The even stranger case of Chris Uhlmann

The very peculiar Chris Uhlmann has outdone himself with a piece in the Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time’¹. While the title is hilarious, the subtitle is actually not too inaccurate, vague as it is, although reading the content shows that Uhlmann is again away with the fairies. Previously, he has been the subject of ridicule here for his silliness in blaming blackouts on wind turbines and his lack of understanding of the origin of the term, ‘folks’², as well as his idiocy regarding the Azaria Chamberlain case³.

There is obviously something horribly wrong with Uhlmann, especially between his ears. Years ago he used to be what seemed a reasonable journalist, but since leaving the ABC he has become seemingly irrational and addicted to clickbait drivel like that mentioned above.

As I noted, the title of his piece in the Murdoch budgie cage liner was hilarious, its subtitle was less ridiculous. It stated ‘Australia’s new reformation is a growing revolt against a detached governing elite’¹. While there is a revolt against the two party system by people who believe they have been screwed by that system, to consider Pauline Hanson as the ‘remedy’ is at best monumentally stupid. The reason is because Hanson is being bankrolled by Gina Rinehart. This is the same Rinehart who used to bankroll the National Party while they seemed less like a boil on the pig’s arse of the Liberal Party. Rinehart has simply shifted her cash from one party to another because the former seems to be dropping off the political twig, while One Notion is its replacement gofer*.

Uhlmann’s sub-sub-heading is “Australia’s woke elites have sparked a backlash, just as the Catholic Church’s Curia did in 1517”¹. Those ‘woke elites’ epithet is simply imported from the land of the Mango Mussolini. Of course, Gina Rinehart, despite being Australia’s wealthiest arsehole, can never be considered part of the elite, just as John Howard, while using the same term, could never be considered part of the elite despite being the Prime Minister.

The elites to which Howard referred were those who actually knew what they were talking about. Howard’s ‘elites’ included such people as economists, scientists, sociologists and criminologists, but excluded those who actually were the elites in government and business. It was Howard’s way of deflecting attention away from those, like him, who were the elite and actually had the wealth, power and influence, and were misusing it for their own gain⁴. This is the same method that Uhlmann writes to deflect attention from the actual elites with all the power and influence. And of course, like so many RWNJs, he includes ‘woke’ as if empathy is a bad thing, much as all of the Mango Mussolini’s acolytes do.

Uhlmann starts off with “The rise of One Nation [sic] is not simply a rebellion against the political class. It is a revolt against the permanent governing caste of progressive elites that inhabits the state and federal bureaucracies, universities, courts, commissions, NGOs and much of the media”¹. The permanent governing caste of progressive elites? Holy mackerel, where was he during the Abbott to Morrison years? While he wisely doesn’t mention parliament, it is all the knowledgeable he excretes upon: bureaucrats, universities, the courts, assorted commissions, NGOs and “much” of the media. With the latter he means everyone except the Murdoch budgie cage liners, for it is they who are attempting to import all the Trumpist drivel into Australia.

Uhlmann notes that: “The symbolic nadir of the Church’s decline was the sale of indulgences, a cash-for-salvation racket run by clerics more intent on filling their coffers than tending their flocks”; and he does this without any understanding of the systemic rot in the Australian (and American) polity, where corporate money can buy ‘indulgences’ (privileged access, tax cuts, government contracts, subsidies, favourable regulations, etc.) if they send the cash to political parties. Gina? Are you there?

Later he says: “The Reformation was not a revolt against a single pope, bishop or king. It was a decision to demolish institutional repression. It was a rage against the machine”¹. And yet here he is writing as part of the machine that wants to keep the status quo, where the wealthy buy their indulgences while the rest of us have to tug our forelock and bow. There is a reformation coming, and it will see the end of the institutional repression now perpetrated by the billionaires and their purchased politicians. Gina? Are you listening?

Then Uhlmann gets onto the Covid-19 reaction by ‘the secular Curia’ as he calls these damned woke progressives. He said “For more than two years Australians were exposed to the unfiltered instincts of the governing caste and the experience left a vivid mental scar on many. Experts, bureaucrats and regulators authorised absurd interference in daily life while insisting every decision, no matter how draconian or irrational, was based on “science” and for our own good. Choice was not an option”¹. This demonstrates his willful ignorance and his lack of understanding of science. It is unfortunate that people as stupid as Uhlmann need to have rules that prevent them from doing things that may be injurious to others. If such rules did not exist, he could choose to travel at 80kph through a school zone, or choose to attempt to intimidate women outside an abortion clinic, or choose to drink heavily while driving, or choose to own an automatic rifle, or choose to fly an aircraft without a licence. While the libertarians call this being in the thrall of the nanny state, Uhlmann is one of the people who needs a nanny to make him behave sensibly. The lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates probably saved many thousands of Australian lives. When compared to the ham-fisted, inept, stupid (drinking bleach anyone? It will disappear by April, anyone?) reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic of the Trump administration, which killed 3,642 people per million (i.e. 1.22 million people) in the US, Australia did well in losing only 937 people per million (i.e. 24,400 people), just over one quarter the rate of the US⁵. I was unperturbed by the measures taken to cope with the pandemic because, unlike Uhlmann, I have concern for my fellow Australians.

Then this cretinous Uhlmann gets onto Net Zero, and spouts the ultraright drivel that Net Zero will lead to “zero jobs, zero growth and zero measurable benefit for the planet”. Following this is: “The assumptions are never revisited, the premises are never challenged and every agency of government exists to reinforce the creed in a profound institutional betrayal of the people.” As mentioned above, here he seems to not understand science, which is constantly self-correcting. It is rare to see such drivel in print, despite similar drivel coming from other Murdoch arsewipes like Ian Plimer⁶, Rowan Dean⁷ and sundry other nutters^8,9. 

While seemingly not satisfied with his ignorance, Uhlmann goes even further stating that wind and solar will give the punters higher power prices¹, whereas all the data shows that solar and onshore wind generation are the cheapest form of electricity generation¹⁰.

This is at a time when the government is offering households with smart meters in parts of Australia, three hours of free electricity (up to 24 kilowatt hours), starting in July 2026; this is when wholesale prices are very low or even negative due to solar generation producing more supply than there is demand . This is a big bonus for those with a home battery, who will be able to charge it for free between 11am and 2pm. Prices for electricity at other times will be slightly more expensive. This is a way of getting people to use of electricity for optional things such as EV charging to the middle of the day, because of the floods of solar electricity generated at that time¹¹.

Then this fruitcake Uhlman turn his attention to transgender people, arguing that “a change of gender on a government document overturns the biological reality of sex written into every cell of the human body”¹. His ignorance here is so profound that it borders on being child-like. I have covered this before, but will reiterate it briefly. Most women are born with 46XX chromosomes and most men with 46XY. However, there are some people with single sex chromosome (45X or 45Y), while others have three or more sex chromosomes (47XXX, 47XYY, 47XXY). In addition some males are born with 46XX, while some females are born with 46XY. Indeed, some people are born with some of their cells having 46XX chromosome sets, while others in their body have 46XY sets¹². Sex is not a simple binary system as the ignoramuses like Uhlmann would have you believe. Again this is another fabrication he has imported from the US. Then he states that it his bugbears that are the cause of this; the bureaucracies, universities, courts and commissions. He considers this a culture war and that the people who start it with facts are gaslighting the punters out there who don’t understand it¹, apart from feeling uneasy.

What Uhlmann doesn’t tell the reader in his diatribe is that he is a former Catholic seminarian who, after leaving the ABC, has now drifted into the bizarre menagerie of Murdoch’s Sky News and writing for Murdoch’s budgie cage liner. The religious, after having tried to take over the Liberal Party, have now turned their attention to Gina Rinehart’s One Notion and will use that as their vehicle¹³. That is why Uhlmann is trying so hard to pretend that Pauline Hanson is Martin Luther, and that religious beliefs are more important than facts.

The religious takeover of the Liberal Party failed because they could not manage to do it in Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales¹⁴, and because the prime ministership of religious nutter Scott Morrison made them unelectable in 2022, and the adoption of Trumpist policies (at the behest of Gina Rinehart)¹⁵, while in opposition led to their hammering at the 2025 election such that they are now in an existential crisis¹⁶. So, given the likelihood of the demise of the Liberal Party and National Party, the religious, along with Gina had to look for another vehicle and One Notion got the short straw. The religious will try to impose their views on the One Notion policies, limited as those policies are. Some will want to repeal same-sex marriage, and perhaps even recriminalise homosexuality, banning abortion etc., much like the Project 2025 religious nutters behind Trump have done in the US¹⁷.

Calling Pauline Hanson a ‘Martin Luther’ is silly, much as many of Uhlmann’s recent tirades are; she was likened to Bozo the Clown by one reply on Reddit. Another replied with a quote: “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.” A third replied with “Ah yes the Australian woke elites. The elite wokes of Australia. The woke Australians who are elite. The woke elites of Australia. Are they in the room with us right now?¹

What Uhlmann is all about is keeping the status quo, where the wealthy pay little tax, they have political power, have a favourable regulatory framework, where the religious maintain their privilege despite religion being in decline all around the world, and where people like him can continue lying to the gullible bastards who read Murdoch’s budgie cage liner.

*Gofer: an informal term for an employee or assistant whose primary job is to run errands, deliver messages, fetch items (like food or documents), or perform other menial tasks

Sources

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1txzhp0/will_pauline_hanson_be_the_martin_luther_of_our/
2. https://blotreport.com/2020/12/15/the-strange-case-of-chris-uhlmann/
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8. https://blotreport.com/2019/03/14/combover-defends-coal/
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13. https://substack.com/home/post/p-200408475
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17. https://blotreport.com/2025/08/31/christofacism/