In 2015, Australians got a practice run of Trump Derangement Syndrome. We even coined the phrase, except that we dubbed it “Abbott Derangement Syndrome”. Anything Tony Abbott said was guaranteed to send the left and their lickspittle media into fits of screeching outrage. No matter how commonsense or prosaic the
Remember when you were a kid, and your mum asked: if your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? The green-left would already be hurtling down the precipice before they stopped to say “Yes!” Germany jumped off the “renewable” cliff, long ago, with Britain at their heels.
The three years of the Covid pandemic have been an instructive masterclass in the madness of elites. Every supposedly responsible group, from governments to “expert advisers”, collectively lost their heads and ran hysterically screaming to the worst possible policy prescriptions imaginable. One of the stupidest ideas of this conglomeration of
I’m pretty sure Thomas Sowell doesn’t know everything — but what he doesn’t know about certain topics probably isn’t worth knowing. Especially economics. Sowell’s Basic Economics is foundational reading. In it, he devotes an entire chapter to examining the fallacies of government interference in the housing
A problem solved is an existential crisis for an activist. Especially an activist on a fat government pension. After all, if such an activist admitted that the problem they were employed to solve had gone away, or at least dwindled to such an infinitesimal degree that it was literally “micro”
Remember Helen Clark’s “incredibly benign strategic environment” zinger? Oh, how we all laughed. If only we were laughing about Helen’s spiritual offspring, Jacinda Ardern, and her similarly clueless foreign policy witterings. As Australian journalist Nick Cater writes, if Ardern’s recent speech on China is a genuine expression
Anyone who thinks Australia is set for a bright new dawn in China relations, with the election of Anthony “Mr 32%” Albanese, is kidding themselves. China is carrying right on with its bullying ways. The only difference is that now they’ve got the government they paid for — one which
Every time they open their mouths, the “Voice” gets worse. Anthony Albanese has apparently learned one thing from Jacinda Ardern: if you’re going to impose apartheid on your nation, do it by stealth. Whatever you do, don’t let the voters in on it. Most of all, never, ever
Anthony Albanese seems in an awful rush. Perhaps he senses that his prime ministership hangs by the barest threads. After all, his primary vote at the election was the lowest in 100 years — and the Labor party hasn’t exactly been kind to its own prime ministers, lately. So he
As Jacinda Ardern continues to try and dance along a barbed-wire fence with a leg in each paddock, the rip in her undies is getting harder to hide. Ardern and her Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta have spent the last few years playing an increasingly threadbare game of bowing first to
A senior Australian politician has urged Anthony Albanese’s government not to “capitulate to the demands of Jacinda Ardern” over 501 deportations, foreshadowing the domestic political battle Labor may face if it makes tweaks to the controversial policy. Newshub Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would
My, my, how the tables turn… was it really only just a few months ago that opposition leader Anthony Albanese was sitting smugly on the sidelines, sniping at Prime Minister Scott Morrison for being overseas during a disaster, and only returning to stage photo opportunities in the disaster area? Remember
No one likes a liar, especially one who has claimed she never tells lies. Yet that is precisely what she did as she gracelessly attacked former Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison seeking to ingratiate herself with the new one, Anthony Albanese. It was a whopper of a lie too. Prime
Contrary to mythology, the quintessential Australian isn’t a rugged Outback type laconically shrugging off adversity with a “She’ll be right”. It’s an outraged suburbanite, shrieking that “The gummint should do somethin’!” Australia has long been one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Even by the
