“Green steel” might sound like Derek Zoolander’s contribution to celebrity climate activism, but according to a public policy think-tank, it’s totes the future of the Australian economy. But, like most green fantasies, it seems to be long on wishful thinking and short on hard detail. A new report
The Australian luvvies are besides themselves with delight at the announcement that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has invited his New Zealand counterpart to sit in on cabinet’s COVID-19 discussions. Those of us, however, who have hitherto enjoyed mostly being spared the sight of her smirking, condescending vacuousness are less
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. The Lockdown Depression is rushing towards us. Many in politics, media and industry are digging the hole deeper, some through panic and ignorance, others cynically pushing anti-industry
The University of Queensland is doubling down on its legal threats against student activist Drew Pavlou. Already facing expulsion for leading anti-Beijing protests on campus, Pavlou is now being threatened with criminal prosecution by the University’s lawyers. In an interview for The BFD, Drew says that he has attracted
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One of the most notorious aspects of the relentless pushing of transgender ideology in schools is that it is being imposed mostly by stealth and against the wishes of parents. As The BFD’s exposés have shown, radical and anti-scientific transgender ideology is frequently snuck into schools under the false
We’ve all seen the sob-stories from nongs who decided that, even when the looming scale of the Xi Plague had become obvious to everyone who wasn’t funded by Chinese state media or on the WHO junket, hey, they still had time to take that cruise. Even as some
Australia’s biggest union has broken ranks with the Labor Party and sided with the Morrison government over China. The Australian Worker’s Union has thrown its support behind Morrison’s push for an international investigation into the origins of the Xi Plague. Countering criticism of the government from Anthony
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. This week the show will focus on sweeping new emergency powers given to Jacinda Ardern’s “enforcement officers” and we’ll help you make sense of the relentless insanity sweeping both and New Zealand
Australia’s universities really are in trouble. For years, if not decades, they’ve been able to paper over the dry-rot in academe, mostly thanks to the seemingly endless rivers of gold trousered from overseas students. But, thanks to the Xi Plague, those rivers of gold have abruptly dried up.
Talk of a “deep state” might seem all conspiratorial and tinfoil-hatty, but it’s harder and harder to deny that there is a massive, unelected technocracy, even in Australia. Regardless of changing governments, this technocracy increasingly seems to see itself as the real ruling party. Rather than answering to the
I wasn’t, it’s fair to say, particularly enamoured of Stephen Conroy’s tenure as Communications Minister for the Rudd and Gillard governments. In that role, Conroy leaned heavily towards censorship, especially of the internet. Yet, Conroy was also one of the few Labor MPs to openly push back
While governments on both sides of the Tasman are loudly backslapping themselves for their response to the Wuhan virus, hard economic reality is starting to quietly bite. The Australian federal government has acknowledged the gaping hole its response has opened in public accounts: $320bn, or 16.4 percent of GDP,
While the Legacy media (with an eye on government handouts) might swoon over the New Zealand government’s response to the Chinese virus, the actual record is one of indecisiveness, ad hoc panic-button-pushing, non-stop evasion and deceit. Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks over border closures and social-distancing measures, then panicked
As exposed by The BFD, leaked Crown Law advice to New Zealand Police was that they had no legal basis on which to enforce the Ardern government’s panicked, draconian lockdown edicts. Which leads me, on this side of the Tasman, to wonder whether any Australian government or police force
