As reported yesterday on The BFD, the curious (if not exactly surprising) finding of the Coate inquiry into Victoria’s catastrophically failed hotel quarantine scheme is that no one is responsible. Not the Premier. Not his Ministers. Not his senior bureaucrats. Perhaps taking a leaf out of the Homer J
Failure truly is an orphan in “Dandrewstan”, otherwise known as the Australian state of Victoria. After months of hearings and millions of dollars, the Coate inquiry has finally identified just who was responsible for the farcical hotel quarantine regime that ultimately led to 800 deaths in that state – and a
Yet another follower of the Religion of Peace has gone on yet another murderous rampage in Australia, this time in Brisbane. Only the quick actions of police prevented more deaths. An accused ISIS supporter is suspected to have snapped and murdered an elderly couple in their Brisbane home, before being
Another day, another COVID “hot spot” – and another round of state governments and bureaucrats slamming their iron fists down on the Panic Button. Call me a cynic, but I’m beginning to suspect that the Little Hitlers in our state capitals and health bureaucracies just about wet themselves at every
Auntie’s slip is showing, yet again – and, yet again, it’s hanging too far to the left. In reaction to yet another report finding that Australia’s [taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network] public broadcaster is not exactly living up to its statutory requirement to be balanced and impartial, ABC chair
It’s shaping up as the biggest communist spy scandal since the Cambridge Five or the communist infiltrations of Hollywood and the US political bureaucracy in the 1930s and 1940s. When academic Clive Hamilton published Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia he was immediately attacked by China sympathisers in
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
