Are they softening Australia up to be the next Netherlands? For months, much as the legacy media have tried to downplay it, the Netherlands have been rocked by protests by farmers and, spreading out to other groups, from truckers to firefighters. Far from dying down, the protesters are promising their
Ramesh Thakur brownstone.org Ramesh Thakur, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, is emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. In the first year of the pandemic, a team from Otago University in New Zealand (my former university) published an interesting study that provided
As exposed by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo (See the BFD), the public school system in Oregon in the USA is pushing a radical queer theory indoctrination on children from kindergarten on. This should be no surprise to BFD readers. We’ve already exposed the sinister “Mates and Dates” programme
I’m very familiar with Launceston’s synagogue – but only in the most superficial way. I’ve passed the modest little building in St John Street many, many times (it’s right next door to the old Tiger Hobbies shop, after all). For all that, I’ve never really given
Who do you think the green-left would prefer as permanent residents of Australia? A hardworking family who came to the country legally as a skilled worker, and who’ve paid their own way? Or a duo of illegal immigrants, one of them a former member of a terrorist group, who
Pride, as they say, cometh before a fall. And in democracies, governments with absolute power almost inevitably do an Icarus act: overreaching and plummeting into the sea of electoral wipeout. In 2004, the Howard government reached the zenith of its power, winning control of both houses of parliament. It used
So, what’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese up to, right now? Well, no one’s really sure. In fact, even his whereabouts are more closely guarded than Clarke Gayford’s, or which local school Jacinda Ardern will be slipping in and out of, for her next photo-op. You see, after
If there’s one thing the bourgeois chattering classes know, it’s that they know better than anyone else. On any given topic, no matter how removed from their experience, the middle-class left’s ruling conceit is that they’re more knowledgeable and wise than anyone else. Hence, we get
You know you’ve reached a saturation-point of Wokery when even the intersectional voodoo dolls start pulling the pins. Senator Pauline Hanson’s furious reaction to the fatuous “Acknowledgment of Country” at the opening of the most recent Senate might have set heads wagging and brows furrowing on the left,
Krystle Mitchell learned very early on just how much a controlling state bureaucracy can blight lives. As a ward of the state, even something as routine as a sleepover or a school excursion was a bureacratic nightmare of paperwork and police checks. Very early on, Mitchell’s social workers noted
“Cultural appropriation” is one of the direst sins of Wokeism, outside of the plethora of “-isms” and “-phobias”, anyway. But what about racial appropriation? The early adopters, the trailblazers as it were, of racial appropriation, Rachel Dolezal and Oli London, were pilloried for their racial transitions. But there’s a
jacintaprice.com Australia’s new Aboriginal MP was hailed for delivering one of the greatest maiden speeches in the country’s history. She said she’d had enough of being symbolically recognised because of her race and that the pointless and widespread virtue signalling of identity politics had to stop.
Just to brighten your weekend, mostly by showing you that, however bad things are in Wellington, they could always be worse. BFD readers, please enjoy all the antics, japes, capers and pratfalls of politics, Canberra style. First off, PM Anthony Albanese is doing what he does best: skiving off and
Australia is governed by children. Shrieking, squalling, attention-seeking, and very, very, very silly children. And that’s just the Prime Minister. Anthony Albanese was criticised for his “shouty” behaviour during debates, before the election. Since finally returning to Australian soil after the election, he’s quickly earned the sobriquet, “Shouty
Remember when Kevin Rudd was going to end the climate wars? Then it was Julia Gillard’s turn. This time, they insisted, they were on “the right side of history” (a phrase I indelibly associate with the uber-Aryan Hitler Youth of Cabaret, singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”). We all know
