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Howard remembers

Tim Blair gives two examples of John Howard’s astonishing memory for names and faces.

That man was born for politics.

Tips for Sunday, August 14

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UPDATE

Via reader Magpie:

Touch Bill Leak and it’s on

I was at the News Corp awards night and heard several most excellent speeches - particularly from the head of News Corp, Robert Thomson, and the editor--in-chief of The Australian, Paul Whittaker, both defying the enemies of free speech and the trolls of PC. I also heard the applause given to cartoonist Bill Leak.

A word of advice to the Australian Press Council and the Human Rights Commission. Defend free speech.

PS: Is it not Orwellian that we should...

The ABS team pools its talent

The great Rowan Dean:

Here at ABS Innovations Pty Ltd, our crack team of agile innovators (motto: “there’s never been a more exciting time to be a statistic") are delighted to share with you some of our recent successes:

The ABS Australian Census Website

Our $10 million data collecting system which we developed under the helpful guidance of specialist design team Hawke, O’Dwyer, McCormack, Kalish & Turnbull for the Australian 2016 Census is already...

It’s not all about you, guys. Stop the posing and study the evidence

Kerryn Pholi in the latest Spectator Australia, in news agencies now, on the #indigenousdads campaign against Bill Leak’s recent cartoon, capturing beautifully the onanism of identity politics today:

A few intrepid souls suggested that the #indigenousdads seemed to be missing the point, while a hard-hearted few, myself included, saw the campaign as gobsmackingly narcissistic and callous.

Leak’s cartoon depicted the awful state of Aboriginal family...

Turnbull the timid

Terry McCrann on the gutless believe-in-nothing populism of the Turnbull Government:

(C)onfronted with the largely media-driven hysteria over the so-called failure by the banks ... to ‘pass on’ the full 25-point Reserve Bank official rate cut, [Turnbull] folded like a cheap suit and moved indeed to place himself at the very head of the wave.

Even more shamefully — and worse, self-destructively both to good policy and good politics over the remaining,...

Bomb blast in Thailand. UPDATE: Wave of bombings

Bomb blasts in Thailand, with suspicions already that Muslim insurgents were responsible:

“Double-tap” bomb explosions outside a neighbourhood bar Thursday night killed one woman and wounded at least 19 people in the Prachuap Khiri Khan province resort…

Reporters on the scene said via Twitter two bombs hidden in plant pots 50 metres apart were detonated by mobile phones at about 10pm and 10.20…

The second bomb exploded 20 minutes after the first. This...

Modern “diversity”: no Buddhists or Jews may apply

This is the opposite of diversity. I mean, can Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddhists apply?

The AFL is offering 10 “diversity trainee” positions worth $34,000 a year exclusively to Muslim youth as part of a Federal Government-funded program.

Why is the Turnbull Government promoting one faith above all others?

Richo gives up on Turnbull

Graham Richardson on the fall of Malcolm Turnbull:

In less than a year an electorate too accustomed to electing duds has realised this bloke has not a ­remote clue how to lift them or the economy out of the doldrums…

In incredibly quick succession, dramas around Rudd’s doomed bid for the top job at the UN and a hastily convened and twice fouled-up royal commission had many of us in despair. How is it possible that failing to support Rudd was allowed to...

Human Rights Commission destroys two of our most important human rights

Chris Merritt is correct. The race discrimination commissioner is hopeless biased and has confirmed that the semi-judicial Human Rights Commission is acting both as policeman and judge - as well as witch-hunter-in-chief:

Tim Soutphommasane has ­encouraged people to lodge complaints with the commission about Bill Leak’s cartoon last week depicting an Aboriginal ­policeman returning a delinquent Aboriginal youth to his equally delinquent Aboriginal father.

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