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
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
“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
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
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’
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
If the climate change and Wuhan pandemic debacles have taught us anything, it’s that computer modelling is garbage. Shiny, high-tech garbage, but garbage still. Climate models have consistently failed to match the real-world – and they’re getting worse. Pandemic modelling is an embarrassing farce that regularly exaggerates real-world events
It’s not often that Tasmania’s state elections garner much attention. After all, as I often say, Tasmanian politics is a blend of local council and Special Needs school. But, as the documentary Rats in the Ranks showed, local council politics can be every bit as vicious as Washington
As I’ve written many times, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than a barking-mad conspiracy theory. Leaving aside its unabashed racism and lunatic Marxist ideology, practically none of its claims of “systemic racism” stand up to serious scrutiny. The Australian left, sheep-like as ever, have naturally flocked to the
Despite the Philistine chest-thumping of the CodeBros and “IFL Science” types, the Humanities are essential to saving Western culture. Or, at least, they should be. The problem is that the Humanities have been subjected to a decades-long assault by the Long March left. To the point that Humanities faculties today
Joe Biden is the new ‘Pinocchio’. Pinocchio was a wooden puppet in an Italian children’s story written in 1883 by Carlo Collodi. Pinnochio wanted to be a boy not a puppet, and the “Blue” Fairy (Kamala Harris) by magic granted his wish. Jiminy Cricket (his conscience) was supposed to
All sorts of dodgy types seem to exploit Australia’s charity regulations and reap tax-free windfalls. Whether it’s hardline leftists who repeatedly harass and bully Coalition politicians or “fauxborigines” who leverage their dubious “Indigenous” status and run what appear to be little better than shelf companies milking millions in
On the face of it, Josh Bornstein would seem to be an ideal fit for a Labor candidate: member of a progressive think tank, union lawyer, prolific and often vicious tweeter But Bornstein’s bid for a Labor Senate spot is foundering between the Charybdis of Labor factional politics and
This week two politicians, one on each side of both the Tasman and the political aisles, announced that they had been diagnosed with aggressive cancers. Both announced that they would be stepping back from their political duties while they sought treatment. But the very different reactions to each spoke volumes.
The 2020 Pacific Islands Forum might in retrospect be seen as an opening skirmish in China’s diplomatic and trade war against Australia. The forum hosted an unseemly display of “gibsmedat” Pacific tinpot panjandrums lining up to harangue Australia while Chinese “wolf warrior” diplomats cheerfully threw wads of cash into
