Australia and New Zealand, along with much of the Western world, have been plunged almost overnight into a state of seemingly endless lockdown. In scenes not witnessed even in the depths of wartime, Aussies and Kiwis are practically confined to their homes – with police and even the army patrolling the
Responding to a groundswell of public anger the Queensland government hurriedly shelved its planned pay rise for its swollen army of public servants. After all, a guaranteed annual pay rise well above the inflation rate, plus a generous cash bonus, was just too much for ordinary taxpayers struggling through the
Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today. Celebrities relaxing in their hot tubs in their multi-million-dollar mansions. Publicly-funded journalists at the national broadcaster. Politicians with eye-watering allowances. For us
Celebrities relaxing in their hot tubs in their multi-million-dollar mansions. Publicly-funded journalists at the national broadcaster. Politicians with eye-watering allowances. For us ordinary working stiffs slogging through the Xi Plague and its associated disruptions, being hectored to “stay home” by people with guaranteed jobs, income and luxurious digs is more
Update The Queensland premier has announced that the pay rise is “on hold”, as public anger mounts. Note that: “on hold”. As soon as she thinks it’s politically safe to do so, they’ll get their fat pay rise – almost certainly backdated. During the Blitz, the Queen Mother famously
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms continue live on The Unshackled channel only during the lockdown. Tune in for a recap and discussion of the week’s news in New Zealand and Australia.
As BFD readers will be aware, while butchers in New Zealand have been forced to shut, some NZ Muslims have complained that halal butchers should be exempt. The complaints have had a sympathetic ear from the Ardern government – notwithstanding at least one Muslim doctor advising his co-religionists to stop complaining
Australian political firebrand Pauline Hanson hasn’t been holding back – as usual – about the Chinese communist regime’s complicity in the global COVID-19 pandemic and what Australia should do in response. Now, another maverick conservative, Nationals MP George Christensen, is going even harder. China should be made to pay reparations
The “climate crisis” crowd have been notably silent, ever since the Xi Plague broke out. It’s a bit hard, after all, to stage attention-seeking tanties like glueing yourself to the road when the country is in lockdown. Apparently it took a real crisis to silence the incessant yammering of
An NZ Herald cartoonist, a nasty, spiteful, leftist, oik at the best of times, recently published a disrespectful cartoon depicting his version of Simpson and his donkey. He even tweeted some commentary: If only it were true that Jacinda Ardern had finally cracked the Aussie nut. The truth is actually
We already knew that Chinese-owned companies were quietly mobilising their workers to scarf up Australian medical supplies to ship off to China through January and February. Right when the Xi Plague was peaking there – and Beijing was lying to the rest of the world that anything much was really happening.
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” is a favourite quote of the character Salvor Hardin, in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. Hardin is an agile politician who runs rings around bigger foes without resorting to blunt force. In the battle against COVID-19, lockdowns are the blunt force approach – and
China should be made to pay reparations for the outbreak of the coronavirus, but given they are unlikely to do so “maybe (Australia) can take back the land that their foreign owned corporations have as damages” says Nationals MP George Christensen. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has set the dollar value which
One of the major reasons the political and media establishment in Australia hate Pauline Hanson so much is that she has a habit of saying what the rest of Australia is thinking. And the rest of Australia frequently thinks things that establishment cannot and will not tolerate. When Hanson wore
Well, you’ve got to give Jacinda Ardern credit for her chutzpah, if nothing else. Just a month after she publicly berated Australian PM Scott Morrison, she is holding out the begging bowl. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has asked Scott Morrison to temporarily lift the ban on
