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Australia Has Torn up BRI Deal: Take Note, New Zealand

Australia Has Torn up BRI Deal: Take Note, New Zealand

In my recent posts, I have relentlessly excoriated the Ardern government for its Quisling stupidity regarding China. Lest BFD readers think I’m singling out New Zealand unfairly, I would point out that Australia has been there, too. Australia has learned the hard way from the same mistakes that New

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Travel Bubble: Swap Sheep Shagging for Cousins

Travel Bubble: Swap Sheep Shagging for Cousins

Another trans-Tasman bubble is reopening after being closed for a quarter-century. Direct flights from Auckland to Hobart resumed this week for the first time since 1996. Mind you, the aviation press don’t exactly seem to be doing their best to sell Tassie as a must-see destination for travel-starved Kiwis.

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China’s Lapdogs Are off the Leash

China’s Lapdogs Are off the Leash

As the Australian government is garnering attention and accolades around the world as a middle power nation standing firm against the global bully China, there is no shortage of Beijing’s useful idiots all-too-eager to try and pull the rug from under Canberra’s feet. Some of them are home-grown:

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I’m Sure It’s Just Another Conspiracy Theory…

I’m Sure It’s Just Another Conspiracy Theory…

Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Somehow, as we are all too well aware, that morphed into weeks, months and now nearly two years and counting of lockdowns, restrictions, mandatory masks and plainclothes coppers kicking down the doors of pregnant mums in Ballarat and slapping them in cuffs. At

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Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

We all know that academia has long since become little more than a taxpayer-funded circle-jerk for people who’d rather collect PhDs than actually work for a living in the real world. To some extent we could live with that: if only the onanistic eggheads kept their furious masturbation to

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Five Eyes: Ardern in Damage Control Mode

Five Eyes: Ardern in Damage Control Mode

Nobody told me there’d be days like these: strange days, indeed… John Lennon We live in strange times, my friends. Women have penises, men get pregnant and our Australia’s one-time bitterest enemy has become our best friend; while our erstwhile best friend plays Mean Girl and runs off

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Australia Desperately Needs Workforce Gender Quotas

Australia Desperately Needs Workforce Gender Quotas

It’s obvious that Australia needs to urgently adopt gender-based employment quotas in order to address the growing gender imbalance in our workforce. As the economy begins to struggle out of the self-inflicted disaster of the Wuhan plague, it’s clear that one half of the population is being left

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Morrison Tries an Each Way Bet on Emissions Policy

Morrison Tries an Each Way Bet on Emissions Policy

Remember when Scott Morrison shocked the green-left by bringing a lump of coal into parliament? Whatever happened to that guy? Coalition voters would gladly trade Scott Morrison the climate warrior for the woeful Scotty from Marketing they ended up with: continually spooked into submission on every woke issue. Especially climate

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Kiwi Kow-Tow With a Triple Obeisance

Kiwi Kow-Tow With a Triple Obeisance

As other BFD contributors have noted, the Ardern government is letting New Zealand’s traditional alliances drift away, even as those allies are engaging in region-shaping new partnerships. While New Zealand’s strongest historical partner is in the thick of a, shall we say, robust dialogue with an aggressive, expansionist

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The Elite Hate Populism… Because It’s Popular

The Elite Hate Populism… Because It’s Popular

“Populism” has been furrowing the brows of the great and good of the elite ever since Trump, Brexit and Bolsonaro. But what is it? If we are to believe the left-media, it’s virtually synonymous with “fascism”, “Nazism”, and every other “ism” the media are too ignorant to understand but

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‘Vaccine Passports Are Just a Consp–’

‘Vaccine Passports Are Just a Consp–’

How do free countries slide into dictatorship? One goose-step at a time. At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, it’s nonetheless true that European Jews did not just wake up one morning and find themselves being marched into cattle-trucks out of nowhere. The “Final Solution” was the culmination

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More Standards Than Chins on the Left

More Standards Than Chins on the Left

Dorothy Parker famously said that “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”. By which she meant that, while physical beauty might be on the surface only, a person that is an ugly, unpleasant miserable human being is that way all the way through. As we’

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It’s Not Racism: Violent African Crime Is a Hard Fact

It’s Not Racism: Violent African Crime Is a Hard Fact

In a time of universal deceit, as Orwell said, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Well folks, we indeed live in a time of near-universal deceit. Not least that the people who pose as revolutionaries are really the Establishment – and the one thing they really hate is people who

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