Astonishingly, there’s one member of the Albanese government who seems to dimly grasp the basic rule of economics: the allocation of scarce resources. Resources Minister Madeleine King is warning against the Greens’ and environmental groups’ lobbying against gas developments. It’s pure politics, of course: King’s seat is
In 1984, Orwell wrote that “children nowadays were horrible”. He was referring, of course, to authoritarian regimes’ obsession with recruiting children as early as possible. The Hitler Youth, for instance, or the Young Pioneers. The Soviets had their cult of Pavlik Morozov, the “brave, young hero” who denounced his kulak
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Yesterday Labour’s own pollsters, Talbot Mills, released their last poll before the election. This poll confirmed the 1News/Verian Poll from Wednesday night, ACT is slipping, and National is going to need both ACT and NZ First to govern. A new Talbot Mills poll has shown NZ First rising
For months in 2013, the Australian left-media was practically glued, en masse to the Gillard Government’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The ABC was especially salivating, dedicating hours per day to broadcasting testimony (by contrast, it barely mentioned the concurrent Royal Commission into trade
Well, there’s no disguising what the real agenda of the men in dresses is, now. As if we didn’t know already. As mediocre male athletes began putting on a bit of lippy and trouncing female athletes in women’s sports, sensible-thinking folk offered up an obvious solution.
“Tell me this isn’t a government operation.” My favourite line from Apollo 13, when Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) learns that the vital carbon scrubbers on the Lunar Module are round, while the ones they need to replace on the Command Module are square. I’m not certain whether Kranz
Two months ago, the news broke of the arrest of a former childcare worker accused of possibly the worst career of serial child abuse ever discovered in Australia. The 45-year-old is accused of more than 1,600 offences, including rape, against nearly 100 children, over 15 years. His
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The latest 1News/Verian poll was released yesterday and National and Act’s plans are slipping as Act voters slowly disappear. Although National remained stable, Act has slipped 2%, meaning that National is going to need NZ First in order to govern. It’s desperate times for Labour as New
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that, The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them. Even in his day, Jefferson knew the mainstream media were liars: Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. 150 years later, Dearborn mayor Orville Hubbard
Dictator Dan may be gone, but his legacy lingers on in the smoking rubble of Victoria’s economy. It’s the second time in the past quarter-century that an electorally popular Labor government has left Victoria all but bankrupt. Indeed, Andrew’s legacy of debt outsizes even Cain’s
As if our readers needed more reasons to support The BFD, here’s another: we’ll bring you the news that the PIJF-bought-and-paid-for NZ mainstream media won’t. These things matter: I’m sure you’ve all had the confounding experience of trying to argue with
As I wrote recently, the “Indigenous Voice” referendum has unintentionally been the making of Jacinta Price’s political career. Just a year into her first term as a federal senator, Price is already being talked about as future prime minister material. Her front-and-centre role as a co-leader
