The sense is growing that Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ second budget is not at all what the government is claiming. Far from a triumph of good economic management, economists are calling it a “smoke and mirrors” budget, with a “surplus” that amounts to little more than an accidental windfall of
One only has to spend five minutes in the company — virtual or real life — of the average member of the chattering classes to realise just how bizarrely out of touch they really are. In the real world of suburban working families, climate hysteria takes a long, long last place to
Day two of the Sofronoff inquiry into the handling of the Brittany Higgins rape accusations, and the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions is keen to defend himself after a shocking first day. As BFD readers may recall, the first day of hearings saw the DPP accused of effectively trying to
Somehow, it’s hard to be quite so hoopla as Zippy and Albo are at their “budget surplus”, when mortgages, power bills, fuel prices and grocery prices are zooming into the stratosphere. Especially when the “surplus” is entirely a chimaera of creative accounting and tax gouging, and splashing benefit handouts
The fallout from the Brittany Higgins scandal continues to rain down. The ACT Director of Prosecutions may have called a halt to criminal proceedings against the accused — but now the DPP is finding himself the accused in an inquiry into the whole legal fracas. Canberra DPP Shane Drumgold, who wanted
You’ve got to hand it to him, I suppose: few politicians are as Teflon-coated as Victoria’s “Dictator Dan”, premier Daniel Andrews. Family car mows down a cyclist? Heck, just drive off with the full blessing of attending police, no breath test needed. Detectives asking to arrest multiple members
On Saturday night, I began to watch the coronation broadcast on the ABC. Hoping against hope that the ABC wouldn’t, well, be the ABC. Of course they were. They can’t help themselves. We turned off after five minutes and switched, first to Channel 7, then, when the ads
Are Victorians waking up that they’ve been had, yet? Pfft. Silly question. “Dictator Dan” could piss in Victorians’ faces and they’d praise him for making it rain. They didn’t learn from the blatant corruption and they’re not learning from the endless string of lies and broken
As we all know, telling the unadorned truth is not in the ABC’s DNA. Naturally, then, they can’t bring themselves to come straight out and say, “Young women are still taking useless degrees.” Instead, Australia’s [taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network] national broadcaster has to dress it all up
nzdsos.com Australian GP and former pharmacist: Dr McCann spoke in Sydney at the Vaccine Conference supported by the United Australia Party (UAP) in Feb 2023. She is chair of UAP’s health and policy committee. Dr McCann gave a powerful presentation about her awakening to the problems with Covid-19
Nothing quite attests to the sheer, demented folly of “Net Zero” than its own defenders admitting that it will be ruinously expensive and achieve nothing practical in terms of “climate”. Remember, this isn’t some wicked “Big Oil shill” or “climate denier” speaking: this is the pro “Net Zero” crowd
I can’t help but admire Nick Cave. While I personally (and I’ll admit that it’s purely a personal prejudice) think his musical output peaked in 1984 (From Her to Eternity), with some slightly lesser highlights along the way, and his output as a writer is generally wildly
I can’t recall a time when inflation was so shockingly obvious, so astonishingly fast. I’ve lived through my share of economic cycles. I was too young to really notice the stagflation of the 1970s, but I graduated into the recession of the early 80s. I well recall a
Besides being the world’s serial killer capital, South Australia was long regarded as Australia’s most “progressive” (i.e. woke) state. Whether the two were related is unclear. But, then Victoria said, “Hold our skinny almond milk lattes”. Along with its Grand Prix, Victoria nicked SA’s Queen of
The biggest lie of the trans creepers is that they face a “genocide” of violence. The second-biggest lie is that they are a powerless, persecuted, helpless minority. While they are indeed a minority — less than a tenth of a per cent of the population — they enjoy ludicrously outsized power, presence
In the journalism business, defo can be an occupational hazard. That’s why the big media companies have in-house lawyers, to “legal” stuff that might otherwise land them in court. With over a billion taxpayer dollars a year in their pockets, Australia’s [taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outfit] public broadcaster should
