Whereas New Zealand’s prime minister and foreign minister rushed to join the clucking claque of pearl-clutching cretins cheering on the un-personing of US President Donald Trump, at least a few in Australia’s government have scrabbled hard and found the withered remains of what once passed as “principles”. The
You can always tell when it’s January in Australia: the Christmas-New Year limbo starts to dissipate, the summer heat starts to ramp up, the first bushfires start to set the climate alarmists off…and the annual Festival of Leftist Pissing and Moaning kicks off. The highlight act of this
“What’s he building in there? We have a right to know!” – Tom Waits Way back in the halcyon days of 2017, nobody thought to blink an eye or ask any questions when the Chinese communists decided to plonk a massive consulate building right in the middle of Adelaide. SA
The social engineers on the left have barely been able to contain their excitement at the limitless opportunities offered them by the Wuhan plague. Absolute state control over which businesses are and are not allowed to run. Dictatorial control over whether citizens are even allowed out of their homes. Daily
What’s a billion or so between amicis, eh? As previously reported by The BFD, startling revelations late last year showed that millions of dollars were secretly transferred to a company in Melbourne. The money was alleged to have been used to help secure the false conviction of Cardinal George
The most notable thing about the Wuhan plague is that nearly every one of the devastating outbreaks which have fuelled so much unwonted hysteria can be traced back to official incompetence. From the initial outbreak in Wuhan to the disaster in New York, the essential uselessness of politicians, bureaucrats and
In international relations terms, Australia is strictly what would be called a “middle power”. We’re not among the elite movers and shakers of world events, but we are far from irrelevant. In recent months, Australia has upped its ante from being a middle power to being what is called
A curious thing happened last week: China’s “wolf warriors” suddenly began to sit up and beg. “We hope that the relationship can come back to the right track as early as possible, and we would welcome efforts by all who want the relations to improve to make some efforts,
Margaret Thatcher famously said that the problem with socialism was that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. As much of the Western world descends into a medically-induced quasi-socialism (what else would you call a regime where the state rules which businesses may trade, and how,
As I wrote yesterday, Australian PM Scott Morrison is a bigger fool than he looks, if he thinks the grievance-left are going to be satisfied with changing just one word of the national anthem. As I warned, activists always have a laundry list of complaints and pansy-conservatives always delude themselves
The Wuhan plague has brought out the inner snitch in too many people. Jacinda Ardern’s COVID snitch hotline melted down with curtain-twitchers all-too-eager to rat out their neighbours for the heinous sin of leaving the house. In Australia, the long arm of the law was ever-ready to swoop on
If one thing has been blindingly obvious during the Wuhan pandemic, it’s that those making the policy decisions feel no obligation to abide by their own rules. Whether it’s David Clark breaking lockdown to go to the beach, or New York mayor Bill de Blasio enjoying a New
Scott Morrison seems determined to piss away every one of the advantages that won the Coalition an unexpected, thumping victory in 2019. The latest is his surprise unilateral decision to tinker with the national anthem, Advance Australia Fair. Australians will declare themselves “one and free” from January 1 under a
As has been obvious since at least Tocqueville the most astute observations about the national character are often made from the outside. However much it hurts. But Australians are notoriously prickly to even constructive criticism from non-Australians (excepting New Zealanders: as our siblings, you’re allowed to pick on us
Although the hapless Neville Chamberlain has borne the historical burden of the disastrous appeasement policy prior to WWII, the reality is that it was an enormously popular policy on nearly all sides. Cheering crowds greeted Chamberlain’s “piece of paper”. Even after the war began, many left-wing groups in particular
