Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
It’s hardly surprising that dippy modern feminists have gone so ga-ga for the batty nonsense that’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Dippy, literary cat-lady Margaret Atwood clutches her pearls over an imagined future where a shortage of fertile females sees women turned into slave broodmares. In reality, a catastrophic
In a stunning scene from Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, a priest delivers a terrifying sermon on the torments of hell. The priest is played by author Thomas Keneally, who would later talk of his “feeling of outrage that at the age of seven we were lumbered with
If the “Indigenous Voice” referendum is passed, it will turn Australia into a profoundly un-democratic state where racial privilege is the law of the land. Whether or not it passes, though, enough damage has been done: the process so far has trashed the spirit of the Constitution and skirted the
cfact.org Now they tell us: …big spending on renewables needed, says report Australia must find $1.5 trillion by the end of the decade to meet 2050 green targets in an effort experts say would need to mirror the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. By Nick Evans,
The late Carl Sagan praised the value of back-of-the-envelope calculations. Scribbling a few equations and approximate values “cut[s] through nonsense like a knife through butter”. Nonsense, though, is the stock-in-trade of the mainstream media — and most journalists seem incapable of performing even the most rudimentary calculations. I’m far
Every so often, in their increasingly deranged efforts to scare the pants off us, the Climate Cult inadvertently publish reports that make the sceptical case for us. As I wrote recently, a recent report by Net Zero Australia estimated the cost of merely transforming Australia’s transmission grid to cope
Robert G. Patman University of Otago Strategy, as the great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz once observed, is the process of effectively applying means to achieve clearly defined ends. But good strategy in global politics has proved easier said than done. The post-Cold War era is replete with examples of
As I wrote last week regarding the sacking of Mark Latham as leader of the One Nation party in NSW, Pauline Hanson might want to ask some in the Labor party about the fury of a Latham spurned. When he was ousted as Labor leader after the 2004 election, Latham
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
