Kathy

[coolhandluke @Glenn02936110]

Albo is a bit quiet today he's counting the money from Hamas for his support and it's taking a while to wash the blood from the bank notes.

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Big shoutout to the Indian community in Mernda, Melbourne.

You are filthy pigs.

Shame on you for dumping all of your rubbish into our waterways after your Indian Festival last Saturday.

You would want to get down there ASAP & collect all of your trash otherwise I will happily identify you & you will be marched down there to clean it up.

Aussie waterways are not a dumping ground for your rubbish.
We will not tolerate you disrespecting our land & country.

So many of us work our asses off to protect our native wildlife & you use their habitat as a tip & put our wildlife in danger.

Absolute fcking disgrace 😡

Multiculturalism has failed 🚫

[V 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 Anti-War. Pro-Peace. @Valdus33]

@OMGTheMess It's going according to their plan.

[Anthony The Colonial @Boldsilver99]

Labor imports People that support Hamas Terrorists

One day we are gunna pay with a lot of dead Australians with policy’s like this
#hamasattack

[Hotblack Desiato @ACMCalder]

@Kate3015 The good news is that Chris Bowen's solar cancer is spreading faster than ever giving us some of the most expensive electricity in the world. No, they aren't actually fools. This is a deliberate plan. Picture Glenrowan West Solar near us. Prime farm land.

[Stan Stucoski @SStucoski]

@OMGTheMess sorry snowflake..Tonys right

[Rosita Díaz @RositaDaz48]

Ship is sinking with those three at the helm.

[Daniel Trevillian @DanielTrevilli1]

@MilonaGreg Nailed it 👍

[TheCookerKing 🫕🤴❤️🇦🇺🚫🤡🚫💉🚫💩🚫🐑🚫😷 @John92318516]

Instead of getting the economy under control this fucker has gone on a worldwide spending spree with some rented escort! All at the expense of the Australian taxpayer!
Then, the LIBS are condemned for having to clean up Labors mess, yet again.
Imagine the mess in Victoria alone?

[Come_on_man 🇦🇺 @TruthdriverOn]

Labor are out of excuses, the mess is theirs and they never had a plan for the economy and have no idea how to fix their mess now, these fools are done!!!
GET RID OF THE LABOR FAILURE AND DISGRACEFUL MESS!!! #auspol

[Steve Terra Australis 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷 @TheLamarckian]

@macsween_prue @AlboMP @PeterDutton_MP Coz Xi my mate
https://t.co/4s2YCGUW1b

[Michaelia 8:32 @Mike77463289]

@QBCCIntegrity @SenKatyG @AlboMP @australian @9NewsAUS @newscomauHQ @FinancialReview @guardian @7NewsAustralia @abcnews @10NewsFirst #GetRidOfLabor vote them and evil globalist 🤡🤡 like @SenKatyG out!!!!

They are destroying Australia

[Jimmy TBF 🥶 ☠️🪃 (NUNYA)🪃 @jimmyblackfella]

@nogulagsagain

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Unveiling the Crisis: The Shocking Truth Behind Australia's Education Decline

Strong evidence for one of the main reasons behind the decline of Australian education has been exposed this week.

The benchmarking analysis released by Learning First chief executive Ben Jensen has laid bare the inadequacy of our science curriculum compared to others around the world.

This is an analysis the government should have done, and now we know why it hasn’t.

The report shows that by the time Australian students finish Year 8, they will have been provided less than half the science content than the average of these other jurisdictions including Canada, England, Japan, Singapore and the United States.

In physics, our curriculum has 56 per cent less content and in biology, almost 70 per cent less content.

So much for the ‘clever country’.

I attended dinner with some business leaders last night and asked what their priority was for the government to address – and almost all of them nominated improving education standards and outcomes.

In addition to fixing the glaring shortfalls in the national curriculum, we also need better trained and better supported teachers.

They also need more comprehensive training and support in the face of rising discipline issues in classrooms and increasing school ‘refusal’.

We used to have dedicated teacher colleges in Australia, but since this was transferred to universities the decline in education outcomes and standards have followed suit.

And as we’ve seen last week, some teachers are more interested in recruiting activists among their students and indoctrinating them in radical causes.

They’re teaching kids what to think, not how to think.

Let’s get back to basics and teach kids what they need to know.

[Adem 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @Adem_Flok]

@SharriMarkson How would the MSM react if Scomo ever did this?
They’d call him a mysoginist and demand he resign but this is Labor the MSM ❤️ them and supported them in the last election They can do as they like unchecked
#ClareMustResign #DreyfussMustResign #WheresAlbo #auspol

[Sassy Diana McQueen @DuchessMcQueen]

@AlboMP

[Roo Mint @Roo_Mint1]

@AlboMP Have you sacked @ClareONeilMP yet weak boy ?

[Follow the money @AnnHemmings1]

@AlboMP https://t.co/GLUUVrr14Y

[Ocarina Jones 🇮🇱 🐝 @OcarinaJones]

The spectator
The hypocrisy of the pro-Palestine mob
Damian Coory 6 December 2023

Something that seems to have escaped the attention of the left, so eager are they to condemn a war by a perceived ‘oppressed’ group (Palestinians) by a perceived ‘oppressor’ (Israel), is the horrific loss of life in the Yemeni civil war that’s been raging for more than nine years.

According to the UN, the war has resulted in the deaths of more than 150,000 people from direct violence and a quarter of a million more from its indirect effects. Four million people have been displaced. The charity Save the Children estimates 85,000 children have died from starvation alone, because of the war.

Cue the blue-hair-cropped street marchers, ANTIFA, the Socialist Alliance, manipulated high-school students, immature university undergraduate ‘social justice’ lovers, and the rest of the Australian left! Hit the streets! Let the world know of the horrific human carnage! The ‘genocide’!

Alas, there is silence.

So what’s the difference between this conflict and the war in Gaza? Are Jews and Israel so great an enemy of the left (and their far-far-right friends) that this is all just about raw racism and anti-Semitism? Partly, perhaps.

But the real enemy is far wider and larger and to see this reaction as all about sick Jew-hatred is to miss that wider picture. It’s an attack on us. It’s yet another opportunistic attack by the left upon civilisation and the West.

‘Complex’ is too simple a word to explain the Kraken-from-hell that the Yemeni civil war has become. But primarily it’s a battle between the Houthi movement, a Shia Islamist organisation that emerged in the 1990s from Yemen’s most north-western ‘state’, that borders Saudi Arabia and the original Yemeni government. The Houthis emerged originally as an opposition force to Yemen’s then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, accusing him of corruption. Saleh was allied to the Saudis and the US. The Houthis seem nice. In 2003, they adopted the slogan of the southern Lebanese-based terrorist group Hezbollah, which, like me, you may need a quick refresher on. It reads, ‘God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Cursed be the Jews, Victory to Islam.’

Things really heated-up in late 2014, when the Houthis took over the capital city, Sanaa, and then the whole government. In March 2015 they declared a major mobilisation to overthrow then-president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and drive into southern provinces. And here’s where it gets more than a bit complicated. During this 2015 offensive, the Houthis were joined, now as allies, by forces loyal to former President Saleh, the man they originally sought to oust in the early 2000’s. They apparently decided he wasn’t too corrupt or US-friendly to do business with, after all. As they pushed south in March 2015, it took no time at all for the newer President Hadi to do a runner. He’d fled to Saudi Arabia by the end of the month.

And that’s when the Saudis got involved more overtly. A coalition led by them, launched a counter-attack of air strikes against the Houthis and restored the former government.

Why does any of this matter to us as summer sun, beaches, beer, too much food and Christmas loom? Well, for two reasons: firstly, it’s probably good to understand that this is all part of the ongoing proxy war and battle for Middle-Eastern political and economic supremacy that is constant between Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Iran. If you want to understand any Middle East conflict – and there’s likely going to be a few of them in coming years – they all need to be understood through this Saudi-vs-Iran lens.

There’s been no direct involvement by Iran in this war, however, Iran’s delightful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been assisting Houthis with ‘military training’, logistics and arms supplies. And there have been activities by Hezbollah and the IRGC’s guerrilla-style special Quds forces in Yemen, which the Saudis think is all part of Iranian attempts to set up an Iranian satellite state in Yemen.

And this could have massive implications for the stability of the entire Middle East, and us as a result. If Yemen becomes an Iranian satellite state, the Saudis believe it will become a base for ballistic missiles aimed at all the Gulf Cooperation Council member states (namely, Saudi, Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait). So this is kind of big.

The second reason we really need to care about this while the cricket’s on and the ham is being carved, is that a war this insane and complex, is a great reminder of everything we, as Australians, take way-too-much for granted.

That relative peace, prosperity and civility we wake up to every day, is not the norm for planet Earth. It didn’t just pop out of nowhere. And – more importantly – it isn’t something that will stick around unless we value it and protect it.

And right now we live in a culture that is almost obsessive about criticising and condemning everything that Western Civilisation stands for. A little self-criticism is healthy and necessary, even. Too much becomes a destructive cancer that will kill us. I repeat: Will. Kill. Us.

And we (by which I meant the dominant lefty trendy Aussie intelligentsia class, rather than your average Speccie reader) have gone way too far in recent years. This is clearly illustrated now by the hypocrisy of the reaction to the Gaza war, and the silence on more deadly conflicts like Yemen.

Why the outrage and the marching in the streets? It’s not only because the Jews are involved and (for some bizarre reason that will always baffle me) people on the left, far-right and Islamists, all have a disproportionate obsession about the Jews and their historical misdeeds. It’s because Israel represents the West, and the West is evil because it ‘ate all the pies’. The West is the oppressor.

And that’s pretty much all it took to get the left marching alongside neo-Nazis.

But the West didn’t eat all the pies that belonged to anyone else. There were no pies. There were some ingredients to make pies, in the ground, but no skills or ingenuity to extract them. There were some systems of government and trade that would enable a pie or two to be cobbled together if people stopped fighting long enough, but there was no system of government or economics that freed as many people and extracted as much value for everyone to share as Western Civilisation offered. And there were spots of genius scattered about the East and Middle East that, had they been in more fertile ground would have flourished and lasted far longer than they did. As much as the poser intellectuals and academics pump themselves up with self-importance by complicating things and pretending they see ‘depth and nuance’ that we mere deplorables cannot, the truth of the matter is simply this: the West worked out how to make the pies, set up a system to share the pies, and keep the peace in pie-land better than anyone else.

Now there were many bad things done along the way to achieve the many many many good things that liberal democracy and free market capitalism have given the world. But the solution isn’t to destroy what’s been achieved. The solution is to protect what was hard-won at all costs and move to create a better world, from that starting point.

But we’re not doing this. Instead we’re falling for the age-old lie of the left, that only revolution can ‘fix’ things, and that we must tear everything down to rebuild anew. A dangerous untruth that should not be given a second thought or the light of a moment’s consideration. And we’ve gone a step further into the madness: we’re giving Islamist Jihad ideology a second thought. An ideology that not only wants Israel wiped off the map, but all Jews, all non-Muslims, and all moderate Muslims (i.e.: the Judeo-Christian-origin West and our liberal civilisations).

And so our descent into the madness of hyper-liberalism – allowing the enemies of freedom to use our freedoms to attack us – deepens even further.

We need to put the brakes on soon. The cliff’s edge looms.