My moral, social, and political views have never changed essentially. In fact, I have made it worse for myself with a long, unfinished study of the thought of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism (my Edmund Burke section is still to be reposted). Whereas I was a Menzies conservative voter in the 1960s – like the majority of the Australian population – I am now categorised as ‘far right.’ And being a dogged member of the ‘far right’, I assume there is someone in one or other government security department daily examining my website.
Hello, you chaps, or should it be, hello, you gals. Catch me, if you can.
snitch line
Dobber Nation, Quadrant, Monica Wilkie, 14 Feb 2026
The Australian Federal Police have announced, inadvertently and in effect, that they have solved all crimes in Australia. We citizens need not worry about diversity terrorists, social cohesion, illicit tobacco dealers, spies, or any other shenanigans. That is the only conclusion, considering the Commonwealth wallopers have used their resources and Valentine’s Day to trawl for dobbers.
You may be tempted to call me a humourless killjoy. Well, how dare you! If there are people inside the AFP who think this post below is in any way appropriate, we are in trouble.
Our snitching culture was turbocharged during the spicy-cough lockdowns. Citizens were encouraged to report each another, and they did so in tattle-tailing droves, for heinous crimes such, well, going outside to alone on park benches and empty beaches. More generally, there are signs and urgings all over the place to pick up the phone ‘if you see something, say something’, to report suspicious activity and online wrongthink, whether in the form of jokes or bad opinions, to eSafety’s internet police.