Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman. There’s one case of COVID-19 left in New Zealand, but yet lockdown goes on indefinitely and the border with Australia remains closed, as do the borders between the Australia states. The new
Far be it for me to take even a modicum of shameful pleasure at another’s misfortune, but, as a Tasmanian, it is just the tiniest bit gratifying to watch Western Australia admit that they’ve stuffed their economy. After all, Tasmania has had to endure years of smugness and
The chickens of the Australian left’s disastrous experiments with open borders just keep coming home to roost. An Iraqi asylum seeker has been jailed for at least two-and-a-half years after he kidnapped and assaulted a three-year-old girl at a Sydney shopping centre a week
“Let the punishment fit the crime,” so the saying goes. In which case, you would be forgiven for thinking that planning to murder hundreds of people would surely merit a stiffer sentence than defrauding taxpayers. Think again. Ali Khalif Shire Ali was determined to fire a machine gun into thousands
The tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party influence are reaching deeper and deeper into almost every facet of Australian life. Whether it’s buying up valuable strategic assets, from farms to ports, or buying up politicians, Beijing is pouring billions into silently invading Australia – and finding no end of greedy
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Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com Jackie Trad is one of the most aggressive, personal politicians in the nation, not only behind the scenes and in the halls of power, but also in front of the camera and online. It’s odd then she is now complaining about feeling a little bruised
As I remarked when I interviewed Australian student Drew Pavlou recently, how institutions and nations respond to China is often an acid test of principle. Leaders who bang on endlessly about climate change happily sign an agreement that allows far and away the world’s largest CO2 emitter to keep
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms discuss the latest news and developments happening in the Tasman on this weekly show, starting at 8pm every Friday. With the Coronacrisis moving into a fallout phase, two terrible polls for National saw the collapse of Simon Bridges and the rise of Todd Muller
If nothing else, the Xi Plague has made painfully clear the absolute folly of depending on China. Leaving aside the moral argument of trading with a repressive, genocidal communist dictatorship, putting your economic eggs in one basket is a dangerous gamble. Especially critical supplies. An international study of essential supply
Not long ago, a family-run hospitality business in my town posted a plea for help on the local Facebook page: please come and buy our stuff! In anticipation of some big annual events in Tasmania, months ago they had ordered piles of perishable stock. Now it was all sitting
For 130 years, the Australian Labor Party has touted itself as the “party of the worker”. For at least the last thirty years, that’s been a blatant lie. Not one federal Labor parliamentarian has ever had a blue-collar job. Most have never had a job outside politics, full
As revealed on The BFD, Crown Law advice to the New Zealand police was that enforcing the government’s lockdowns was beyond their legal powers. Naturally, the government rushed to cover its arse and to shout How dare you! at the Opposition for having the temerity to point out that
“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
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
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-
