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Labor Voters Turn to the ‘Fringe’

Labor Voters Turn to the ‘Fringe’

As I reported recently, even Labor insiders and unionists are warning the party leadership to drop the woke-ism and stop making policy in and for “inner-city coffee shops”. That covers everything from climate alarmism to radical gender theory. As former frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon warned, Labor’s brand is rapidly going

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Why Do Unemployed People Even Need Childcare?

Why Do Unemployed People Even Need Childcare?

You might wonder why two parents who aren’t working would even need childcare. After all, wasn’t the whole point of childcare to free up mothers to return to work? Ah, you see: that’s why you’re not an expert. You’re just not clever enough to understand

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#TheyFleeFromDan

#TheyFleeFromDan

It’s like watching the start of just about every zombie apocalypse movie: a montage of ever-more-urgent news reports, graphics of growing numbers of infected, footage of lines of cars fleeing the city. Except that the zombies in this case are very real: they’re the politicians and health bureaucrats

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Labor Needs to Get Out of the Cafes and Talk to Real Workers

Labor Needs to Get Out of the Cafes and Talk to Real Workers

As I wrote recently for Insight, we are almost uniformly represented by fools with zero real-world experience. These credentialled ignoramuses go direct from university to politics, skillfully avoiding ever working in a ‘real’ job. It’s a problem that afflicts all sides of politics but is especially acute for the

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Noel Pearson: Make Education Great Again

Noel Pearson: Make Education Great Again

Lawyer and academic Noel Pearson has laid down the law to education bureaucrats: drop the “progressiveness” and go back to what we know works. I disagree with Noel Pearson about many things, “Indigenous Voice” especially, but his challenge to education bureaucrats is right on the money. Noel Pearson has issued

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Andrew Bolt: Race Politics in Australia ‘Completely Mad’

Andrew Bolt: Race Politics in Australia ‘Completely Mad’

You’ve got to admire Andrew Bolt’s cojones, if nothing else. After all, when Bolt was coward-punched by two Antifa soy-boys in the street, he wasted no time spinning around and dropping one of the would-be attackers like a sack of potatoes. In 2011, Bolt was famously convicted of

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Victoria’s Outbreak Grows More Ominous by the Day

Victoria’s Outbreak Grows More Ominous by the Day

As I wrote yesterday, it’s looking more and more like a case of Back to the COVID Future in Victoria. Hotel quarantine stuff-ups, restrictions, masks and a government that can’t sort its arse from its elbow: we’ve read this script before. The moral of the story is

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Fake News and Arrogance From ‘Their’ ABC

Fake News and Arrogance From ‘Their’ ABC

Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster appears to be increasingly out of control. Editorial independence is one thing: sloppy, wildly biased journalism and an utter refusal to concede or retract errors is another. One only need listen to the ABC’s coverage of Israeli issues to see its bias: reports on the

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Victoria: Here We Go Again. Again

Victoria: Here We Go Again. Again

Once is an accident, twice a coincidence: but if Victoria gets hit with yet another wave of the Wuhan virus, then that’s just sheer, staggering incompetence. Victoria is far and away Australia’s worst-performing state in the COVID pandemic: more than twice the number of infections and a shocking

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Celebrity Doesn’t Want Plebs Near His Beach

Celebrity Doesn’t Want Plebs Near His Beach

Some years ago, the British comic Viz ran a story: “Poor people ruining the planet for celebrities”. The story focused on how celebrities couldn’t fly their private jets or gaze from the windows of their country estates without seeing disgusting ordinary people in the far distance. Once again, reality

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Digital Handcuffs

Digital Handcuffs

Viv Forbes A passport was once highly valued by travellers, but not compulsory. Signed by the sovereign, it said: “The bearer of this passport has my protection. He is free to travel anywhere. Do not pester him (or her).” Gradually passports became compulsory bureaucratic tools to control and track international

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The Grim Reality of Black Privilege

The Grim Reality of Black Privilege

A recent BFD “Daily Roundup” post contrasted the laundry list of Maori-only benefits in New Zealand with the supposed “white privilege” of non-Maori. Like most jokes, it contained a not-so-subtle barb of truth. As Orwell wrote, “A thing is funny when…it upsets the established order. Every joke is a

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Fact Check: Does George Christensen’s Bill Force Medical Intervention When There’s No Chance of Survival?

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then CEO

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Masks: More Useless Than Ever

Masks: More Useless Than Ever

Masks have become the yellow stars, the keffiyehs and the awareness ribbons, all rolled into one, of the Wuhan plague. Despite the spurious appeals to “science” (the evidence has been and remains at best equivocal, most reliably negative), the real reason for mask mandates has at last been laid bare:

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