As I wrote recently, with its poll fortunes reaching pre-2019 levels, the Coalition is in deep trouble, going into a likely May election. Morrison’s last big shot at repeating the 2019 “miracle win” was Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s budget. If Frydenberg tried the classic John Howard move of a
If hypocrisy was a renewable energy source, Parliament would power the world, in perpetuity. Of course, we all know that a politician is a hypocrite, but sometimes the sheer, colossal brass of some politicians sets a staggering new bar for chutzpah. Yesterday, Australia’s Senate was witness to a display
As Steven Crowder once pointed out, if “surveys” conducted by campus activists are to be believed, college campuses in the U.S. are even more dangerous for women than the Congo, where mass rape is a strategy. Before you can screech “MeToo!”, Australian media are splashing lurid headlines about “university
“At all times the Party is in possession of absolute truth […] Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth” — George Orwell, “1984” What is truth? That’s something that philosophers have argued over for millennia — and we’re still no further to settling it. But, apart from some
Einstein mused that stupidity was the most plentiful thing in the universe, but I’d suggest that hypocrisy is not far behind. Case in point: the tub-thumping, chest-beating outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Judging by the cacophony of outraged screeching that greeted Russian ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky’s first
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
If you have a great Youtube, Rumble, Odysee or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nzIf you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options.
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
