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
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
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
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-
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
As I wrote recently on The BFD, governments’ approach to the Chinese Virus pandemic might well be termed the “Moloch Option”, referring to the ancient Mediterranean practice of sacrificing the young to placate malevolent forces. Human sacrifice and especially child sacrifice was a nasty enough business, but some were worse
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. This week the show will focus on New Zealand and Australia’s continued move away from COVID-1984 restrictions, as winter starts to arrive.
What’s been particularly noticeable about the progress of the Chinese virus pandemic in Australia is that the worst clusters of outbreaks are directly associated with the incompetence of those at the top. The North-West Regional Hospital in Tasmania and the nursing home in Western Sydney. The Ruby Princess
Australia’s universities certainly have more front than Myers, as the old saying goes. Not only have they allowed themselves to become blatant enablers of Chinese Communist Party influence in Australia; as the Chinese virus pandemic first began to come to light, they blatantly undermined Australia’s early border control
As I’ve said many times, there are a few hard and fast rules for dealing with the mainstream media. First, never believe a headline. Second, when an article claims, “science says…” or “new study shows…”, automatically assume that it doesn’t. Third and most important of all, always, always,
The Babylon Bee recently published a satirical article, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party had disbanded its propaganda team, “as American media doing their job for them”. In a case of life-imitating-satire, an Australian university is doing Beijing’s dirty work for them: harassing and persecuting a student
Nothing shows the complete disconnect of the media-political class from the reality of everyday Australia than immigration. The elite just love immigration. Mass immigration, especially. Like a sugar-junkie gorging on an endless river of chocolate, they can’t get enough of it. The merest suggestion that they ought
