The famous saying is: “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”. Kevin Rudd might want to start touring the animal shelters for a mate or two. The congressional Republicans most likely to come to Kevin Rudd’s defence after he endured sharp criticism from Donald Trump have
Luke Beck Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University On March 21, the federal government will release the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report on ensuring religious schools cannot discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff. But the political debate is already well under way – and has been going on since 2017.
You have to love it when the left eat their own. Not only is it invariably comedy gold, but some telling truths can inadvertently fall out. Imagine, for instance, if there was a debate on banning Nazi insignias and Eric Abetz weighed in on behalf of the National Socialists by
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has been listening to the ABC for over 70 years, since the days of Rus Tyson and “Blue Hills”. It was once the only station trusted for news, weather and rural news. But now he has even stopped watching “Landline” because it too has
If you’ve never been to Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), well… you’re not missing much. Well, that’s not entirely true: you’re missing an architecturally stunning building — filled with absolute, overpriced tat. I’ll give owner David Walsh credit for giving back to
At last, Donald Trump has finally said something that all Australians (minus one) can agree on! Donald Trump has declared Kevin Rudd “not the brightest bulb” and suggested the former Labor prime minister wouldn’t be welcome in Washington as ambassador under a second Trump presidency. In an interview with
Kiwibuild? Oh, you lot across the ditch are so amateur when it comes to obviously ludicrous housing policies. 100,000 new homes in ten years? Pfft. Albo upped the ante on Jacinda by promising to build one million new homes in five years. Take that! And, of course, it’s
Better hold off on that cash-splashing for a while, Britt. Ever since she trousered $2.4 million of Australian taxpayers’ hard-earned, Brittany Higgins and her boyfriend have been whooping it up in exotic locales from the Seychelles to the South of France. But, even as the payout was
As I reported for The BFD, the Chinese Communist Party poured rivers of money into getting Labor elected in 2022. They can’t say they haven’t got their money’s worth. The Albanese government has reportedly removed ASIO boss Mike Burgess and ASIS chief Kerri Hartland from its National
In an early Pogues song, The Boys from the County Hell, Shane McGowan promises, “lend me ten pounds and I’ll buy you a drink”. But that “Irish logic”, as my grandmother used to call it, is a paragon of generosity compared to the Albanese government. After bleeding Australians dry
The left media have attention spans which make goldfish seem like wellsprings of ancient wisdom. Unless it happened on their TikTok feed in the last hour, it’s as remote on their consciousness as the Sack of Nineveh. For instance, when the Morrison government was dumped, the MSM were cock-
You’ve got to hand it to the Albanese government: they’re on the ball. It’s been nearly six months since the High Court’s “NZYQ” ruling, and Labor’s panicked rush to set loose hundreds of violent, depraved foreign-born criminals. Labor are still dithering about what to
Geoffrey Miller PhD candidate in Politics, University of Otago Miriam Neigert Lecturer in German Studies, University of New England As the 2024 academic year begins in Australia and New Zealand, optimism over the state of foreign language learning at universities is in short supply. Languages have taken a post-pandemic
When ASIO chief Mike Burgess refused to name the politician he accused of what amounted to treason, all eyes turned to the Labor party. This is, after all, the party which took literal shopping bags of cash from CCP-linked “donors”. During the 2023 federal election, it emerged that China
As I wrote recently, The Truth Is Always True: a principle doesn’t change just because of your personal biases. This is as true of human rights as any other moral principle. Universal human rights are called that because they are universal: they apply to everyone, under all circumstances. They
The leftist echo chamber continues to shill for its own. Just last week, The BFD reported that disgraced former Canberra top prosecutor Shane Drumgold is now teaching law students at Canberra University. Even more galling, the lawyer who was found by two inquiries to have withheld evidence, and knowingly lied
