This year’s G7 summit should be of special interest to New Zealanders, not because of who was there and what was discussed — but who and what wasn’t. The G7 itself includes, of course, Britain, the US, Canada and Japan. This year Australia was invited for the second time
The issue of Islam and domestic violence briefly stirred the cobwebs in the heads of Australia’s chattering classes a few years back. First, a Muslim cleric lectured that it was OK for Muslim men to beat their wives into submission, if they refused sex, for instance. Then a pair
Yesterday, The BFD reported that senior Labor senator Penny Wong had condemned the Queensland branch of the party for parroting “talking points disseminated by Hamas”. Now, Labor elder statesman Bob Carr is furiously denying the obvious: anti-Semitism is a spreading stain on the Labor party. Former foreign minister Bob
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Credit where it’s due to Penny Wong, for being one of the few senior Labor figures to stand up to the left’s almost-complete surrender to anti-Semitism. Wong can be just as grubbily opportunist as any politician: she opposed gay marriage right up to the point that
If there’s one thing Daniel Andrews’s government is good at, it’s avoiding responsibility for its catastrophic stuff-ups. Victoria’s second wave of the Wuhan plague made it the far and away worst performer in all of Australia. Victoria recorded twice the infections and nine times the
The Wuhan pandemic has given birth to some grim side-effects: Mask Karens, Vaxholes, the Sanctimonious TikTok Nurse… But the grimmest is surely the Bureaucratic COVID Dictator. You know the ones I mean: standing at their little podiums day after day during lockdowns, wearing a lab coat with the price
Chris Trotter has got Scott Morrison dancing with the Evangelicals. Would he rather he danced with the devil? Trotter thinks the Book of Revelation has got a lot to do with the Coalition’s foreign policy in standing up to China over various issues like the origin of Covid and
Are Australians ready to go to jail for expressing opinions which displease the government? Popular, even if maybe wrong opinions? Because that’s exactly what the bonkers bureaucrats at Australia’s drug regulator are hinting at. Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is considering referring Facebook posts
The COVID-19 vaccines are, like, the safest things in the history of medicine ever. If you harbour even the slightest doubt, even if you get all your other shots religiously, then you’re a wicked, horrible, granny-killing, baby-eating, kitten-trampling ANTI-VAXXER and you deserve to spend
Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is former member of NZ First and worked as a parliamentary researcher to Winton Peters from 2011 to 2013. He has a Masters in Politics from the University of Auckland. His thesis examined class voting
It’s like the plot of one of those cheesy disaster or horror movies. You know, where the shonky mayor or property developer builds a skyscraper on top of an active volcano, or a housing development on an old Indian burial ground. Of course, we’re talking about Victoria, where
Today’s face of the day Jacinda Ardern has rocks in her head. How else can you explain her dogged determination to import low lifes into New Zealand? These are not real refugees they are country shoppers. They are the leftover dregs as the rest were offered and accepted homes
It’s basic civics that, of the three branches of democratic governance, it’s the legislative which makes the laws and the judicial which makes judgments about those laws. Too many judges seem to have skipped Civics class. Activist judges, as they are known, seem to labour under the delusion
Whatever you may think of Israel Folau, the man’s a fighter. When Folau was hit with the leftist fatwa of being cancelled by the Twitter mob and their journalistic hangers-on, he didn’t back down. Instead, Folau stuck to his guns. When Rugby Australia sacked him for the
