Yet more of the chickens of corruption are coming home to roost in Victoria, with the first high-profile acquittal following from the “Lawyer X” scandal. Jailed big wig Tony Mokbel has had his conviction quashed over a cocaine importation which led him to skip the country during his trial. Mokbel
Nationals senator Matt Canavan is not one of the Coalition’s shrinking violets. The former Resources Minister has been quite prepared to take the stick to rent-seeking energy companies and mining billionaires giving free propaganda leg-ups to Chinese communist bullies. Canavan has more recently pushed the federal government to tear
The Chinese Communist Party may have bought the undying loyalty of some politicians and mining magnates, but their trade and diplomatic assault on Australia is rapidly hardening resolve on the home front. And at least some in the business community are trying to do their bit. While Twiggy Forrest sneaks
Asking if Australia’s taxpayer-funded media is biased is a bit like asking if water is wet. Everyone knows it is, but anyone who says so out loud is immediately hit with a barrage of “Define wet!” type challenges and assertions that, in someone’s distant memory, it was a
“Trust the science!” is the great conceit of the contemporary left. But – leaving aside that the left are awfully picky about science when it comes to, say, gender ideology – how can we “trust the science” when Australia’s peak science body is so obviously trying to baffle us with bullshit?
“Asymmetric warfare” is a well-known concept in international relations – but does it apply in economic warfare as well as military conflict? Asymmetric warfare is war between combatants whose relative military strength, or tactics and strategy differ significantly. Commonly, between professional armies and militias or insurgents. Paradoxically, asymmetric warfare often benefits
The Labor party in Australia is floundering because it’s forgotten who it is meant to be: but the Liberal party is rapidly following them down the slippery slope of blandness. Labor is facing electoral irrelevance because it’s turned its back on the workers. So is the Liberal party.
As the backlash against the Morrison government over its mishandling of the Brereton report grows, the parliamentary gynarchy is swinging into action. The military community are furious that the report, alleging war crimes committed in Afghanistan by Australian Special Forces soldiers, was made public before its allegations were properly investigated.
It’s not just in New Zealand that ham-fisted, bungling Keystone Kops are screwing up firearms registration – and punishing law-abiding gun owners for the Plod’s own failings. As has been laid bare in recent days, NZ police bungling allowed Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant to amass his armoury without being
Australia’s Islamic representatives are in damage control mode after leading Islamic scholars published a document which generated immediate condemnation. Many critics questioned why Islamic scholars are issuing “guidelines” for something which is already well-defined in Australian law – the law which is supposed to apply to all Australians. For critics,
Ayo Adedoyin mercatornet.com Ayo Adedoyin is Chief Executive of PSJ UK, a humanitarian organisation campaigning against the persecution of Christians and other minorities in Nigeria. You might not know it, but a silent slaughter is currently underway in Nigeria — a slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians. Take Haruna Kuye, a
As asked on The BFD recently, why can’t the media admit that they got it wrong on the Cardinal George Pell case? Australia’s taxpayer-funded media in particular, pursued Pell with a venom we hadn’t seen since they decided Lindy Chamberlain was too frumpy-looking to be innocent. Whether
“Chairman Dan” Andrews, the Victorian premier, seems only too willing to turn his state into a puppet of Beijing. He’s got plenty of fellow-travellers working with him behind the scenes. The Andrews government minister who played a key role in negotiations with China over Victoria’s Belt and Road
Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-back against the
In few policy areas is the yawning dissonance between the elites and ordinary Australians so stark as on immigration. Both major parties, big business and the media just love mass immigration – the more massive the better. Ordinary people, on the other hand, are not so favourable. Opinion poll after poll
With Abdul Nacer Benbrika, the leader of one of Australia’s largest terror cells, nearing the end of his sentence, authorities are facing yet another instance of a growing problem: what to do with jihadis moving back into the general community? The government has cancelled Benbrika’s citizenship as a
