The show is starting 1 hour later than usual. Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. With two months until the election, the NZ National Party has selected Judith “Crusher” Collins as leader, making the race competitive again. Parts of Australia
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is clearly besotted with the Chinese communist party. Not only does he happily trouser their filthy lucre, he’s copied their response to the Wuhan virus slavishly. Lies, cover-ups, evasions, political cronyism, police-state authoritarianism, locking people up in their apartment blocks. So far, no journalists or
As I so often tell BFD readers, Australian politics often seem to serve as a warning to New Zealand. We had Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard; ten years down the track, you get Jacinda Ardern. Our “conservative” Coalition turns teal-blue and tears itself apart with infighting, you lot get National.
Daniel Andrews is just under a decade older than Jacinda Ardern, but the two have much else in common. Both are Arts-degree socialists from religious families who’ve never in their adult lives held a job outside politics. More recently, both oversaw draconian responses to the Wuhan pandemic – and both
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. Melbourne is in lockdown again, while New Zealand has escapees from its quarantine hotels. It feels like we’ve seen it all before. The NZ National Party has seen a number of resignations and
“There is no racist like an antiracist,” Theodore Dalrymple once wrote. While that may seem counter-intuitive, Dalrymple explains its logic: “That is because he is obsessed by race…He looks at the world through race-tinted spectacles”. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr famously said that one should be judged by the
The Andrews government has gone the full Wuhan in its response to the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in that state – and once more demonstrated that the most authoritarian states are almost always the worst-performing. From the beginning, Andrews has slavishly followed Beijing’s lead: cover-up, clamp down and stuff
Pauline Hanson regularly earns the ire of the media-political elite for having the bad grace to say out loud what the average Australian is saying privately. Now, she’s being punished for something even more gauche: daring to put in blunt terms what the left-elite prefer to whisper and nudge.
John Blaxland Australian National University Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a new 2020 Defence Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan that marks a considerable departure from the past. The update boosts defence spending from A$195-$270 billion over the next decade, with a commitment to see it through,
When you talk to leftists, it often seems as if they’re living in a completely different reality. Because they are. As studies have shown, left-leaning people are overwhelmingly less likely to seek out news sources which challenge their biases (CNN’s Jake Tapper has more right-leaning Twitter followers than
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. Coronavirus cases are exploding in the state of Victoria, what’s going on there? The election draws closer in NZ with a number of high-profile resignations. All that and more on this week’s
Something that’s been a glaring constant in the Wuhan pandemic is that the worst outbreaks can all be sheeted home to official incompetence. Whether it’s the Chinese Communists’ original lies and cover-ups, Bill de Blasio’s disastrous order to house COVID patients in aged-care homes, Australia’s Ruby
“A national security law was imposed on Hong Kong through a process nobody in Hong Kong had any control over, with content nobody in Hong Kong was privy to. That should put an end to the notion that Hong Kong remains autonomous in any meaningful way” – Alvin Cheung. Ever since
In what could be an ominous portent for Jacinda Ardern, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is copping a shellacking for his bungled handling of COVID-19. Australia’s wokest state has previously stood firmly behind its Dear Leader, even in the face of mounting political scandals – but COVID-19 may be the game-changer.
As psychologist Hal Herzog writes, in his Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, humans are practically incapable of thinking consistently rationally about animals. Animal activists are well aware of this basic irrationality and exploit it to the hilt. The campaigns of animal activists are invariably long on
