On the face of it, Josh Bornstein would seem to be an ideal fit for a Labor candidate: member of a progressive think tank, union lawyer, prolific and often vicious tweeter But Bornstein’s bid for a Labor Senate spot is foundering between the Charybdis of Labor factional politics and
This week two politicians, one on each side of both the Tasman and the political aisles, announced that they had been diagnosed with aggressive cancers. Both announced that they would be stepping back from their political duties while they sought treatment. But the very different reactions to each spoke volumes.
The 2020 Pacific Islands Forum might in retrospect be seen as an opening skirmish in China’s diplomatic and trade war against Australia. The forum hosted an unseemly display of “gibsmedat” Pacific tinpot panjandrums lining up to harangue Australia while Chinese “wolf warrior” diplomats cheerfully threw wads of cash into
Tim Anderson is a hard-left academic. Naturally, Anderson is fervently opposed to Israel. Equally naturally, Anderson found a long-time academic home at the far-left University of Sydney. USyd has an unenviable reputation for left-wing anti-Semitism. Another USyd academic was filmed at a “protest”, screaming abuse
In what must be a truly galling plot twist for the left, their most hated Goldstein is being held up as a model for the world. No, not the hard border, turn-back policy that Europe has been urged to follow (and which would serve the US equally well), but
Christian Porter’s defamation proceedings against the ABC have the potential to give the taxpayer-funded broadcaster the sort of clip over the ear it’s long deserved. ABC journalists have a deplorable habit of launching poisonous vilification campaigns against certain public figures – almost always conspicuously conservative. The biggest hurdle
Like it or not, Margaret Thatcher must surely rank as one of the most successful women in modern political history. With 11 years in office, Thatcher was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. But beyond that, she fundamentally reshaped politics in the Western world for decades.
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news I have to admit I’ve probably lost my balance on this whole “March 4 Justice” movement. The Good Sauce · March 4 Justice? Our whole culture is the problem, not just “consent education” Because it is being politically exploited by professional enemies of the Morrison government
While the Canberra bubble has spent the last few weeks whipping itself into a self-righteous feminist fury about a bunch of gay men jacking off at work and a dodgy, decades-old rape allegation, a group of Aboriginal women travelled to Parliament to campaign for justice for a raped
Once again, New Zealand is undermining its Five Eyes partners against China. It’s one step forward, two steps back in the trans-Tasman relationship, and a PM too busy reading her fan mail to bother with piddling stuff like pandemic investigations. The only international relations matters Jacinda Ardern appears
It’s been said that Tolkien’s ents are a gentle poke at the academic circles of Oxford and Cambridge with which he was so familiar: a cloistered bunch of fussy old bachelors endlessly ruminating. It might have been thought that that particular academic milieu was long past. But, reading
To the surprise of absolutely no one except the clueless clown-show that is the Canberra Bubble, the Parliamentary sex scandal that Labor and the left-media unleashed against the Morrison government is quickly turning on its handlers. As already reported on The BFD, another anonymous, historical rape allegation is
