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When Even Big Brother Thinks You’ve Gone Too Far

When Even Big Brother Thinks You’ve Gone Too Far

What is it with Labor governments and Orwellian censorship? Last time, it was Julia Gillard trying to set up a government censor for mainstream media. This time, it’s Anthony Albanese, trying to do the same for social media. Unsurprisingly, both Gillard and Albanese hail from Labor’s Socialist Left

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There’s No Keeping a Good Woman Down

There’s No Keeping a Good Woman Down

As any sensible man knows, telling an angry woman to be quiet is almost never going to work out in your favour. But the wet, weak fools running the supposedly conservative party in Victoria are not sensible men. Women across the world are very angry right now — and they’re

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Ms 7% and the Mermaids

There’s an old saying: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”. Most celebrities, it seems, have never heard that saying. Probably because they couldn’t hear over the din of their own witless yapping. Every time these overpaid

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The More They Explain, the More We See Through Them

The More They Explain, the More We See Through Them

A saying we often use here at the BFD is, “explaining is losing”. Ironically, given that one of the biggest complaints about the “Indigenous Voice” referendum is that the government is withholding detail, the more they try to explain, the more they lose. That might be because their “explanations” are

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The Last Good Poll for the Voice Has Gone

The Last Good Poll for the Voice Has Gone

Things just keep going from bad to worse for the “voice” referendum campaigners. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Guardian was trumpeting that their Essential poll was the lone standout from polls that uniformly show support for the referendum slipping further and further into losing territory. You’ll never

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They’re Better Than Us — And They Know It

They’re Better Than Us — And They Know It

There are many good reasons to never listen to celebrities banging on about politics. For a start, they’re almost always terrified sheep: the shadow of cancel culture is ever but a tweet away, and every sleb is more than aware that their entire career hangs on studiously following The

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NZ Is Not the Best Example to Follow

NZ Is Not the Best Example to Follow

For years, we Australians have been subject to the dreary fawning of the chattering classes, wishing that their countrymen would follow New Zealand’s lead. People who have their feet on the ground and skin in the game are advising that New Zealand is the last place we want to

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Now YouTube Is Censoring Politicians

Rebekah Barnett brownstone.org ‘30 minutes of truth bombs’ is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, last Wednesday 28 June. Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after public disagreements over the Party’s handling

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They Learned Nothing from the past Three Years

They Learned Nothing from the past Three Years

Australia’s elite class really learned nothing from the pandemic years – least of all about China. Whether or not China engineered the virus, and whether or not it was deliberately released or leaked, the fact that China’s months of lies and cover-ups meant that the pandemic was far worse

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Doing All the “No” Work for Us

Doing All the “No” Work for Us

Boy, Aborigines sure are a special bunch. Not only did they invent democracy and agriculture, as Bruce Pascoe would have us believe, but they’re also such magical, rarified beings that merely drawing a picture of them is an affront. When the Australian Financial Review published a cartoon that accurately

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A Minister Should Be Above Schoolyard Stuff

A Minister Should Be Above Schoolyard Stuff

Look out, New Zealand — you’ve got a contender for the most childishly bitchy, bullying female authoritarian in power. At least our mean girl isn’t PM, though. But, as a senior minister, she’s still far too capable of embarrassing Australia on the world stage. Anthony Albanese’s office

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Dutton Goes for the Nuclear Option

Dutton Goes for the Nuclear Option

Finally, Australia has a political leader with the gumption to say what everyone knows, but no-one is allowed to say: Australia needs nuclear energy. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has ramped up calls for nuclear power in Australia, casting the move as a way to avoid dependence on wind and

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