So, Australians are going to their first referendum in 20 years, on a so-called “Aboriginal Voice”. What is it, exactly? Nobody will say. How will it actually function? Nobody seems to know. Who will be eligible and why? Don’t ask. In fact, PM Anthony Albanese is almost honest: if
Once again, Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance is at the centre of a political storm. At the heart of the storm, once again, is CEO Dean Lee. When Lee announced a plan to light the Shrine up in “Pride” colours, the reaction was swift and furious. Large swathes of the
Their ABC is at it again with the fake news. This time, it’s the gas crisis they’re misleading us about. Fake news, remember, is not just outright lies: it’s also lying by omission. Leaving key facts out of a story in order to push a narrative is
With the excellent Better Call Saul finally reaching its conclusion, I’ve been taking the time to re-watch (again) progenitor Breaking Bad, easily the most significant television show since Twin Peaks. At its heart, Breaking Bad is a story of hubris: the arrogance that leads inexorably to downfall. On re-watch,
Well, I’m not one to never admit when I’m wrong. I recently reported that Australia’s 47th parliament was “a parliament of clowns and one firebrand”. In fact, there’s two firebrands. The first, of course, is veteran senator Pauline Hanson, who outraged the woke by storming out
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. Deborah Birx was the White House Covid-19 response coordinator under President Donald Trump. Jeffrey Tucker recently wrote a brutal takedown of her deliberate misrepresentations
The usual suspects are at it again in Australia after Pauline Hanson refused to accept Acknowledgement of Country – a silly woke sop to Aborigines – and stormed out of the Senate chamber. It was brilliantly reported on the BFD by Lushington Brady on Thursday in an in-depth article. In recent weeks,
Oh, no! The intersectional peasants are revolting and the left elite know just where to turn: to racism. Normally when a group of Christians rebel against ribbon-bully forced “inclusion”, it’s a doddle for the left to decide who to side with: Christians contend with straight white males for the
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye? — Matthew 7:4 As Matthew reminds us, it’s easy to criticise others while ignoring our own glaring faults. Especially when it comes to
In his classic adventure novel, Glory Road, Robert Heinlein’s narrator reflects on his service in an unnamed war in South-East Asia: It wasn’t a war – not even a “Police Action.” We were “Military Advisers.” But a Military Adviser who has been dead four days in that heat smells
What if they built a gulag and nobody came? In news that should surprise absolutely no-one who’s ever watched a government at “work”, Queensland’s $220 million dollar Covid quarantine camp is set to close for lack of “guests”. That’s despite the government’s lease running for at
It was only a matter of time before the Chinese Communist Party really came for Drew Pavlou. Pavlou is the Australian human rights activist who first came to attention when he was a student, subjected to an extraordinary campaign of harassment from University of Queensland, after he organised protests against
Remember when football players played football? No, neither do I. For the last decade and more, professional sport in Australia has become nothing but a bandwagon for every “progressive” nonsense under the rainbow, with the occasional match almost as an afterthought. Once again, wokeism is making a laughing-stock out of
Well, the 47th Parliament is underway and Day Two is giving us a pretty good idea of what to expect. Most of it is shaping up to be as awful as we expected, but there’s also some indication that we can expect some satisfying fireworks in the Senate. The
Viv Forbes Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle, or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-making processes have been aided recently by two extra factors. Firstly, a
