The clown-show that is the Pacific Islands Forum came to a fitting conclusion yesterday, with a rogues’ gallery of banana republics lining up with their hands out. But, in their greed for foreign handouts, Pacific nations seem dangerously blind to the wolf that they’re inviting into their complacent sheep-fold.
If Jacinda Ardern thought Scott Morrison was going to be intimidated by her and her little friends’ mean-girl bullying act at the Pacific Islands Forum, she was sorely disappointed. In contrast to Ardern’s constant posturing for applause from the globalist peanut gallery at the UN, Morrison reminded her of
What is it about our media that, with one or two exceptions, they seem orgasmically wired to our prime minister. The endless items of witless trivia that impregnate the pages of today’s newspapers and magazines belie the true identity of the woman. It’s beyond time that the media
As Thomas Sowell notes, “intellectuals” are insulated from the consequences of their faddish monomanias in a way that almost no other profession is. As one leftist “intellectual” fad after another, from eugenics to communism, has collapsed in ignominy and misery, those responsible for festering these madnesses simply sail gaily on
BFD readers no doubt belong to that vast majority of happy folk, greatly to be envied, who neither know nor care who Elizabeth Farrelly is. So I must apologise for bursting your bubbles of blissful ignorance. If there was a pictorial calendar of watermelons, Farrelly would be its cover girl.
Legendary newspaperman Wilbur F. Storey famously said, “It is a newspaper’s duty to print the news and raise hell”. The left-media are conspicuously failing in their duty. The left-media don’t do “facts” any more: as leftist rag The Saturday Paper puts it, they do “narrative journalism”. In a
When I was a lad, Mum told me something about bullies: they’re only tough when they’re in a pack. They don’t have the guts to mouth off when they’re on their own, she said. For all her prattle about “kindness”, Jacinda Ardern is acting a lot
Jacinda Ardern got off on the wrong foot at Tuvalu, the theme this year is “Securing our Future in the Pacific” which, as you will have guessed, is primarily about climate change and how much money will change hands to address it. Ardern did not hold back from raising her
At least some of the useful idiots of Australian academia seem to be belatedly waking up to the fact that all that sweet, sweet Chinese money they’ve been gobbling blindly comes with some very cutting strings attached. The very people who indignantly screech about their “academic freedom!” when a
If, by some miracle, you know someone in Canberra who isn’t on the public payroll, it doesn’t take much to wind them up and set them going on about the staggering self-regard of the public service. Why, to hear the locals tell it, Australia’s public servants are
As I’ve written before, politicians on all sides know exactly what Australians think about migration – and take absolutely no notice. Survey after survey shows that Australians are fed up with ever-spiralling migration – not, as the elite would have it, because of “racism”, but because Australians are sick to death
As the push by radical “transgender” activists grows ever more shrill and demented, the push-back from parents and some politicians is growing stronger. After being blindsided by the transgender Blitzkrieg of the Waffen Cross-Dress, the forces of sanity and reason are at last finding their voice. They’re being bolstered
Is Scott Morrison handing out half a billion dollars in “go-away” money? Or buying Pacific loyalty? Of course, it would impolite to tell the blunt truth these days. Instead, it’s being diplomatically described as “climate change funding”. Scott Morrison will announce $500 million in climate change funding when he
As New Zealand goes through its current abortion debate, Kiwis can perhaps take some cold comfort that, across the Tasman, a very similar debate is being played out in the Australian state of New South Wales. Just as in New Zealand, the debate is no less contentious nor short of
The late great Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen is regarded as a hero and an anti-hero, depending upon what side of the political fence you sit. For myself, I always sat in the Joh camp and he and Lady Flo were the reason I left my beloved New Zealand
