Renae Barker The University of Western Australia Renae Barker is a lecturer in law at the University of Western Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Muslim States and Societies. She completed her PhD at UWA in 2014. The New South Wales government has put a temporary
You might wonder why two parents who aren’t working would even need childcare. After all, wasn’t the whole point of childcare to free up mothers to return to work? Ah, you see: that’s why you’re not an expert. You’re just not clever enough to understand
It’s like watching the start of just about every zombie apocalypse movie: a montage of ever-more-urgent news reports, graphics of growing numbers of infected, footage of lines of cars fleeing the city. Except that the zombies in this case are very real: they’re the politicians and
As I wrote recently for Insight, we are almost uniformly represented by fools with zero real-world experience. These credentialled ignoramuses go direct from university to politics, skillfully avoiding ever working in a ‘real’ job. It’s a problem that afflicts all sides of politics but is especially acute for
Lawyer and academic Noel Pearson has laid down the law to education bureaucrats: drop the “progressiveness” and go back to what we know works. I disagree with Noel Pearson about many things, “Indigenous Voice” especially, but his challenge to education bureaucrats is right on the money. Noel Pearson has issued
You’ve got to admire Andrew Bolt’s cojones, if nothing else. After all, when Bolt was coward-punched by two Antifa soy-boys in the street, he wasted no time spinning around and dropping one of the would-be attackers like a sack of potatoes. In 2011, Bolt was
As I wrote yesterday, it’s looking more and more like a case of Back to the COVID Future in Victoria. Hotel quarantine stuff-ups, restrictions, masks and a government that can’t sort its arse from its elbow: we’ve read this script before. The moral of the story
Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster appears to be increasingly out of control. Editorial independence is one thing: sloppy, wildly biased journalism and an utter refusal to concede or retract errors is another. One only need listen to the ABC’s coverage of Israeli issues to see its bias: reports on
Once is an accident, twice a coincidence: but if Victoria gets hit with yet another wave of the Wuhan virus, then that’s just sheer, staggering incompetence. Victoria is far and away Australia’s worst-performing state in the COVID pandemic: more than twice the number of infections and a
Some years ago, the British comic Viz ran a story: “Poor people ruining the planet for celebrities”. The story focused on how celebrities couldn’t fly their private jets or gaze from the windows of their country estates without seeing disgusting ordinary people in the far distance. Once again, reality
Viv Forbes A passport was once highly valued by travellers, but not compulsory. Signed by the sovereign, it said: “The bearer of this passport has my protection. He is free to travel anywhere. Do not pester him (or her).” Gradually passports became compulsory bureaucratic tools to control and track international
A recent BFD “Daily Roundup” post contrasted the laundry list of Maori-only benefits in New Zealand with the supposed “white privilege” of non-Maori. Like most jokes, it contained a not-so-subtle barb of truth. As Orwell wrote, “A thing is funny when…it upsets the established order.
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then
Masks have become the yellow stars, the keffiyehs and the awareness ribbons, all rolled into one, of the Wuhan plague. Despite the spurious appeals to “science” (the evidence has been and remains at best equivocal, most reliably negative), the real reason for mask mandates has at last been laid bare:
What is it about the climate-obsessed green-left that drives them to maniacally advocate the worst possible “solutions” for the least imaginable problems. Despite the reflexive screeching of “denier!”, very few people actually deny that climate change exists. The alarmist mantra, “climate change is real”, is an empty straw-
The more the “progressive” left scream and bluster that there’s no slippery slope, the faster they shove us all down its greased rails. It took less than two years to go from a state-run mail-in opinion survey on gay marriage to radical transgender laws in Tasmania (the
