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Author: Arthur Chrenkoff

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Politics

The Great Unrepayable

July 24, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” (Treasurer Josh Frydenberg) – God helps if there is ever a real shock like a …

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D10

July 20, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

[Apologies for very sporadic blogging recently, but I have been playing a host to a pandemic refugee] God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in …

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Politics

A Streetcar Named Freedom

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s always fun watching some red on red violence (no metaphor here – as we have now been repeatedly told, words are violence too), and the latest outbreak is particularly …

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be oppressed in this racist hell

July 6, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing world continue to migrate to Western countries, which we are …

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Politics

Cancelling your whole history

July 6, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The hope that statue-destroyers would restrict themselves to just slave traders was misplaced. It was as naive as asking the question “who will they pull down next?” The answer is: …

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A Pessimist Case for November

June 28, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Twenty-twenty was going to be a great year. I think it was the cool number. Much cooler than 1919 or 1818. Ten-ten was just as good a number, but from …

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Dr Scherenkoss, I presume?

June 27, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian journalist at ABC, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and I cut and pasted it because I’m very likely to …

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Tie me a kangaroo down

June 23, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of the most immaterial Prime Ministership of Malcolm Turnbull: The Brand Advisory Council, set up two …

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Politics

Teaching young to hate their own

June 23, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

There is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …

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Politics

America is bad for democracy, say allies

June 16, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study of its kind, based on interviews with 124,000 people in …

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Politics

We shall fight in the streets

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Make no mistake: the attacks, both physical and rhetorical, against the memory of Winston Churchill show that the mask of the agitators in the streets and across the social media …

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Why I Am a Racist*

June 8, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …

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When Only Some #BlackLivesMatter

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Black Lives Matter. To me certainly, a black life matters as much as my white life. However to say something like that, or that “All Lives Matter”, is now considered …

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Politics

End the Antifa terror now

June 1, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

President Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation or a criminal organisation – or both – the underlying facts are …

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Let’s create Hong Kong 2 in Australia

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

We could have done it 31 years ago, after the People’s Liberation Army’s tanks liberated thousands of protesters from their lives across Beijing. We could have done it 23 years …

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COVID in Red and Blue

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is being increasingly remarked that the Coronavirus crisis in the United States is becoming polarised into a Republican versus Democrat issue, not least because the two sides of politics are …

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Lifestyle / Politics

In praise of sprawl

May 21, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I love sprawl. OK, I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either, like so many out there do. I respect it as people’s choice – the suburbs, highways …

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Andrew Cuomo’s Geronticide

May 19, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Of all the instances of authorities failing the people during the Coronavirus crisis, one of the most egregious, certainly in the developed world (the behaviour of the Chinese communist authorities …

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Losing My Region – Australians and the world cool on China

May 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Welcome to the political chaos theory – or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces a hurricane… pretty much everywhere around the world. It seems …

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History / Politics

Who Won World War Two?

May 12, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The commemorations and celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War were mooted this year. No obligatory parades or gathering took place at the time of …

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