The Twitter Tweets   The twits on twitter tweet to us Like sores disgorging social pus Their singular voice makes out to be The voice of all democracy They cluster round each social cause Like blowflies round communal sores And tweet their venom to us all Poisoning us with thinking small But hidden behind the keyboard keys Is a pimply faced uncertainty With…

CFMEU pro Adani Peter Westmore and Patrick Byrne, in their joint editorial in the June 1, 2019, edition of News Weekly, say that “far-left unions such as the CFMEU” were involved in a concerted national campaign against Adani. I wish to point out that the CFMEU was supporting Adani and the coal industry. In the article, “CFMEU vows to back more pro-coal rallies”…

Patrick McStuttles’ culinary excursion You may have missed it in the East but, in WA, our State Labor Government recently tried to implement The Crayfish Manifesto, by snorkel-barrelling rock lobsters. During the fishy affair, Labor closed down Parliament and turned it into “The People’s Restaurant”. The ALP’s half-baked bean counters cooked up a slogan for their Narelle & Neville Nibbler: “No matter what…

  UNDER FIRE IN SOUTH AFRICA by Schalk Visagie Christian Liberty Books, Cape Town Paperback: 318 pages Price: AUD$41.95 Reviewed by John Elsegood In the Book of Ephesians, we are told about having to wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers of darkness. In fact, a South African police officer, Lieutenant Colonel Schalk Visagie, did both,…

THE BIRDMAN’S WIFE by Melissa Ashley Affirm Press, South Melbourne Paperback: 384 pages Price: AUD$17.99 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel As a child in primary school, my peers and I joined the Gould League, a not-for-profit organisation whose aims were to increase awareness of and preserve bird species. The league was named after John Gould, a famous 19th-century British ornithologist,…