For all her faults, Gladys Berejiklian is emerging from the pandemic dumpster fire as perhaps the only Australian politician with even half a commitment to freedom. While the rest of Australia’s premiers keep their fingers hovered over the lockdown buttons, like so many bureaucratic swords of Damocles, and PM
If some prognosticator had predicted, two years ago, that the world would be facing apparently unending global travel restrictions and government-enforced vaccines, we’d surely have laughed in their faces. More fool us. Because that’s exactly where we are, today – and there’s no end in sight. Not
Peter Dutton just looks like an ex-copper, although the exterior I’ve been told belies a thoughtful, even charming person. Politically, though, Dutton often lives up to his appearance: tough, no-nonsense, even a head-kicker when needs be. Certainly, those were the qualities Dutton brought to the Home
In words that Jacinda Ardern would surely approve, to really achieve global peace and justice, we must come together to fight discrimination wherever we find it. Especially gender discrimination. Wherever and in whatever form we find it. Thankfully, Queensland’s crime and corruption commission is coming down hard on a
It seems rather odd to claim to represent “oppressed people of colour” when you’re notably on the pale side. Not that that’s ever stopped the likes of Shaun “Talcum X” King, Linda Sarsour, or New Zealand’s own Golriz Ghahraman. I mean, at least Rachel Dolezal slapped on
On the influence of religion on politics, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott once said that, while one might be influenced by whatever value system they might hold, in the end public policy must be “publicly justifiable, not only justifiable in accordance with a private view, a private belief”. Abbott
I’m sure most of us could tell a similar story: in my high school years, it was common schoolyard knowledge that one of the teachers was “shagging” a student. The pair married almost immediately after she finished school in Year 11. Whether they’re still married, I have no
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: these are crazy times we’re living in, readers. It’s not just the nuttiness of Frankenfemmes pretending that men can have babies, or a goodly slice of the political class pretending that gibbering teenage dropouts are scientific experts,
The governing conceit of the left’s now-default ideology, identity politics, is that a person’s identity determines everything about them. Most especially what and how they should think. So, naturally, when one of the left’s favoured identity groups steps out of line, the denunciation is as punishing
Listen, New Zealand: I know we’re sibling rivals and all, but, jeez, you lot can be precious sometimes. You know, we let you win the rugby because it’s a sport hardly anyone in Australia actually cares about. (Instead of copying the Poms and buggering each other as a
As we have seen from the outset of the Wuhan plague, politicians and bureaucrats around the world have uniformly implemented the worst possible policies and completely refused to learn from their failures. In lockstep, their camp-followers on the left have dutifully cheered on official stupidity and viciously attacked dissenters.
The Australian Labor Party’s union base has long been its greatest strength – and, often, its greatest handicap. In 1963, a photo emerged of the then Labor leader Arthur Calwell, and his deputy, Gough Whitlam, standing in the dark outside the Kingston Hotel in Canberra, waiting to be told by
We at The BFD have been reporting it for over a year, now – and finally, the mainstream media are beginning, ever so slowly, to catch on. What I’m talking about is the now-undeniable evidence that lockdowns do not work. New Zealand’s ‘COVID Queen’ might like to boast
Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here”. Daniel Andrews, on the other hand, is obviously determined that the buck will stop anywhere and everywhere but his own desk. The roster of heads that have rolled over Victoria’s hotel quarantine disaster is beginning
As New Zealand slowly wakes up to the fact that its government is attempting to impose racial separatism by stealth, it may be cold comfort to Kiwis to know that it’s being done more or less openly in Australia. In New Zealand, the separatist agenda has been exposed – for
Viv Forbes The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to get special recognition today. No human race evolved in Australia – several races
