Entries from BatesLine linkblog tagged with 'Australia'

Old Brisbane Album | Gateway Bridge and Queensland corruption | Facebook

Old Brisbane Album | Gateway Bridge and Queensland corruption | Facebook A fascinating post and comments from April 12, 2022, in a Facebook group called Old Brisbane Album. The item is a magazine ad highlighting the opening of the Gateway...

Ash Salisbury -- My Aussie Journal

Ash Salisbury -- My Aussie Journal A US-based Australian citizen, Ash Salisbury was unable to return home for over a year to see her parents and her boyfriend because of the two-week hotel quarantine period imposed by Australia. A window...

Australian politics explainer: Gough Whitlam's dismissal as prime minister

Australian politics explainer: Gough Whitlam's dismissal as prime minister Australian constitutional law professor Anne Twomey explains the 1975 events that many characterize as a constitutional crisis and which the Australian Left has seen as a conspiracy by Queen Elizabeth and/or...

New South Wales Rural Fire Service: Fires Near Me

New South Wales Rural Fire Service: Fires Near Me This is an interactive map showing the extent of the burned area and the status of fires in New South Wales and neighboring parts of Victoria and Queensland. Here is the...

Australian polling is broken: here's how to fix it

"Australian polling is broken: here's how to fix itThe last 50 or 60 Newspolls showed Labor comfortably ahead. What if, in reality, Labor was at best level pegging or even behind? How has this affected our political commentary and...

Labor party campaign trailer gets stuck trying to drive under low suspending bridge | Daily Mail Online

Labor party campaign trailer gets stuck trying to drive under low suspending bridge | Daily Mail Online "A Labor campaign trailer was forced to an abrupt halt on Monday after it drove straight into the pathway of a low bridge...

Folau case puts religious debate in danger, says bishop

Folau case puts religious debate in danger, says bishop -- The Australian "'If a rugby player can be sacked by doing nothing more than posting on his social media page what is essentially a summary of the Bible then it's...

Sexular Colonialism - Stephen McAlpine

Sexular Colonialism - Stephen McAlpine Stephen McAlpine on the recent persecution of Christian professional rugby players who are of Pacific Islander heritage. He sees a pattern -- white progressives imposing their morality on brown and black believers, whether Fijian Christians,...

Millionaire benefactor pulls support over Lady Cilento name change

Millionaire benefactor pulls support over Lady Cilento name change "It is understood the family provided about $330,000 between 2016 and 2017 to the Starlight Children's Foundation for the room and would continue to support the national foundation, but decline future...

Bogans, bashing, rorts and stoushes | Daisy Dumas

Bogans, bashing, rorts and stoushes | Daisy Dumas "[Bogan] sits aside a group of words that I had never come across until I moved here from London two years ago. Words that here, for whatever reason, have been given place...

Are We Now In a Post-Post Christian Pagan Australia? - The Gospel Coalition | Australia

Are We Now In a Post-Post Christian Pagan Australia? - The Gospel Coalition | Australia John McClean writes: "I grew up being told that Western culture was trading on a Christian heritage without appreciating it. That is still true in...

The Myth of Aboriginal Exceptionalism - XYZ

The Myth of Aboriginal Exceptionalism - XYZ "The real victims of all this intellectual dishonesty by the leftist elites are the Aboriginal children who are forced to grow up crushed between a Stone Age culture which has died and a...

Experts sound alarm as biometric data from driver's licences added to government database - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Experts sound alarm as biometric data from driver's licences added to government database - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This report from Australia illustrates what Real ID is all about. Worries about your ability to get on an airplane was...

If love wins, we all lose | The Spectator Australia

If love wins, we all lose | The Spectator Australia "I was recently reading C.S. Lewis' classic, The Four Loves. In his introduction, he quotes M. Denis de Rougemont as saying, 'Love ceases to be a demon only when he...

Miranda Devine: Same-sex marriage debate ending with Christians vilified | Daily Telegraph

Miranda Devine: Same-sex marriage debate ending with Christians vilified | Daily Telegraph What does it take to get an event kicked out of a pub's beer garden? Speaking about the necessity of grace when vilified. "The event which so antagonised...

Lands administrative divisions of Queensland - Wikipedia

Lands administrative divisions of Queensland - Wikipedia Queensland was divided into 109 counties in the mid-19th century (map), then further divided into 322 counties by 1901 (map). Although no longer (if ever?) used for local government, these old county divisions...

Polygamy argument shouldn't be dismissed - and I speak from experience

Polygamy argument shouldn't be dismissed - and I speak from experience -- Brisbane Times "I can speak on the subject of polygamy with some degree of understanding.  My Chinese grandfather had two wives at the same time, although only one...

19 Australian Snacks Every American Needs To Try Immediately

19 Australian Snacks Every American Needs To Try Immediately I tried vegemite on buttered bread, lamington, and meat pies, all of which I enjoyed, but missed out on the rest. Thinking I should have tried TimTams and cheesymite rolls....

Effect of Weekend Penalty Wage Rates in Australia

Effect of Weekend Penalty Wage Rates in Australia On top of a generous minimum wage, the Australian government mandates "penalty wage rates" -- bonus wages for working after 10 p.m. or on weekends or public holidays. The result: Few restaurants...

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