Sir Mark Oliphant has long been a darling of the Australian left. Not only was he a pioneering nuclear physicist, but he was also tacitly blackballed by the Americans and the Menzies government in the 50s (call it an early form of shadowbanning). Nothing was more calculated to endear someone
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Despite its upper-class and aristocratic origins in the UK and US, golf in New Zealand has for most of the
The Covid pandemic was a litmus test. Ever wondered who, should real fascism come to your country, would click their heels and salute the Dear Leader? Covid let you know. October 7 was a litmus test, too: a litmus test of basic decency. Everyone likes to brag that they would
“If you build it,” the famous line from Field of Dreams goes, “They will come.” Or, more accurately, if you put out a bowl of sugar, you’re gonna get ants. And if you put out a gargantuan, overflowing pot of taxpayer’s money, you’re going to attract every
Some years ago, the ABC featured neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell on one of its interminable “panel discussions”. ABC management purported to be so concerned by what Cottrell might say, that they put the program on a ten-second delay. Fast-forward a few years, and they’re giving “pro-Palestine” advocates a national stump
It’s been a wild couple of weeks for the rule of law in Australia. Police in NSW ignored a Muslim mob chanting “Gas the Jews”, but arrested a Jewish man trying to attend a vigil for the slaughtered of October 7. Then, while Australia’s remaining Holocaust survivors issued
Wow, you guys over the ditch thought you had landed a dud when Nanaia Mahuta finagled the Foreign Minister’s job? BFD readers, I give you Penny Wong. Wong’s plain uselessness at her job is only heightened by the fact that she is supposed to be the brains trust
Imagine if they preceded the opening of Australia’s peak science body with a mass led by a Pentecostal preacher. The collective shrieking of the chattering classes would be deafening. But, put on a bit of oogabooga mysticism, and suddenly, everyone comes over all solemn and worshipful. That’s what
Has there ever been a more useless, nasty bunch of wreckers in Australia’s parliament than the Albanese government and the Greens? The Greens at least have the poor excuse of being genetically programmed to blindly follow violent extremists, from the founding of the Green movement by ex-Nazis, to the
Australian PM Anthony Albanese clearly took to heart the adage, “Never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be”. After all, his so-called “Covid inquiry” was so obviously set up to be a whitewash — for instance, by excluding every action taken by state governments,
When our eldest was just a baby, we made a day trip to the spas at Hepburn Springs in central Victoria. While my wife had a massage, I played with our son by the pool. An obviously Jewish old lady next to us cooed over him and dandled him on
As more and more people are finding out, as the reality of ‘Net Zero’ bites hard, you don’t realise how much you depend on modern technology until it’s gone. Even 100 years ago, H G Wells remarked that everyone who pined for the ‘good old days’ of the
Imagine if, following Kristallnacht, Melbourne councils had started flying the swastika flag, “in solidarity” with Germany. There would have been outrage and condemnation then, and it would be remembered as a shameful anti-Semitic incident today. Yet, just such a shameful show of anti-Semitic hate is happening in Melbourne right now.
New Zealand and Australia, like the rest of the Western world, are fast spiralling into a dark whirlwind of anti-Semitic hate. Mainstream politicians chant slogans calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state in Auckland and are marching with mobs chanting “Gas the Jews!” in Sydney. As The BFD’s
