One thing you can’t accuse the Australian or New Zealand governments of is quick thinking. Despite her retrospective claims of “hardernurly” lockdowns in 2020, the timeline shows that Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks before announcing the first Level 4 lockdowns. Not coincidentally, the first lockdowns occurred around the time
There’s an old anecdote about a visitor to Maoist China noting all the workers toiling with buckets and spades to dig a massive dam. Why not get a couple of bulldozers? he asks. Because, the cadre replies, then we wouldn’t have full employment. It’s easy to laugh
Watching the violent protests in Melbourne on Monday it was easy to imagine we’d been transported to 1980s Belfast. Reading the media-political reaction, it was even easier to imagine that we were back in the USSR. If the sight of paramilitary police firing rubber bullets at protesters isn’t
Information This article was submitted to both NZ Herald and The Spinoff. Obviously, it didn’t suit their narrative. “You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.” Betty Boothroyd, Former Speaker of the House of Commons.
Andy Mullins mercatornet.com Dr Andy Mullins now works with parents and university students in Melbourne and teaches the Formation of Character course at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney. Formerly he was headmaster of Redfield and Wollemi Colleges in Sydney. He is the author of Parenting for Character.
Graham Hryce rt.com Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant. Information Op-Ed Parents were once thought to know what’s best for their children. That now
If you thought the Chinese were miffed at the AUKUS alliance, they’ve got nothing on the French. Nobody throws a hissy-fit quite like the French. Gallic displays of outraged hauteur are almost as legendary as France’s ability to run up the white flag. So, when Australia said non
As reported recently in The BFD, the two major Australian parties have colluded on new electoral rules clearly designed to freeze out minor parties. No such party is a greater target than the Liberal Democrats, who’ve previously been a gadfly in the ointment of the nanny-staters on both sides
Australia, the US and Britain have announced a historic new military alliance – one that explicitly relegates New Zealand to the sidelines. New Zealanders can thank Jacinda Ardern and her Labour predecessors for turning their country into, at best, a strategic irrelevance, at worst, a client state of communist China. It
So much for equality before the law. It’s becoming more and more apparent, on both sides of the Tasman, that there are two sets of laws – based entirely on race. A progressive apartheid, in other words. But where, 40 years ago, the New Zealand left protested vociferously against apartheid,
Just in case you haven’t got the message by now, there are pandemic rules for most of us, and quite different rules for the select few. If you’re an ordinary pleb, forget about going for your morning run, let alone to Granny’s funeral. If you’re one
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