For years, ordinary Australians have watched in helpless disbelief as growing swathes of the Australian economy have been gobbled up by China. As they will, the political class have carried on with blind indifference. Even the mind-boggling stupidity of leasing the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company for 99
The Chinese communist regime inflicted the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with its disastrous culture of secrecy and lies. Then, to add insult to injury, it starting pillaging the world’s medical supplies. The plunder first came to light in Australia when a whistleblower from a Chinese-owned property developer alerted
O’Sullivan’s Law states that “any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right-wing will become left-wing over time”. This is in part because leftists tend to only tolerate other leftists. Multiple surveys have shown that conservatives are twice as likely as ‘liberals’ to tolerate different opinions. So once
As recently reported in The BFD, “daigou” (meaning, “buy on behalf of”) has become a massive business for Chinese expats in Australia. In many ways, daigou is a smart bit of entrepreneurship: buying in-demand Australian-made items and mailing it to the folks back home. Unfortunately, there’s a blurred line
It’s rather obvious what this show is going to be about. We’re only broadcasting on The Unshackled channel tonight as Tim doesn’t have everything set up at home yet. Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms will be talking about the week’s news in New Zealand and
Australia often leads the world in leftist derangement. Before Trump Derangement Syndrome, our left-media elite were regularly working themselves into spittle-flecked insanity with Abbott Derangement Syndrome. But the curse that just keeps on giving for the left-elite is Hanson Derangement Syndrome. When Pauline Hanson first exploded onto the political scene,
In the late 70s and early 80s, race hustlers in the United States discovered a new – and lucrative – tactic: lawfare. It was so simple: just level an accusation of racism at a corporate target and watch them rush to settle. After all, with ambulance-chasing lawyers willing to work pro bono
John Daley Chief Executive Officer Grattan Institute This is longer than the usual Conversation article, so allow some time to take it in. Nobody likes talking about the COVID-19 endgame, but we need to choose one. The appropriate interventions – public health, government spending, and freedom of movement – all depend on
Frank Zappa’s observation that “Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff” might seem like a flippant remark, but it reflected a brutal truth. Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms in the 1980s tacitly acknowledged this truth: not even the Maoist regime could stop basic human entrepreneurship. Black
Welcome to this week’s show with Dieuwe de Boer representing New Zealand and Tim Wilms representing Australia. It’s going to be another Chinese Virus themed episode, but we’ll try to focus on other important news as much as possible.
The panic-buying in Australian supermarkets is reaching truly idiotic proportions. First it was dunny paper, then rice and flour. Then meat shelves were stripped. Then they started clearing Bunnings of seedlings, as if they somehow think they’ll magically grow dirt-food in the next few weeks. Now, these human plague
Panic buyers are dickheads. Scalpers who try and flog off their massive stockpiles of bog roll and hand sanitiser are even worse. But the million-dollar-a-year elites, our university vice-chancellors, make them all look like paragons of community-spirited virtue. As news of an outbreak of a new viral epidemic in Wuhan
It’s said that crises bring out the best and worst in people. In the case of the legacy media, it’s brought out almost nothing but the worst. A social media meme sums it up best: What’s worse is that the so-called ‘quality’, taxpayer-funded media are the worst
As I’ve written before, the Morrison government’s plans for a royal commission into Australia’s bushfire disaster this summer is fraught with potential problems. Not least is that unscrupulous climate activists will turn it into a bully pulpit for their hysterics. Another potential roadblock is that those with
Here are two iron-clad rules you should always keep handy in your Bullshit Detection Kit: 1. If a headline claims “Study shows…” or “Science says…” assume that it doesn’t, until proven otherwise. 2. Whatever a “Fact-Checker” says, assume that they’re wrong or lying, until proven otherwise. The first
