As I’ve written before, I’ve often wondered what it was like to see a free country slide into authoritarianism around you — and in the past 18 months, I’ve got to see exactly what it’s like. Australians, like the rest of the world, have been herded like
More than any other prime minister, Robert Menzies was responsible for putting Australia on the higher education map. Under Menzies, Australia’s universities tripled, and enrolments skyrocketed. True to Menzies’ word that “a university education is not, and certainly should not be, the perquisite of a privileged few,” and “finance
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern owes New Zealanders an apology for the slow vaccine rollout that has New Zealand at the bottom of the OECD. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday stood in front of media and apologised for the slow rollout saying “I’m sorry that we haven’
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When NZ’s version of Dancing With the Stars invited The BFD’s own Cam Slater to participate, he responded that he’d rather “poke pins in my eyes”. As Cam explained to BFD readers, “This network were happy to demonise me for years […] now they expect that I might
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Australia today has the pathetic honour of being the only country in the world which currently prohibits its citizens from foreign travel (excluding visiting New Zealand during the spasmodic bubble periods) without specific permission. They’re doing this under the provisions of the 2015 Biosecurity
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news A third of the nation is under house arrest and Western Australia bans political dissent from public venues. 1. The WA govt is censoring dissenting political opinions, with Hon Nick Goiran, MLC, W.A. Shadow Attorney General (Lib) 2. Albo claims no aged care nurses have
James Parker mercatornet.com James Parker was a gay rights’ activist. He now facilitates True Identity, an informal network that supports those struggling with sexuality & gender identity issues. In Western Australia, citizens are watching basic freedoms of speech, assembly, conscience, political belief, religious practice, and opinion unravel before their
We’re all familiar with the First Law of the Shed: never throw anything out — it might come in handy, one day. Science is a lot like a shed: you never know when some old, apparently useless thing will come in handy. In forensic science, for instance, evidence collected decades,
Is the “Stolen Generations” the biggest lie in Australian history? No-one seriously disputes the fact that many, many Aboriginal children were removed from their families in the middle decades of the 20th century. But, were they really “stolen”? Was it a deliberate policy of genocide? After all, a generation
Anyone remember Ken Done? The BFD’s readership is of an age that almost all of us remember the 80s, so you probably vaguely remember his twee, colourful cartoon koalas. Done is the former ad-man who made a motza out of doona covers and drink coasters, emblazoned with his
When I wrote, yesterday, that West Australian premier Mark McGowan is an elected dictator, dancing to the tune of his paymasters in Beijing, I worried that I was being hyperbolic. If anything, it appears that I was being cautious. Performers from regions annexed by China have been barred from appearing
Finally, some mainstream media reporters are catching on to what we’ve been reporting for more than a year: lockdowns do not work. Yes, I know I’ve said this before, but clearly I’ve got to keep saying it until the slow kids on the government benches catch on.
It’s a common trope of antipodean Porch Atheists to deny Australia’s Christian heritage. This is nonsense, of course. It’s true-ish to say that Australia is a secular democracy. It’s even more true that Australian culture has long nurtured a deep suspicion of overt public displays
As I wrote some time ago, the Chinese virus has sent West Australia spiralling into an elected dictatorship. Sick with both an unholy panic over the Wuhan plague and an infectious avarice for Beijing’s cash, the state has voted itself an increasingly arrogant dictator. Mark McGowan continually snipes at
