Now, don’t go getting too worked up, BFD readers. I mean, when I read the headline, Australia to ‘reconnect’ with NZ first, my curiosity was immediately piqued, too. But, no, Scott Morrison isn’t working on some dastardly scheme to bring down New Zealand’s coalition government by getting
You can always tell when someone is telling the truth about China just by observing how furiously China attacks them. Or, if they’re a Chinese citizen, by how quickly they disappear or how excoriating and grovelling their subsequent “self-criticism” and apologies are. Peter Dutton is not a Chinese
Satire site The Babylon Bee is having a field day as students across the Western world are being effectively forced into home-schooling. “Majority Of Homeschoolers Arrive At College Woefully Unprepared For Gender Studies” quipped one headline. Another related that pubic school teachers were worried that “Homeschooling Is Making Kids
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com In 2001 Professor Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology and director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, predicted up to 150,000 could die in the U.K. alone from mad cow disease. Panicked politicians and ballistic bureaucrats ordered
When I wrote, in the early days of the Chinese virus, that “the real sheeple are the panic-stricken lemmings of the elite”, I argued that the common folk were keeping calm and carrying on, while the elite were losing their minds. I naturally felt a bit foolish when, just
The time is long past for a far-reaching inquiry into the administration of justice in the Australian state of Victoria. Victorian police and public officials have been embarrassed and exposed by a series of public scandals and unsavoury revelations. Police and government politicians strenuously denied that the state had
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com We’ve been sold a bill of goods by global agencies and national and state governments, aided by a media ever salivating for sensation. We’ve been compliant little citizens, setting aside our cultural scepticism of authority and replacing our freedom and ability to think for
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms continue the endless lockdown shows by bringing you the breakdown of the week’s news.
In the final episode of the classic comedy The Young Ones, postman Lennie Henry greets the lads with, “Gut morgen, meine kleine freundelische!” “Bloody hell,” says Rik. “Give them a uniform and they think they’re Hitler!” The same might be said for bureaucrats and coppers given a taste of
Repressive police state, massive government spending, millions left dependent on Big Nanny, probably for years – what wouldn’t a leftist love about our governments’ panicked responses to the Chinese virus? Which explains why they’re jumping on the bandwagon with obscene haste. Left-wing activist group GetUp, despite its protestations
The Morrison government recently announced that it was lowering the threshold for screening foreign acquisitions in Australia to $0. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg promised that all foreign investments would be scrutinised to protect the national interest. Politicians such as Pauline Hanson and George Christensen have expressed little confidence in the Foreign
As I recently wrote, police forces across the Western world are arbitrarily abusing their new-found powers as governments impose increasingly onerous lock-downs in response to the Chinese virus. Now, police are shocked – shocked! – to discover that citizens aren’t exactly pleased with that. One of the state’s
As Australians are dragged into the same lockdowns as New Zealand, we should expect that those in charge and on the front line are the best we have. But the shocking cluster of infections and deaths in regional Tasmania undermine that confidence, one way or the other. If rumours about
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The trials of Cardinal George Pell are perhaps the most consequential in Australian legal, media and social spheres in decades. But their lessons will almost certainly be ignored. The legal system, especially in Victoria, will engage in assiduous arse-covering. Victorian Police Minister, the unflushable Labor hack Lisa Neville, has
As one journalist recently noted, Australians in NSW went to bed one night and woke up in the morning in a police state. Overnight, the state’s government, in lockstep with most other Australian states, had passed “emergency laws” restricting citizens to their homes, except for…well, nobody’s exactly
