If you’ve ever wanted to get an idea of the sheer size of modern wind turbines, just pull your car over while a truck carrying a single blade crawls past, taking up most of the highway. Then remember that that’s just one blade, on one turbine, out of
When we talk about “fake news”, it’s important to keep in mind that fake news isn’t just “making things up”. In fact, the most damaging types of fake news are those which tell some of the truth, but leave out key information, over-emphasise others, in order to push
Australia got an early look-in on Trump Derangement Syndrome in 2013, when Tony Abbott was elected PM. Now we’re back to the usual game of the media-political class playing catch-up to America. Just as the American media are living in a parallel universe to the rest of the country,
Boy, the left really hate it when those coloured folks get all uppity and start thinking for themselves. Their disdain is almost as visceral as their hatred of “deplorable” lower-class whites. For a while, though, working-class whites were, as Julie Bindel pointed out, the only group the left would allow
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D. Brady The Lord’s Prayer and the Welcome to Country Which is better? Tribalism or universalism? The
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,
