Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 5

Turnbull must declare his Plan B on gay marraige

It is now critical that the Liberals and Nationals get Malcolm Turnbull to promise that Plan B is not a free vote in Paliament:

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s “people’s vote” on same-sex marriage is set to be scuttled, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten preparing to kill the plebiscite…

The Labor leader said blocking the plebiscite was a live option…

“I’m worried Malcolm Turnbull will just stuff it up,’’ Mr Shorten said…

“He stuffed up the republic...

Book in Rome

My book is on an odyssey, visiting Alaska, Bath, the skulls of Montpellier, York Minster, Shanghai, Corsica, Croatia, Ho Chi Minh City, Santorini, London, Scotland, Ithaca, the Bay of Naples, Lake Como, Dubrovnik, Fiji, Aileron, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the Andes, the Northern Territory, the Whitsundays, Kalgoorlie, Condabri, Australia’s most Left-wing Parliament, the Katharine River Mango Farm, a Newcastle christening, a Penrith hospital,...

You pay, they trash. The ABC at it again

The ABC was created and funded by taxpayers to broadcast things that would raise the cultural tone.

But then the Left took over and used the ABC to celebrate barbarity and to vilify conservatives, as Pauline Hanson discovered long ago.

Tony Thomas says ABC is now at it again:

On July 3, a day after the election, the ABC TV News website ran a story by ABC reporter Kristian Silva: “Election 2016: Will Pauline Pantsdown return after Pauline Hanson’s success...

What illness is causing these bizarre slaughters?

Rowan Dean:

The world of mental health and wellbeing has been rocked to its core by a bizarre global outbreak of inexplicable nervous breakdowns. Researchers are struggling to find a common cause or factor that may link or in some way help explain what is behind this mysterious epidemic of mental, or psychiatric, illnesses. Thus far experts remain baffled as to any similarities between the cases, which to date have been reported with their own specific...

“Former Liberal” is right

Immediately unconvincing, before even considering the arguments:

A former Liberal leader, a prominent comedian and an award-winning novelist are among those who have signed an open letter calling on the federal government to abandon plans to cut unemployment payments.

Sounds like the start of a joke: “A former Liberal leader, comedian and a novelist walk into a bar...” And it is a joke, because as soon as you see The Age ballyhoo such a petition with the...

Tips for Sunday, August 28

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The tyranny of hurt feelings

Hedley Thomas reveals the great danger of an absurd law that makes hurt feelings a reason to censor and punish other people:

Comprehensive medical reports question the severity and reasons for a stress disorder affecting an indigenous university staffer who is seeking $250,000 damages from students in a section 18C ­racial hatred case.

The medical reports, introduced to the controversial case as formal public exhibits by the Queensland University of...

Book dines at Stein’s

My book is on an odyssey, visiting Alaska, Bath, the skulls of Montpellier, York Minster, Shanghai, Corsica, Croatia, Ho Chi Minh City, Santorini, London, Scotland, Ithaca, the Bay of Naples, Lake Como, Dubrovnik, Fiji, Aileron, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the Andes, the Northern Territory, the Whitsundays, Kalgoorlie and Condabri, Queensland, before invading Australia’s most Left-wing Parliament - an experience which convinced one reader at...

Crisis discovered again. Solutions not

Eleven months into the job, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull discovers we have a debt crisis:

Turnbull has unveiled the central mission of his new government and the obligations falling on the coming parliament — it is a moral appeal for all MPs to confront, admit and act on Australia’s unsustainable financial position…

Turnbull says: “The essential obligation of this parliament has got to be coming to terms with the economic reality of our situation,...

If the Greens can’t take credit, same-sex marriage can’t happen

Here is more evidence that the Greens really are the party for the self-obsessed and selfish, for whom it is more important to make a gesture than a difference.  As I’ve often argued, this is a the party of permanent adolescents for whom - as is fashionable - it is more important to seem than to do. And thus also more important to take credit than to quietly succeed:

Incoming Liberal MP Tim Wilson on the Greens’ decision to block a same-sex marriage...