Never believe the opinion polls, particularly in a febrile environment like New Zealand is experiencing at the moment. Remember the leadup to the 2017 election when Labour was on the nose, Andrew Little was its leader and the party was polling in the twenties? A change of leader at the
Don Brown, the Labor Member of State Parliament for Capalaba in South East Queensland, has launched a scathing attack on a local community group, “The Cage” in response to an article about funding promised by the Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington. “The hits keep on coming. No money for state roads
Once again, a gutless corporation has caved to a professional whinger, and one of Australia’s most iconic brand names has been cancelled. Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan says “common sense has prevailed” with the decision of Canadian conglomerate Saputo to dump the “Coon” cheese brand after he complained to company
So what’s going on at Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outlet lately? What exactly are we Aussie taxpayers getting for our billion-plus dollars a year? Aside from the usual cavalcade of wokeness – they’ve only stopped prattling about climate change for as long as it’s taken them to
Three more MPs have resigned from New Zealand’s parliament this week, two of which involve sex scandals. Melbourne’s latest corona outbreak has seen the introduction of mandatory face veils. All that and more on this week’s show, as Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms recap the week’
As a Tasmanian, I have to admit that it gives me at least a tiny thrill of schadenfreude to watch another state cop a shellacking for once. Victoria is the sick man of Australia. A leper with a “Kick Me” sign pinned to its back. But the shameful pleasure of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently there was a Federal by-election in Australia in the Labour-held marginal seat of Eden-Monaro. In a tight race Labour scraped back, thanks to the Greens preferential votes going their way. But note this. The Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt remarked afterwards, “the result sent
The show is starting 1 hour later than usual. Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. With two months until the election, the NZ National Party has selected Judith “Crusher” Collins as leader, making the race competitive again. Parts of Australia
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is clearly besotted with the Chinese communist party. Not only does he happily trouser their filthy lucre, he’s copied their response to the Wuhan virus slavishly. Lies, cover-ups, evasions, political cronyism, police-state authoritarianism, locking people up in their apartment blocks. So far, no journalists or
As I so often tell BFD readers, Australian politics often seem to serve as a warning to New Zealand. We had Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard; ten years down the track, you get Jacinda Ardern. Our “conservative” Coalition turns teal-blue and tears itself apart with infighting, you lot get National.
Daniel Andrews is just under a decade older than Jacinda Ardern, but the two have much else in common. Both are Arts-degree socialists from religious families who’ve never in their adult lives held a job outside politics. More recently, both oversaw draconian responses to the Wuhan pandemic – and both
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. Melbourne is in lockdown again, while New Zealand has escapees from its quarantine hotels. It feels like we’ve seen it all before. The NZ National Party has seen a number of resignations and
“There is no racist like an antiracist,” Theodore Dalrymple once wrote. While that may seem counter-intuitive, Dalrymple explains its logic: “That is because he is obsessed by race…He looks at the world through race-tinted spectacles”. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr famously said that one should be judged by the
The Andrews government has gone the full Wuhan in its response to the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in that state – and once more demonstrated that the most authoritarian states are almost always the worst-performing. From the beginning, Andrews has slavishly followed Beijing’s lead: cover-up, clamp down and stuff
Pauline Hanson regularly earns the ire of the media-political elite for having the bad grace to say out loud what the average Australian is saying privately. Now, she’s being punished for something even more gauche: daring to put in blunt terms what the left-elite prefer to whisper and nudge.
