As I wrote months back, Victoria’s “Dictator Dan” Andrews has an unexpected comedic streak. Because it surely couldn’t have been with a straight face when he said that Victoria had “higher standards” in its hotel quarantine scheme than the rest of Australia. Not just higher standards — a gold
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
Here in Australia, we’re currently battling multiple cost-of-living crises: house prices, rents, fuel, food, electricity… How bad is Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand, if our crises seem like a land of milk and honey by comparison? The cost of living crisis under Jacinda Ardern’s government in
What’s the best way to announce to an unwilling world that you’re willing to fly thousands of miles to turn your backside into a 24/7, all-access sperm bank? To answer the question that absolutely nobody wanted to know, just turn to the ABC. Queenslanders at risk
How deep should the taxpayer go to bail people out of the consequences of their own foolish decisions? All the way, it seems. The Bible warns against foolish people who build their houses on foundations of sand. Then there are the people who build their houses on floodplains – and are
Remember, Victorians, when you weren’t allowed to visit your dying mothers? When you had to watch your grannie’s funeral over Zoom? When you could be arrested for playing golf, going to the beach, or taking your kid for a driving lesson? Well, you can take some comfort that
What is it with lockdown-addicted socialists and collapsing hospital systems? It may be cold comfort to BFD readers to know that Jacinda Ardern is not the only leader presiding over a snowballing hospital disaster. Three guesses who’s racing her to the bottom… Doctors have warned patients have been
As many of you no doubt knew, yesterday was Vietnam Veterans’ Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the heroic defence at the Battle of Long Tan. In Australia, opposition leader Peter Dutton attended a memorial service at his local RSL. Former Nationals leader and current Shadow Minister for Veterans’
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
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
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
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
