I do believe it was rigged in some way. No president can lose so many states and still win an election. Yes, I think Trump did win. Did you vote for him? He’s not my favorite person, but he is better than Biden. He is brash and says things that aren’t politically correct but he gets things done which is what we need.”
A pre-emptive strike by One Nation to register dozens of website addresses that could be used in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum campaign has backfired, with several of the party’s new acquisitions set to be suspended…
The domain licence administrator, which was made aware of the websites after the ABC uncovered 37 domains that appeared to be registered to One Nation, will suspend several of One Nation’s domains containing a .au address.
There are people who say I’m not the GOAT (greatest of all time) because I didn’t pass Court’s record, which she achieved before the ‘Open era’ began in 1968. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want that record. Obviously I do. But day to day, I’m really not thinking about her.”
THE historical reasons are flimsy but St Mary of the Cross (Mackillop) is patroness of the Brisbane archdiocese. And this is how she’s honoured in St Stephen’s Chapel in the city’s cathedral precinct. Conventional post-conciliar neo-iconoclasm, the work is already smashed for two reasons. First, to extirpate any remnants of Catholic orthodoxy in the gazers. They are demoralised into identifying with Mary Mackillop horizontally as a creature becoming in the world, not vertically as a saint who transcended it. Second, the desire to throw out this hideous object is neutered by the feeling that it already has been. That’s precisely why modern ecclesiastical art and design have lasted longer than they should have: they survive because of the very apathy they canonise. More than the last word in tyre-swan craft, tree-trunk Mary also exemplifies the aesthetic despotism of the age. Don’t look for beauty; face the misery. The difference between ‘forward-looking’ liberals in the Church and so-called traditionalists is that the latter – accused of looking back – are actually doing the apostolic thing of looking all around. Like the little ones instinctively do.
Pelosi has received a lot of bipartisan, Republican support for this trip. One Republican, of course, denounced her. Donald Trump slammed Pelosi’s trip and said she would make everything worse. In a crowded field, this is one of the most pathetic and dishonourable of Trump’s interventions. There is not a single moment when Trump puts anything, even the national interest against Chinese intimidation, ahead of his momentary personal political interests and vendettas.
Sheridan’s entire column is about how everything is in fact worse. The world, he writes, “moved a few steps closer” to “war of unimaginable consequences.” How did that happen? “The current crisis was provoked, not caused, by Pelosi’s decision to visit Taiwan.” So Trump was correct but Sheridan doesn’t like it because the former President won’t sing along with Uniparty muppets who just lost a 20-year war. Adults know that a moral right to do a thing doesn’t obviate the discretion governing when. Beijing’s description of her visit as “manic, irresponsible and highly irrational” was accurate. Sheridan’s heroine is in the news today for saying her “connection” to all this is founded on having been told as a girl that “if I dug a hole deep enough we would reach China.”
Who would’ve thought that a young woman born in Afghanistan and a daughter of a refugee would be standing in this chamber today. One hundred years ago, let alone 10 years ago, would this parliament have been this accepting? 100 years ago, let alone 10 years ago, would this parliament accept a woman choosing a hijab to be elected? I think it’s unfortunate that I can’t claim to be the first person who has worn Muslim attire inside those same chambers.”
