AUS Politics
Like We Should Make Fun of NZ
As I asked recently, Can NZ join a military pact without having a military to speak of? I was referring, of course, to current talks between the Chris Hipkins and Anthony Albanese, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, with a view to New Zealand
Do You Want the Narratives of Aus History or the Facts? Pt 1.
Academic historians are an odd bunch. Especially in Australia. They’re all too ready to write up fairy-stories and garbled oral legends as “history”, but not much interested, it seems, in actual, documented, primary sources. For instance, peer-reviewed Australian journals cite the “memories” of an Aboriginal stockman in the Northern
Injunction Filed over Covid Jabs
dailytelegraph.co.nz Proceedings seeking an injunction to stop the use of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid jab products in Australia have been adjourned, as the court timetables the case towards a hearing. The case centres around the failure of the two companies to obtain a GMO licence for their
They Deserve to Be Replaced by AI
G/O Media, owner of clickbait sites “news” like Gizmodo, Jezebel and The Root recently came up with a unique response to a strike by its writers: it announced mass layoffs and writers to be replaced by AI Chatbots. To which wags responded: “How will we tell the difference?” It’
He Who Shall Not Be Named
If you’re an Australian of a certain age, you’ll remember when Queensland was a byword for corruption and police brutality. But the “Moonlight State” has long been left in the shade by Dandrewstan, Victoria. As we saw during the anti-lockdown protests, Victoria Police have got the whole brutality
‘EVS Are a Bit Shite’, #31
Imagine if a service station could randomly refuse to refill your car. Welcome to yet another entry in the very lengthy ledger of why EVs are a bit shite. Queensland risks putting the brakes on the transition to electric vehicles if a state-owned energy company is given the power to
Bulldozing a Forest to Save the Planet
When Heather du Plessis-Allan laughed in the face of a spoilt-brat “Climate Striker”, she was only saying out loud what we all know: these people are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the planet. It’s impossible, after all, not to notice just how selective the Climate Cult’s
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The Comedy Relief of the Alliance [updated]
The closeness of the Australia-New Zealand relationship is a long-standing fact of both nations’ history, going back to Cook’s first voyage in 1768-71. The two nations went to world war together as the ANZACs. But, under its Labour government especially, the reliability of New Zealand as a defence partner
Do We Really Want to Be Like NZ?
Here’s one that’ll draw a good belly laugh from BFD readers: New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has held up his country as one that has successfully embraced reconciliation with its Indigenous people, in a strong signal of trans-Tasman support for the voice referendum. Perhaps a decade ago,
About as Real as ABC ‘Balance’
I often say, “Never apologise — it only encourages the bastards”. I’m only half-serious, of course. There are times when you absolutely should apologise, but only if you mean it. If you don’t think you should be sorry, then say so. There’s nothing worse than the sort of
Meta Busted for Scamming and Spying
Late last year, this little snippet passed almost unnoticed in the NZ media: The government is working with an Israeli-born surveillance firm named among a group of “cyber mercenaries” and kicked off Facebook for spying on people. It is keeping most of the operations with Cobwebs Technologies secret, but they
It’s Just Another Day in Victoria
Another corruption inquiry in Victoria? It must be a Wednesday. With at least four Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission inquiries into the Dear Leader of Dandrewstan, you’d think even Victorians would begin to wake up and smell the poo. But no, not worst Covid outcomes than all other Australian states
We Were Right #416: Censorship
As I reported recently, the Australian government was censoring social media posts at a rate of knots during Covid. In less than three years, the government censored over 4000 posts, for supposedly “harmful misinformation”. I’m sure you won’t be at all surprised to find that that was a
You Vill Enjoy Ze Bugs Raw
What is it with the totalitarian mindset that is so obsessed with “health”? In the 1930s, the Nazis and Fascists were obsessed with a cult of the athletic body, which they forced on the public through such state-run programs as Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude (“Strength Through Joy”). The Soviets, too,