Author Archives: andrew

It’s foreign to Australia all right!

Posted on May 12, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.  Foreign Minister Penny Wong spearheads the Labor government’s antisemitic tilt by ordering Australia to vote against Israel’s interests at the UN, supporting a motion to consider establishing a Palestinian state. That’s an attitude foreign to Australia, all … Continue reading →

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It’s the energy, stupid!

Posted on May 6, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban It took political columnist (ex ABC & Nine) Chris Uhlmann to sharpen the point that energy in the economy is the equivalent of oxygen in the air. In his May 4 column in the Weekend Australian (his … Continue reading →

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Gaza’s ‘innocents’ back Hamas carnage

Posted on May 4, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban As Israel movies in on the last of the Hamas terrorists embedded among the unarmed permanent and temporary residents in Rafah, the US and its echo in Australia, are demanding that Israel hold off. That Israel not … Continue reading →

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The Resolute desk needs a resolute occupant

Posted on May 1, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Like others perhaps, I used to think that the ‘Resolute desk’ in the Oval Office of the White House was named to inspire the occupant to be ‘resolute’. A pleasing idea. If only … instead, it is … Continue reading →

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Arrest that man

Posted on April 28, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban That young woman, a student at some US college, screaming and banging a metal pot on a metal barricade reminded me of me at age three, screaming and banging on the door of the bathroom where my … Continue reading →

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Moral disarmament of the West by woke

Posted on April 25, 2024 by andrew

In a crowded function room in the Sydney CBD, British writer, author & commentator, BRENDAN O’NEILL, described the unfunny side of woke as an attack on Western society: its moral disarmament. He was here as a guest of the Centre … Continue reading →

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How Penny turned into a farthing

Posted on April 18, 2024 by andrew

Wong is wrong, writes MICHAEL GREEN, embarrassing Australia and diminishing herself.  In Senator Penny Wong’s speech to the ANU National Security College “Securing our Future”, on  9 April 2024, after acknowledging very important persons, Wong moves on to the now … Continue reading →

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Swiss grannies upstage Greta, court rules climate ‘rights’

Posted on April 12, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban There is a mountain of irony in a group of four elderly women in Switzerland being concerned about the threat of extreme heat caused by climate change. They evidently think that countries can affect their own climate … Continue reading →

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The Conformist – cancel culture & Fascism

Posted on April 8, 2024 by andrew

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece, adapted from the 1951 Alberto Moravia novel is a case study in conformism under a Fascist regime. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a conformist mid-level Fascist functionary in Mussolini’s Italy who is ordered … Continue reading →

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Truth Telling , circular arguments and colonialism

Posted on March 30, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Just when you thought Australians had voted firmly against the voice and its entire grievance baggage, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says she is in active discussions with cabinet to develop a model for a ‘Truth-Telling’ process, … Continue reading →

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