Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 6

Super savers not just taxed but deceived and abused

Grace Collier on the Government’s hang-the-savers war on superannuation:

...unless our stuffed superannuation system is fixed, Scott Morrison said on radio this week, he will find it pretty hard to look his “kids in the eye and tell them they’ve got to saddle a higher debt because someone who had a very big income wanted to pay less tax”.

This “someone” with a “very big income” who wants to “pay less tax” is how the Treasurer refers nowadays to self-funded...

We are paying the Human Rights Commission to exaggerate race hate and impose apartheid

Chris Merritt and a taxpayer-funded lynch mob out to destroy free speech and impose apartheid:

Tim Soutphommasane, the Race Discrimination Commissioner ... encouraged people to complain about a cartoon by Bill Leak that appeared in [The Australian] newspaper…

The commissioner advised the public that complaints should be directed to the organisation where he works, the Australian Human Rights Commission.

His attempt to drum up work for the commission was...

How Turnbull could destroy the Liberals to save his pride

Labor is unikely to destroy the Turnbull Government. No, the most likely agent of destruction is Malcolm Turnbull himself.

Turnbull already seems to hate the job. He is not hailed as the savior he imagined. He flopped in the election and is mocked even by his own side, which must lacerate a man with such a sensitive pride. His two great allies in the leadership bid - Treasurer Scott Morrison and Loyal Deputy Julie Bishop - are now distancing themselves from...

Turnbull unplugged

From a new book The Turnbull Gamble, by Wayne Errington and Peter Van Onselen, first, this fascinating background to Malcolm Turnbull’s disastrous “victory” speech on election night:

As the Prime Minister surveyed the wreckage around him, friends had to persuade him to make any sort of election-night appearance…

It was after midnight when he finally took to the podium at Sydney’s Wentworth Hotel, and his remarks were not directed to the public who had ridden...

Baird dared voters, Big mistake

Thursday:

I don’t think it is wise for a politician to issue this invitation, especially in the context of seeming headstrong:

The Premier [Mike Baird] said “of course there will be (a backlash)” from the greyhound ban, but voters “will have their right, come election-day in 2019 to pass judgment on decisions we’ve made”.

Today:

A run of controversial policy decisions and hospital scandals has seen support for the NSW government crash to leave Labor...

Tips for Saturday, August 27

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Blue no more

A dapper Tony Abbott gave a most interesting presentation today. There was something different about him.

More to come. 

How the Left has taken over SBS

The taxpayer-funded SBS was set up to be a multicultural broadcaster for migrants particularly, and - of course - was not meant to be biased.

It has instead been taken over by the Left and used as a taxpayer-funded political soap box, as this sample of yesterday’s offerings demonstrates:

Same blatant and preachy Leftist bias in what the SBS misleadingly calls its ”comedy” site:

What is Communications Minister Mitch Fifield doing to stop this abuse of...

Why the assumption that taxpayers should just play breadwinner?

But isn’t it fair to ask why someone chooses to have eight children she cannot raise, unless taxpayers - who weren’t consulted - hand over $1000 a week?

Melbourne mother of eight Helen Liumaihetau thinks Scott Morrison has his priorities wrong by ­attacking the culture of welfare ­dependency in Australia.

Like many, she has been doing it hard and could not survive without government help. Half her government payments go towards feeding her children.

Ms...

Turnbull sells out free speech with an argument that would work in North Korea

John Roskam on Malcolm Turnbull’s surprisingly limited “priorities”:

The spectacle of Malcolm Turnbull arguing passionately for higher taxes on self-funded retirees while saying the reform of laws restricting freedom of speech in Australia was not a priority sits uneasily with what he said on the night he became prime minister.

In the evening of September 15, 2015, he laid down the measure against which his time as PM should be judged. Turnbull said, “This...