Days ago, a Victorian Supreme Court challenge against that state’s lockdown laws was dismissed. While that case is headed for appeal, a second challenge to the iron rule of Premier Daniel Andrews is headed for court. This time, against the shocking decision to impose yet another dusk-to-dawn curfew on
Among the many great characters created by satirical British comic, Viz, is “The Parkie”. Look out! He’s a Right Bloody Bastard! warns the strapline. And he is: he spends his entire career raging at anyone who has the temerity to play, walk their dog, lie on the grass, or
As I’ve written several times before, Australia seems to be simultaneously cursed and blessed with two Scott Morrisons. On the blessing side, there’s Scott Morrison the international statesman, resolutely standing up to China’s bullying. But the curse is his evil twin, the Scotty from Marketing of domestic
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana famously wrote. Australians, by and large, are quite ignorant of their history. They have been condemned to repeat it, in the 2020s. After 230 years, Australia has reverted to being an island prison. And, in an echo
Victoria has become the police state of Australia. Last year the socialist Andrews government placed Melbourne under curfew for the first time in its history. Not even in the darkest days of WWII was such a dramatic stripping-away of basic human rights ever imposed. Now, he’s doing it again.
It was back in 2015 that Foreign Policy bluntly described Barack Obama’s foreign policy as a, and I quote, “giant cluster-fuck”. Welcome back to the future, courtesy of Obama’s Veep, Joe Biden. As Foreign Policy noted, Obama might have inherited a diabolical foreign policy situation — but he went
It’s a common fallacy to assume that dictators are never elected. In fact, some of the worst dictators were elected to power rather than seizing it by coup. Famously, the Nazis were elected, although, to be fair, it was as a minority party. But Mussolini’s Fascists were swept
Every day, it’s as if Einstein and Orwell collaborated on a pithy quote: “Two things are infinite: the universe and the ability of intellectuals to believe foolish things”. The latest — though certainly not the last nor, sadly, the least moronic — eructation of academic cretinism is a proposal to scrap
Julian Burnside is a darling of the Australian green-left. Wealthy lawyer, twice-failed Greens candidate, refugee activist, climate botherer — and frequently accused of anti-Semitism. Truly, he is the very model of a modern lefty-liberal. Anti-Semitism is on the rise across the world, nowhere more sharply and ominously than on the “liberal”
BFD commentators are a smart bunch. Recently a commentator made the fair point that the UK’s sudden reduction in Covid cases after removing restrictions could be explained by people having fewer tests. As I say, that’s a fair call. But it’s pretty difficult to use the same
Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita
Australia has made a very powerful enemy by standing up to the Chinese Communist Party. I’m talking, of course, about Australia’s own taxpayer-funded national broadcaster. If the princelings in Beijing are furious that Australia has challenged China over its culpability for the Wuhan plague, that’s nothing compared
When I was a teenager, we used to joke about “Queensland: the Police State”. This was, after all, the era when, as the Fitzgerald Inquiry showed, Queensland police and politicians were neck-deep in vice and corruption. The Bjelke-Petersen state government banned public assemblies without permits and police mounted military-style raids
