There has never, ever been vaccine logic during the current pandemia. There certainly isn't now. While Victorians are grappling with new dictatorial powers seemingly about to be passed by its Parliament, the State to its immediate north has entered the vaccine twilight zone, with medical apartheid now extended indefinitely.
Covid has thrown up heroes. Don't expect them to be acknowledged as such by the Covid class.
The NSW Parliament considers granting a right to assisted dying. To the old and infirm. We are killing them off already.
Three economists have written a cracking book on the Covid affair. Gigi Foster is at the University of New South Wales. She and her colleagues have sought to explain the madness of the past nearly two years. The book should be required reading for those who value freedom and sanity. A public policy master class. It was an honour to review it.
Hope Down Under? Australian Bishops Slow to Implement Traditionis Custodes
Written by Kathy Thompson
Pope Francis's recent Motu Proprio, Traditionis Custodes, has been seen as many things. Certainly it has been seen as a major and sad setback for traditional Catholicism and the celebration of the Old Mass. How is it playing out in Australia? Will the Bishops play ball? Republished from The Remnant.
The coming of age of identity politics in Australia and other Western nations, seen in particular during and after debates over abortion, euthanasia and same sex marriage, has ushered in a new era of selective bigotry, demonisation, the "othering" of opponents and censorship. Not to mention a new prejudice based upon class. All this has occurred in societies that pride themselves on their liberalism.
This week saw the surreal scapegoating of a visitor to Byron Bay who was authorised to travel there and who, testing positive for Covid, "caused" a lockdown. The town's hopes for economic recovery were crushed yet again by Macquarie St fiat. But there is more. The woman was ... vaccinated!
