Viv Forbes Washpool, Queensland, Australia Viv Forbes has qualifications in applied science and financial analysis and experience in industry and government. He earns no income from coal, oil or gas but does have solar panels on his shed. While the West wages war on coal, hydro-carbons power China’s
The history of animal activism is littered with idiotic stunts by people who clearly don’t actually know that much about the animals they profess to love – stunts which more often than not backfire spectacularly. Last year, vegan nutcases stole a goat from a Victorian farm; in short order, the
It’s a tough enough battle defending free speech against the censorious left. It’s even worse when gutless so-called “conservatives” take their side. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” indeed. Politicians such as the Australian Prime Minister have constantly demanded more
Australian students are ignorant but woke: just the way the Long March left intended. That’s the depressing conclusion to be gleaned from the latest assessment of Australian secondary students’ knowledge of civics – the basic skill set of a liberal democracy. Most secondary students lack the basic knowledge and skills
These unelected Little Hitlers are drunk on power. As I reported recently, Western Australia has become an elected dictatorship, but much of the rest of Australia has given up even the pretence of elected representation. Instead, elected governments have handed decision-making over to unelected bureaucrats; and, having got their
As Victoria edges ever closer to the abyss of a new round of COVID infections, the Victorian authorities are once again struggling to differentiate their arses from their elbows. As reported earlier by The BFD, just a handful of new cases saw the government’s contact tracing regime fall to
Last year, New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade took the extraordinary step of briefing the Minister of Foreign Affairs about hate and incitement to violence being taught in United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) schools partly funded by New Zealand. MFAT waved away
“I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn’t know you would sell out your country and your soul… to the slime of humanity” Prof. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There’s been plenty of back-and-forth over
As The BFD reported recently, the Victorian government is teetering on the edge of making exactly the same mistakes which resulted in the Wuhan plague outbreak last year. The outbreak which resulted in the government imposing the first military curfew in Melbourne’s history, and plainclothes goons handcuffing a pregnant
The road to Hell, as the saying goes, is paved with good intentions. And it’s paid for and laid out and maintained by ‘kind’ and ‘well-meaning’ busybodies who think it’s their state-given right to pry and interfere and impose their own, bigoted version of morality on
It’s not hard to notice that the “progressive” left has a rather problematic relationship with religion. Not to put to fine a point on it, they hate religion. It’s all “sky fairy” myths and child abuse and holding humanity back from reaching the great, communist, Star Trek sci-
As I recently wrote, Australia has, like it or not, become the pivotal power in facing down China. China’s diplomatic and trade bullying of Australia, and the Morrison government’s firm resolve not to cave, has made us the focus of global efforts to check the increasing efforts of
There’s not too many silver linings to be found in a global pandemic, even one as ridiculously over-hyped by doom-mongering “experts” as the Wuhan flu. But, just as even the Black Death had the surviving side-effect of providing a boost to the rights and wages of
If you don’t pay any attention to the news, you’re uninformed. If you only pay attention to the mainstream media, you’re misinformed. And if you’re letting Big Tech decide for you what news you can and can’t see…you’re willfully misinformed. So forgive me
I’ve already written at some length about how the Australian state of Victoria descended into a medically-induced tyranny. Using the ridiculously-over-hyped excuse of what, on all available evidence, is very, very far from the deadliest pandemic in modern history, Victorians meekly, even gratefully, submitted to an
Many years ago, there was a fellow in Australia widely dubbed “the serial pest”. Peter Hore grabbed headlines with a series of stunts that had no clear agenda aside from grabbing headlines. Hore’s successful headline grabs included everything from running onto the field of the Melbourne Cup to gatecrashing
