Well, it looks like I was wrong: Australian PM Anthony Albanese will be going ahead with the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, after all. In my own defence, I will point out that, all along, I have only ever suggested Albanese abandoning it as a remote possibility. After all, even Treasurer Jim
As BFD regulars will know, one of my favourite sports is poking a stick at the Boomers. Well, for once I’m going to cut the Boomers some slack. The Albanese government has released selected extracts of its 2023 Intergenerational report: extracts which seek to heap blame on an ageing
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org The Australian Government’s proposed new laws to crack
The “Indigenous Voice” is Australia’s version of co-governance. With one very important difference: we’re at least getting to vote on it, rather than have it imposed by the political class. Otherwise, the same secrecy about the true agenda rules (for instance, the attempt to hide away the full,
We all like to hate cyclists for being precious, self-righteous and over-full of their own entitlement. But there’s another group of road users very nearly as self-righteous and with a towering entitlement complex. Motorcyclists. You can hear the howls of outrage already. Because no one, not even cyclists, are
Dominic O’Sullivan Charles Sturt University theconversation.com Big policy ideas usually don’t come up in parliamentary valedictory speeches – they’re for saying goodbye and thank you. So departing Labour MP Jamie Strange was the exception last week when he made a case for New Zealand and Australia to
A “trans” child, it is said, is like a vegan cat: you know someone else is really making the decisions. Increasingly, with “trans men” (girls who pretend to be boys) especially, the decisions are being made by their peer groups and the internet. It’s notable that girls identifying as
What is it with socialist governments and utterly failing to learn from already-failed housing schemes? Well, I guess if they were capable of learning from failure, they wouldn’t be socialists. Which is as poor an excuse as any for the Albanese government lining up to join the ranks of
It goes without saying that paedophiles don’t tend to brag about their crimes. Even obvious groomers either deny what they’re up to, or try and hide behind euphemisms like “Minor Attracted Persons”. So it’s not exactly surprising that even those closest to paedophiles often remain unaware of
“When you tear out a man’s tongue,” George R R Martin wrote in A Clash of Kings, “you are not proving him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” When governments, bureaucrats and Big Tech conspire to silence people online, it’
mercatornet.com “The divisive Voice to Parliament is a project of inner city elite indigenous activists telling us mob what to do,” says Nyunggai Warren Mundine, the director of the Indigenous Forum at the Centre for Independent Studies. In this brief video he explains his vision of strong families and
righttolife.org.uk Girls in Western Australia will be able to get an abortion without their parents knowing if a bill before the state’s parliament becomes law. New law to allow abortions without parental notification The current law in Western Australia requires an under-16 year old who is still
The celebrity eco-crite is a grimly familiar phenomenon. You know the sort: the A-lister who bangs on about cutting emissions and reducing our ecological footprint — and uses their private jet to flit about their collections of mansions scattered around the globe. It’s not just celebrities, though. Scratch a climate
A NSW gold mine was ordered to shut down after some kangaroos drowned in a tailings dam. Greens demanded a stop put to a coal mine because it might kill some finches. Green activists lost their minds when a fishing trawler killed a single dolphin. Yet, when dozens of endangered
Poet A. D. Hope famously described Australia as a land of “five cities, like five teeming sores”. If Anthony Albanese has his way, it will be teeming sores from sea to shining sea. What little of Australia that isn’t buried under a “forest of windfarms” or “endless arrays of
