a refugee summit hosted by US President Barack Obama.

Fairfax...

Abbott makes up with Hanson

Tony Abbott catches up with Pauline Hanson, who has blamed him for helping to get her (unfairly) jailed. It seems there is now a mutual respect, and the media Left is choking.

First the very kind 60 Minutes profile and now this. Hanson is being affirmed, not demonised, and her brand will grow stronger - provided her team sticks together.

How much have the Chinese paid their mate Sam?

This is red hot. Dastyari must say how much Chinese interests have sponsored him and explain what effect that’s had on his pro-China spruiking:

Labor Senator Sam Dastyari pledged to respect China’s position on the South China Sea at an election campaign press conference he held with a Chinese political donor who had previously paid his legal bills.

He has also urged Australia to drop its opposition to China’s air defence zone in the contested region.

The...

How can this joke be a put-down? How weak for Target to bat-cave

People are really, really now looking for offence:

Target Australia has withdrawn a Batgirl T-shirt aimed at young girls following an outcry over a “sexist message” emblazoned on the front to do with dry cleaning and other household chores…

“Batgirl to-do list: Dry clean cape, wash batmobile, fight crime, save the world,” it reads.

Mary Sheargold, of Bentleigh, said [on Facebook] she thought the message was “really inappropriate” and...

Column - Mad green disease is killing us

AUSTRALIA has developed a death wish. Why this green mania to make us poor?

On Wednesday, Victorian Premier Daniel ­Andrews announced he would permanently ban fracking for coal-seam gas.

Even conventional gas drilling — done safely here for half a century — would be banned to at least 2020.

Andrews could point to not a scrap of credible science to back these bans.

He cited only the fear spread by green alarmists: “This is the first ban of its...

Book tours gallery

The book’s amazing world tour continues. It has now dropped in with reader Barry on Hobart’s Despard Gallery:

The artist is Graham Lang, who has a new exhibition.

As it happens, I have been to this very gallery and had a lovely chat with director Steven Joyce. Joyce was very protective and proud of one artist he has nurtured for many years, symbolist Dale Richards, whose very distinctive pictures you can find here. In fact, I did try to buy one from...

Column - Flannery cooked on hot rocks

ANOTHER green dream has turned into a nightmare — at least for investors still dumb enough to believe Tim Flannery.

Energy company Geodynamics has now closed its geothermal power project in South Australia’s far north. This green technology involved drilling several kilometres down to hot rocks, which would then superheat water and drive generators.

“The technology worked,” insisted Geodynamics boss Chris Murray. But the huge cost of the technology and...

Algerian stabs French policewoman in throat

Another attack in France:

A FEMALE police officer has been stabbed in the throat at a police station in the French city of Toulouse…

A man, reported to be of Algerian origin, tried to grab the officer’s gun and it is understood that when he failed, he pulled out a knife, repeatedly stabbing her in the throat.

The woman is in a serious condition…

I think we’re reaching a point where it almost doesn’t matter now what the motive is - or is said to be. An...