The police are supposed to be the thin blue line that stands between law-abiding citizens and criminal anarchy. In Australia, though, it’s become the thin blue protection racket standing between the Establishment Left and anyone who dares challenge them. In Wellington, too, police filmed themselves exchanging triumphant high-fives after
Australia clearly doesn’t have enough jihadis — because the Albanese government seems pretty keen to import more. One of Anthony Albanese’s first virtue-signals after his 32% election win was granting permanent residence to a confessed former member of the Tamil Tiger terrorist group who’d entered Australia illegally and
They seek him here, they seek him there Those Frenchies seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive Pimpernel. New Zealand has its very own, well, maybe not Scarlet Pimpernel, but Red Shrinking Violet. PM Jacinda Ardern has of late developed an amazing
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Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. When it passed in the Victorian parliament in 2017, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act must have been one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in Australian history. Lobbying on both sides was intense;
I was never a fan of The Footy Show, and for the longest time, I particularly detested co-host Sam Newman. But, much later, I read some interviews with him and came to reappraise my dislike. Firstly, I realised that he, just like Jeremy Clarkson, is to a large part playing
“The words of this wizard stand on their heads… In the language of Orthance help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. As scholar Tom Shippey points out, Saruman is the most “modern” character of The Lord of the
Oh, boy… I’m really setting myself up for the obvious “Tasmanian” jokes, with this one. Which would be pretty rich, really, coming from a country where there are five times as many sheep as people. But, c’mon, let’s get serious: this is not a joking matter. A
Boy, they like to keep it in the family in the Labor party. I’m not talking about Mahuta Inc., but the other side of the Tasman. The Labor party is notorious for its incestuous relationship with the supposedly impartial ABC — a host of Labor pollies and senior ABC journos
Nothing tells me more that Labor are losing confidence in their “Indigenous Voice” referendum than the fact that they’re trying to change the rules ahead of the vote. Australia’s founding fathers wisely set a very high bar for referendums. Because Constitutional change should never be taken lightly. Australians
I recently wrote about how toxic New Zealand’s political class have become. Especially in directly inverse proportion to their self-serving witterings about “kindness”. Australia’s aren’t any better, of course. And, just like New Zealand’s, the more self-righteous they are, the bigger bullies they are. Especially behind
It’s a bit of a silly season in Australian politics, right now. Spring marks when the nation’s rival football codes, Australian Rules and Rugby League (oh, come on: the only time anyone even pretends to be interested in soccer is when the World Cup is on) both have
Well, I’ll be buttered on both sides! The ABC is almost telling the truth about “renewables”! No, they’re not telling the truth about the massive pollution in developing countries caused by mining and manufacturing components for windmills and solar panels. And no, they’re not telling the truth
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More and more public figures are admitting what we at The BFD have been telling you since April 2020: lockdowns didn’t work. In fact, it’s becoming widely – if tacitly – accepted even in polite circles that they didn’t just not work, they were a disaster. Of course there
As (black) American scholars like Wilfred Reilly, Roland G Fryer and Thomas Sowell vainly keep trying to point out, nearly every “racial disparity” can be easily explained – and not by “race”. Contrary to the Critical Race Theory assumption that “systemic racism” underlies every group difference, real or imagined, there’s
