It’s getting hard for satirists to keep ahead of the left. Even the magnificent Titania McGrath, and The Babylon Bee, have barely managed to keep one step ahead of the left’s descent into barking madness. Indeed, their satire has been so frequently mistaken for the real thing that
Let’s get this straight: the ABC is biased. This is beyond obvious – except to the ABC. Any suggestion that the ABC might be even the teensiest bit biased is met with furious denial from its tiny cohort of dedicated “friends” in the inner suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne. And
Jacinda Ardern is not the only trying to pull a swifty over electric cars versus utes. Notoriously, Ardern is trying to subsidise luxury EV cars for wealthy people at the expense of tradies and ordinary car-owners. Which is exactly what her dewy-eyed fans across the ditch at Australia’s ABC
So “anchor babies” are now a thing in Australia. For years, Australia has been praised or damned, depending on one’s political leanings, for its “tough” border policies. Certainly, the policies have been sufficient to end — twice — the more than daily arrivals of boats of illegal immigrants. But the truly
This year’s G7 summit should be of special interest to New Zealanders, not because of who was there and what was discussed — but who and what wasn’t. The G7 itself includes, of course, Britain, the US, Canada and Japan. This year Australia was invited for the second time
The issue of Islam and domestic violence briefly stirred the cobwebs in the heads of Australia’s chattering classes a few years back. First, a Muslim cleric lectured that it was OK for Muslim men to beat their wives into submission, if they refused sex, for instance. Then a pair
Yesterday, The BFD reported that senior Labor senator Penny Wong had condemned the Queensland branch of the party for parroting “talking points disseminated by Hamas”. Now, Labor elder statesman Bob Carr is furiously denying the obvious: anti-Semitism is a spreading stain on the Labor party. Former foreign minister Bob Carr
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Credit where it’s due to Penny Wong, for being one of the few senior Labor figures to stand up to the left’s almost-complete surrender to anti-Semitism. Wong can be just as grubbily opportunist as any politician: she opposed gay marriage right up to the point that it was
If there’s one thing Daniel Andrews’s government is good at, it’s avoiding responsibility for its catastrophic stuff-ups. Victoria’s second wave of the Wuhan plague made it the far and away worst performer in all of Australia. Victoria recorded twice the infections and nine times the deaths
The Wuhan pandemic has given birth to some grim side-effects: Mask Karens, Vaxholes, the Sanctimonious TikTok Nurse… But the grimmest is surely the Bureaucratic COVID Dictator. You know the ones I mean: standing at their little podiums day after day during lockdowns, wearing a lab coat with the price tag
Chris Trotter has got Scott Morrison dancing with the Evangelicals. Would he rather he danced with the devil? Trotter thinks the Book of Revelation has got a lot to do with the Coalition’s foreign policy in standing up to China over various issues like the origin of Covid and
Are Australians ready to go to jail for expressing opinions which displease the government? Popular, even if maybe wrong opinions? Because that’s exactly what the bonkers bureaucrats at Australia’s drug regulator are hinting at. Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is considering referring Facebook posts
The COVID-19 vaccines are, like, the safest things in the history of medicine ever. If you harbour even the slightest doubt, even if you get all your other shots religiously, then you’re a wicked, horrible, granny-killing, baby-eating, kitten-trampling ANTI-VAXXER and you deserve to spend the rest of your life
Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is former member of NZ First and worked as a parliamentary researcher to Winton Peters from 2011 to 2013. He has a Masters in Politics from the University of Auckland. His thesis examined class voting
It’s like the plot of one of those cheesy disaster or horror movies. You know, where the shonky mayor or property developer builds a skyscraper on top of an active volcano, or a housing development on an old Indian burial ground. Of course, we’re talking about Victoria, where
