Remember when we were told that same-sex marriage was about “gays getting married — nothing else”? How’s that worked out for us? It’s taken barely five years to get from there to being screamed at as “bigots” if we raise an eyebrow at drag queens stripping in front of
righttolife.org.uk A Bill in Victoria, Australia which would have forced hospitals with a religious affiliation and which receive any state funding to offer abortions and assisted suicide has failed. Earlier this week, Reason Party (formely named the Australian Sex Party) MP Fiona Patten attempted to force through the
Some time back, BFD contributor Sir Bob Jones caused quite a ruckus with his column cheekily calling for a “Maori gratitude day” to replace Waitangi day. After all, as Jones pointed out, nearly all Maori alive today owe their very existence to at least some European ancestors. Not to mention
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Doctors With Voices is a platform from which both family doctors and hospital specialists with numerous decades of clinical experience between them, can finally be heard. Former Qantas Captain Graham Hood (Hoody) is interviewing a succession of Australian doctors
It’s been a long legal slog for Zoe Buhler, but the Australian woman has finally won a free speech victory in court. Still, the two-year court grind proves that the process is ultimately the punishment. Buhler made headlines around the world in 2020, when she was arrested by three
There were two big wins for free speech in Australia this week: one for a working-class mum from Ballarat, the other for a high-profile sports commentator. One was arrested for a Facebook post, the other cancelled for a joke. Ballarat woman Zoe Buhler was arrested, pregnant and in her pyjamas,
I suppose you’ve got to grudgingly admire Daniel Andrews for sheer, bloody chutzpah. In the same week that a whistleblower alleged high-level police interference in the Red Shirts investigation, and the state Ombudsman was asked to investigate the corruption scandal for the third time — Dan goes right out and
Robert Muldoon used to brag that exporting New Zealanders to Australia raised the IQ of both countries, but lately, Australia’s importing a lot of garbage from New Zealand that’s making us dumber. And I’m not talking about Russell Crowe, phony “asylum seekers”, or sundry criminal bikers. What
As uncovered by The BFD, the New Zealand police — not Immigration NZ, apparently, as was earlier claimed — actively sought to have two journalists banned from entering the country. Their internal communications left no doubt that the reasons were entirely political, profiling the journalists as “far-right” (a purely subjective political opinion)
Fox hunting is a British cultural practice at least centuries, probably millennia, old. Hunting with hounds in Britain goes back to pre-Roman times. Fox hunting as we know it – all scarlet coats, horses, hounds and Tally Ho! – is a more recent evolution. It’s a cultural practice almost exclusively associated
The old saying in politics goes that you should never hold an inquiry unless you know what its outcomes will be. In which case it has to be asked: is Anthony Albanese just stupid, overconfident or staggeringly cynical? Because, unless the reins are kept very tight on his forthcoming royal
The Great Reckoning for the gender whisperers is starting at last. Not only are parents pushing back against groomers in schools, but an increasing number of young people are ‘de-transitioning’ and calling in the lawyers. Britain’s Tavistock Clinic, which ran an industrial-scale operation of gaslighting confused kids into ‘transitioning’
Pop quiz: who designed and implemented Australia’s NDIS? Almost all of you would answer “Julia Gillard” — but you’d only be half right. It was certainly Gillard’s brainchild: she designed the scheme and laid the legislative groundwork for it. So naturally, and not unreasonably, most people would call
Tommy Bent must be resting a bit easier in his grave, these days. After all, he’s finally going to shuck the mantle of Victoria’s most corrupt premier. Even Queensland’s Joh Bjelke-Petersen might finally be getting a contender for most corrupt premier in all Australia. From volunteer firefighters,
In John Black’s novel Man Down, the protagonist reflects on a campaign to remove the statue of a colonial-era figure in a New Zealand town. Whatever his faults, all of them the common failings of his era, at least people like him built something. A century later, the people
