Capitalist Yesterday would have been the 100th birthday of a former Australian Senator called Neville Bonner who represented Queensland in the Senate for around 12 years. He was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Parliament, replacing the first woman to represent Queensland in Parliament. He was a conservative representing
We all know that teenagers, girls especially, are faddists. We also know that they don’t know much: that’s why we send them to school. Science also tells us that teenagers have under-developed brains, are driven to seek social acceptance, and are physically incapable of thinking things through and
It’s looking like 2019, all over again. If only we could go back to those happy, pre-Covid mandate times. What I’m talking about, though, are the pre-election opinion polls. Once again, the media and pollsters would have us believe that Labor has the election in the bag. Is
As I wrote recently, one implication of the recent South Australian election is that the political covid party is over. Voters are no longer gratefully flocking to leaders who lock them down, muzzle them up and coerce them into getting dodgy vaccines. But there’s another lesson from SA: one
The Labor landslide in last weekend’s state election in South Australia is being touted as a harbinger for Scott Morrison, but maybe it’s Jacinda Ardern who should really be worried. Not to mention Dan Andrews. It’s par for the course for pundits to try and extrapolate state
Whenever a natural disaster strikes, our media are immediately certain of two things: it’s all because of climate change and Scott Morrison. The people on the fireground and in the mud aren’t so gullible. Just 11 per cent of people in flood-struck Brisbane, northern NSW and western Sydney
Despite the endless yammering of the left, Australia not only “recognises” its “first peoples”, it can’t shut up about them. Everything from football games to school awards nights to something as mundane as a plane flight is marked by the sonorous genuflecting to “traditional owners” and “Elders past, present
I spent a great deal of my childhood and early teens in the Otway Ranges, the belt of temperate rainforested hills that are the northern half of the spectacular scenery of the Great Ocean Road. BFD readers might remember seeing the Otways in the horrifying firestorms of Ash Wednesday. In
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I often suspect that the reason so many feminists think all men are “toxic” and “rapists” is that they judge all men by the odious creeps they associate with. And the reason the left think all politicians are bullies is because they similarly judge everyone by their own low standard.
When Labor senator Kimberley Kitching died last week, from a heart attack at the shockingly young age of 52, tributes flowed for a politician who was respected on both sides of the political aisle. Or was she? There are damning allegations that Kitching’s death was at the very least
Australia has just had a rare outbreak of common sense from the courts. The latest, spurious attempt at vexatious watermelon lawfare — using children as its sock-puppets, as usual — has been dismissed. Once again, the leftist white-anting of Victoria’s legal system is being exposed. The Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley
When police officer Zachary Rolfe was cleared this week of murdering Arnold “Kumanjayi Walker”, the only real surprise was that he had ever been charged in the first place. Rolfe shot Walker at the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendemu, when Walker stabbed him and a fellow officers with scissors.
What are the “Fact Checkers” lying about, today? Ha, trick question: it’s easier to count what they’re not lying about. Because, as I keep reminding you, so-called “Fact Checkers” are in reality “Narrative Confirmation Machines”. None more so than Australia’s own taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network broadcaster, the
As the classic 80s ad catchphrase went, “It’s your money, Ralph!” Ah, the Victorian State Bank… if only they’d made investment decisions as well as they made ads… there might still be a Victorian State Bank. The collapse of the Victorian State Bank was just one of the
Not long ago, I posed the question: could you live without The Machine? A reference to E. M. Forster’s story of the same, the “Machine” is the modern, interconnected world, with the internet reaching into every aspect of our lives. Well, the gods not being without a certain sense
