Australia’s foreign criminals debacle just gets more mind-boggling by the day. As The BFD has been reporting, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles — a former boat-chasing “refugees” lawyer — issued Direction 99, which orders the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to give priority to allowing foreign-born criminals facing deportation to stay
Whenever some pro-Hamas ignoramus starts jabbering about Israel, they inevitably screech “zionism”. So, I challenge them to define zionism. Most can’t: they’re simply parroting a buzzword, and, as Orwell once wrote, “the average human being never bothers to examine catchwords”. They’re also too cowardly to say
Many years ago, I was accosted on the street by a group of striking teachers, demanding more pay. Why, I asked them, should you be entitled to more of my taxes when school grades are consistently falling? In what other industry, outside of politics, after all, would the workforce be
Who would have thought, back in the 2000s, that the Howard years would seem like a golden age of good governance? Or that John Howard would teach the self-appointed moral elite what ethics and leadership really mean? Yet, here we are. Labor, whose past great leader warned that, “If
Andrew Giles’ position as Immigration Minister is now beyond untenable. The last Labor minister to have this much blood on his hands was Peter Garrett, under whose watch four apprentices died, due to the disastrously botched Pink Batts scheme. Garrett, to damn him with faint excuses, could at least plead
Like the Covid pandemic, the Gaza war is a litmus test of basic moral fibre. As depressing as it is to see how many have failed dismally, it’s at least reassuring — and often surprising — to see who passes with flying colours. I am not, it is putting it lightly,
There’s a phenomenon called “pathological altruism”. It refers to supposedly “helping” behavior that actually causes harm. It is caused by a combination of information deficiency, self-righteousness, and misdirected aims. Married to a closely-related psychopathology, virtue-signalling, the desire to be seen to be “doing good”, it’s
He’s one of the most iconic images in Australian history. The towering, iron-clad figure emerging from the bush dawn in a haze of gunsmoke. Depending on your viewpoint, he was either an anti-Establishment rebel or a murderous Irish horse-thief with delusions of grandeur. Either way, the
One of the most perplexing weirdnesses of these grim times is the sight of tens of thousands of ‘progressives’ loudly and often violently supporting a group who are the antithesis of nearly everything they profess to hold dear. From women’s rights to gay rights, human rights to secularism: Hamas
First, it was the Washington Post, describing a murderous terrorist leader as an “austere religious scholar”. Then it was CNN, wittering about “mostly peaceful protests” – literally against a backdrop of flaming cars and buildings. Now it’s the turn of the BBC – surprise, surprise. The BBC has come under fire
There’s a deep crisis crippling science. Just don’t ask the Science Bros and IFLScience normies about it, because their grasp of actual science rarely goes beyond witless internet memes. These are the people who think Neil deGrasse Tyson is a great scientist. Behind the public facade of ‘Trust
Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg or Bernie Sanders vanished without a trace. Then we might grasp, somewhat, the magnitude of the disappearance of the man Robert Kennedy called the “second-most powerful in America”: someone whose power and influence was only exceeded by the president himself. Yet, it’s likely that
As you probably know, the word dinosaur is a portmanteau of the Greek words, deinos (terrible) and sauros (lizard). Which is exactly how the creatures were long regarded: gigantic lizards. Part and parcel of that was the assumption that dinosaurs were ‘cold-blooded’ or, more correctly, ectothermic. That is, like
In the 1971 comedy-western, Support Your Local Gunfighter, protagonist Latigo Smith (James Garner) ends with a breaking-the-fourth-wall monologue, relating the main characters’ various fates. And me? he concludes. I go on to become a big star in Italian Westerns. The knowing joke shows that, within just
For the past generation or so, Western society has been running a vast, largely unacknowledged social engineering experiment on its children. That it has been a grotesque failure is more and more inescapable. But no-one, least of all those most responsible, want to talk about that. In fact, they’
