AUS Politics
Will the Odds Remain Ever in His Favour?
Will losing the Commonwealth Games be Dictator Dan’s last hurrah? In a recent chat on Reality Check Radio, Cam raised the future prospects of Victorian premier, Dan Andrew. I pointed out that his last election victory was far from as emphatic as most think. Much of the heavy swing
Making Whores and Charlatans Look Honest
As I repeatedly warn BFD readers, “Always assume a ‘fact-checker’ is trying to bullshit you”. That’s because “fact-checkers” are in reality almost always Confirmation Bias Machines whose purpose is to mislead and to reinforce biased narratives. The ABC and its partnership with RMIT FactLab is a case in point.
Do They Even Read Their Own Reports?
As I’ve asked several times: are these people barking mad? Or just colossally stupid? I’m talking, of course, of the zealots of the green-left and their one, big idea: “Net Zero”. People like Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen. No wonder Anthony Albanese wants
A Weekend of Ominous Numbers
A couple of interesting things happened in Australian politics over the weekend. One drew a lot of attention, the other passed almost without mention. Yet, both signal trouble ahead for the Albanese government. The first was the Fadden by-election, which delivered a thumping win to the Coalition. Of course, as
An Obit for a Public Figure
Richard Kelly Richard Kelly, a retired 60 yo, born and bred in Melbourne. He spent a couple of years as a mathematics teacher before moving into Insurance and Superannuation/Investments first as a trainee actuary and then as a business analyst with some of the largest institutions in Australia and
Rank and File Revolt in Tas Libs
With wall-to-wall Labor governments on Mainland Australia, the chattering classes have taken to growling about the supposed end of the conservative coalition. Just as they did when the same state of affairs ruled in the 1990s – right before John Howard cemented the longest continuous Australian prime ministership. The basic error
In Which I Praise the Albanese Govt
As readers will be more than aware, I’m resolutely not a fan of the Albanese government. That said, to damn them with faint praise, they are at least doing – or trying to do – one thing right. Ironically, that one thing is trying to fix decades of bad policy inflicted
Another One Against Big Brother Laws
As I wrote recently, even Big Brother himself, Mark Zuckerberg, is raising an eyebrow at Anthony Albanese’s Orwellian “online misinformation” bill. The bill would allow the government to arbitrarily declare anything online as “harmful misinformation”, while exempting themselves from the same scrutiny. The bill would also outlaw speech that
No Cover for You, Groomers!
We all know the lawsuits are coming for the gender whisperers and child mutilators. The insurers know it, too. In a sure sign of the growing backlash against the illogical, harmful “trans” cult, one of Australia’s leading medical insurers has announced that it will no longer cover private practising
China Just Loves Albo’s Ministry of Truth
Technically, it’s a fallacy to judge an idea on the metric of just who is endorsing it. Still, there are some actors who are so resolutely wrong that it’s a pretty safe bet that anything they like is a very bad thing indeed. One such bad actor is
New Zealand and Australia’s Race-Based Decision
Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published on The Common Room In New Zealand, the general election on October 14 will be to some extent a judgment on the extensive co-governance policies
Green Chooses Cash Over Koalas
“A humanitarian,” Orwell said, “is always a hypocrite”. Nothing could have prepared him for the Greens, though. Because, when it comes to “progressive” hypocrisy, the Greens are in a class of their own. From pontificating about political donations while trousering the largest donation in Australian history, to blatherskiting about “transparency”
Kiwis Vote With Their Feet
It’s time to bury the ghost of Robert Muldoon and finally admit that New Zealand is the loser when it comes to trans-Tasman migration. Mostly because, while New Zealand is still a great country, it’s been run into the ground by its elite class. This includes not just
Australia Shouldn’t Fall For EU ‘Bargain’
As I wrote recently, the Hipkins Labour government is providing a sterling example of just what Australia shouldn’t do, with its trade deal with the EU. That deal, a typical EU bully-boy pact, begrudgingly allows New Zealand a pittance of access to heavily protected EU markets, while hog-tying New