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
Poor old Albo. Labor leader Anthony Albanese seems like a decent enough bloke, it’s just his politics that are lousy – and he’s trying to lead a party that doesn’t know if it’s beer-drinking Arthur or latte-sipping Martha. Except that Labor’s traditional base have already worked
China’s punishing trade war against Australia, in open retaliation for the Morrison government’s backing of an independent international investigation into the origins of the Wuhan virus, is but one face of the reality of dealing with a bullying communist dictatorship. Just as China openly told New Zealand to
The great risk of asymmetrical warfare is that the seemingly more powerful side – usually a nation-state and its regular armed forces – are actually at a severe disadvantage. This is especially true of liberal democracies, whose armed forces are held rigidly to the rules of war, but intensely scrutinised – not least
Labor MP Anne Aly touts herself as a “counter-terrorism academic” and “de-radicalisation expert”. Leaving aside that her academic qualifications are in literature and media, it might better be asked: show us the jihadis she’s “de-radicalised”. Perhaps Junaid Thorne, for whom she provided a letter of support when he was
Johannes Leak’s cartoon summed it all: as PM Scott Morrison declares, “I will never compromise Australian values by caving in to China’s bullying”, opposition leader Anthony Albanese jumps in, waving a Chinese flag: “I will!” For too long, the Labor party, like too many in high places in
Freedom for Faith mercatornet.com The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 will have a terrible chilling effect on the provision of counselling and support for vulnerable people wrestling with their sexuality In the most aggressive action ever taken by an Australian government to attack freedom of religion,
Chongyi Feng University of Technology Sydney As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated case. Zhao and other Chinese officials
New Zealand can consider itself warned – and put in its place. When Jacinda Ardern issued a rebuke – however mild – to the Chinese regime over its use of a faked Twitter image to smear Australia, it was a welcome change in direction from a leader who has been more besotted by
The phrase “useful idiots” may be of uncertain provenance but its applicability is rarely in doubt. Oxford defines the term as referring to someone “naive and susceptible to manipulation for propaganda or…similarly manipulable for political purposes”, especially by totalitarian regimes. Not for nothing was it first applied to the
