Many moons ago, I pondered what would happen if a conservative political candidate or politician was photographed in front of a swastika flag while wearing a Hitler t-shirt. I was referring to Labor candidate John Falzon, who celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution by posing for a selfie
When I wrote, some time back, that “doctors are notorious for their God-complex: the arrogant delusion that they are superior beings whose word is writ”, it inspired some upset responses from medicos. But, as we’re seeing during the Wuhan pandemic, give some petty medical bureaucrats a lab coat and
When I wrote yesterday’s Insight article, comparing Victoria under Wuhan pandemic lockdown to past tyrannies like communism, even I worried that I was being overly hyperbolic. Lo and behold, the very next day, a refugee from Poland’s communist regime makes the same comparison. The restrictions in Victoria on
When the Morrison government agreed to conduct a royal commission into the banking sector, Australia’s academics weren’t backwards in coming forward with their pious opinions about the wicked capitalists. But academics shouldn’t be so quick to throw stones – not when their ivory towers are looking more and
If only Victoria’s problems stopped at the south bank of the Murray River, perhaps the rest of the nation could afford to turn a blind eye to the circus in the south. But, like it or not, what happens in Victoria affects the rest of the nation. In particular,
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As I’ve said before, Daniel Andrews really does seem to be determined to steal Tommy Bent’s crown as Victoria’s most corrupt premier. Victorian voters have, to date, not just tolerated Andrews’ nefarious activities, but rewarded them. Despite scandals from the Red Shirts to decimating the much-loved Country
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As reported in The BFD, a Victorian farmer recently faced the Kafka-esque predicament of having to drive 40 sheep three hours to Melbourne, then flying them to Sydney, then driving for another six hours, just to take them a few kilometres over the border to the saleyards at Corowa, on
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms return in a new episode of TTT as all manner of crazy things happen in the locked-down cities of Auckland and Melbourne. We’ll talk about the news from the past week and then answer your questions. Subscribe and ring the bell to be
You’ve got to hand it to Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, he’s really putting his state on the global map – for the wrong reasons. I’ve reported for months that Victoria’s state bureaucracy, especially its police, have gotten rolling drunk on the unelected power they’ve seized using
Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalise state-sanctioned suicide – or, to use the preferred bland euphemism, “Voluntary Assisted Dying” – last year. It’s also taking its first steps on the slippery slope that death-fanciers insist doesn’t exist. More than 300 people have applied to end their lives
West Australia’s McGowan Labor government may be patting themselves on the back for apparently heading off Big, Bad Clive Palmer at the legislative pass on one front, but they can’t legislate away the Constitution. Palmer may have lost his bid for compensation over his Balmoral South iron ore
The reaction of governments on both sides of the Tasman to the Wuhan pandemic has been near-hysterical overreaction coupled with the most bizarre wishful thinking. Panic – and an innate taste for untrammelled power – drove the unacknowledged shift of the pandemic goalposts from “flatten the curve” to “elimination”. Bear in mind
Australia’s state governments haven’t exactly been covering themselves in glory over the last six months. There was the NSW government’s incompetent handling of the Ruby Princess cruise ship, which unleashed a wave of infections across Australia. Victoria has been a masterclass in failure, from its execrable hounding
