The “Yes” campaign for the “Indigenous Voice” referendum just can’t seem to get their stories straight. Time and again, they’ll say one thing in parliament or to the media, only to be directly contradicted. Quite often, it’s the same person contradicting their own words. Which is all
Michael Mansell has come straight out and said the quiet part out loud: it’s all about an Aboriginal ethnostate. I’ve been warning for months that the “Uluru Statement”, the foundational document of the “Voice” referendum, is a tacit call for a racially separatist, Aboriginal ethnostate, encompassing part or
Ah, the Race Card: is there anything it can’t do? Why take responsibility, when you can just blame it on “colonialism”? BFD readers will be grimly familiar with the routine: Bro goes the bash on his missus and kids. “Oh, but, yer Honour, it’s the ongoing impact of
How about it, BFDers? Fancy becoming the seventh state of Australia? No, I don’t think so, either. But that hasn’t stopped the yammering idiot chorus we call our “leaders” from bringing it up again, like a particularly cretinous mongrel dog bringing up its lunch so it can have
As I keep warning you: Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you. This isn’t a paranoid delusion, it’s a fundamental principle of science and logic. Take no-one’s word for it. Least of all mainstream media entities whose clear mission is to reinforce narratives rather than
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was put on the spot while giving a talk at Government House in Adelaide, South Australia when asked to give the definition of a woman. “What is a woman?” audience member and women’s rights activist Biddy O’Loughlin asked the former Labor Party leader
You know you live in an authoritarian regime when you’re not only forbidden from uttering a word of criticism about designated groups, but ordered to celebrate them. If a regime decks public spaces with its banners and flags, and punishes any who desist, that’s authoritarianism. If even the
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
