Economist Thomas Sowell warns, in Basic Economics, that no matter how well-intentioned, government interventions in the housing market almost invariably result in a short supply and increasing cost. New Zealanders who’ve watched the Ardern government’s spectacularly failed Kiwibuild policy have grim experience of this economic rule. But it’
Despite the endless temper-tantrums of the left, we in Australia are lucky that we have at least some counterweight to relentless group-think in the mainstream media. Unlike the endless, mindless fawning of most, left-leaning, news media, papers like The Australian retain enough of their critical faculties to see easily through
The wheels are fast falling off Dan Andrews’s clown-car dictatorship. Another high-ranking head has rolled, bringing the axe one step closer to the premier’s own neck; the public tide is inexorably turning against lockdowns and even Andrews himself is tacitly admitting that his extraordinary lockdowns have been a
Finally, one person at least in the Victorian government has remembered something. A strange, COVID-induced amnesia had otherwise spread through Victoria’s government and bureaucracy as they were called to front the Coates Inquiry into the botched hotel quarantine program which unleashed a wave of infections and deaths. The inquiry
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The increasingly shrill defenders of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews are often particularly outraged by references to “Dictator Dan”. If you can criticise the premier on Facebook, they shriek, you’re not in a dictatorship! Except that, as we see, Victorians criticise the premier on Facebook at their peril. Zoe Bruhler,
What can you honestly say about a community so steeped in violence and abuse that its teachers need security fences to safeguard their lives? These are the same communities where STDs in children are endemic, domestic violence rampant – and where five year-old boys are gang-raped by other children. But it’
Will Victorians soon be boasting that Dan Andrews made the trains run on time? They’re a weird bunch, my old home-staters. For decades, Victoria was solidly conservative, with the Bolte and Hamer Liberal governments leading the state for a solid quarter-century. But, from the 80s on, Victoria has leaned
The Wuhan Plague has at least a couple of silver linings. Firstly, it’s given the rude shock that much of the world needed to wake up to the fact that at the end of the day, they’ve been dealing with a communist dictatorship. Consequently, many nations are seeking
Governments throwing around money is always going to be politically popular. But, as Margaret Thatcher famously noted, sooner or later governments run out of other peoples’ money. When the Rudd government announced its first stimulus measure in the face of the GFC – a $900 cash payment to all Australians – the
As I wrote this week, the great economic danger facing Australia as it struggles – hopefully – out of COVID panic is an explosion in government debt. Debt is not of course an evil in itself, as any business which has ever taken out a loan to finance growth knows. But, as
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Forget the media lies about President Donald Trump telling Americans to inject bleach and other such Trump-deranged fake news. The biggest delusions, exaggerations and outright bullshit about the Wuhan Plague have been peddled by the so-called “experts”: scientists, public health bureaucrats and supposedly sober and responsible politicians. Even the Morrison
Jacinda Ardern dangled the prospect of an Australia-NZ travel bubble “before Christmas” as an apparent pre-election carrot. But two Australian states have gazumped her by already offering quarantine-free travel however Ardern seems rather less-than-eager to reciprocate. As a result – and no doubt also due to higher fares than previously – New
The saga of the Cardinal George Pell trial had a startling new twist yesterday. It has long been argued that powerful forces conspired to bring down Pell – Victoria Police admitted to establishing a “Get Pell” squad specifically to fish for allegations before any had been made – but the new revelations
I’ve warned The BFD’s readers several times that Jacinda Ardern and Victorian premier Dan Andrews have some disturbing things in common. Both are dime-store socialists who’ve raced to outdo each other in the severity of their COVID lockdowns. Neither has any knowledge or experience in the private
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