Israel Folau has emerged as the unlikely champion of freedom of expression in Australia’s culture wars. Unlike too many spineless cowards in the public sphere, Folau is not only standing his ground he’s also taking the fight right up to the wokescolds. Israel Folau has broadened his case
Fresh from outraging Twitter wokescolds and spooking gutless advertisers by verbally bashing New Zealand’s Part-Time PM, Alan Jones is taking the rhetorical cudgels to another bunch of Kiwis. Well, to be fair, he’s not bashing the second-rate Kiwis infesting Australian rugby, but rather the Australian administrators who keep
Izzy Folau is getting a run for his money as the most unlikely, yet most necessary, champion of free speech in the culture wars in Australia. Alan Jones is a divisive figure, not just for the lefties who hate him with a passion, but even for many on the centre
A few years ago, Australia’s Department of Finance was widely derided for its risible YouTube recruitment ad, “The Game Changers”. But, while the ad was deservedly mocked for being cringey and awkward, it’s also a very telling insight into the Canberra Public Service bubble. While the ‘actors’ might
Something interesting is happening with “Indigenous” Australians. Not only is their population exploding faster than any other in Australia, but they are also apparently all moving to the cities. According to census data, Australia’s Aboriginal population is growing at twice the rate of everyone else, soaring by 20% in
Some years back, I was walking down the street when I was confronted with that scourge of the modern urban landscape: the Intersection ‘Honkers’. You know the ones: the invariably lefty activists (righties are presumably too busy actually working to be able to stand on street corners all day) forming
What is it about NSW Labor? It seems that, no sooner is one lot of shonks and grifters at the Sussex Street headquarters exposed (and even, rarely, jailed) that another crawls out of the woodwork. The current corruption inquiry is threatening to spill over into the federal party, especially given
The Morrison government has finally released the draft of its long-awaited religious freedom bill. While it will obviously take some time – and someone with more than a bush lawyer’s understanding – to sort through the bill, there are some initial grounds for encouragement. The government has, it says, tried to
If you think your son really is a boy, or your daughter a girl, you’re the worst bigot on the planet. It’s “science”. At least, according to a so-called “social scientist” – only slightly more scientific than voodoo. In fact, parents who refuse to bow to the sleazy intellectual
Eddie Obeid and his “left testicle”, former minister Ian McDonald, may be gone, but the stench of corruption around NSW Labor is still fouling the air at Sussex Street. About all that seems to have changed is that Labor politicians have ditched environmentally-friendly paper bags for their “cash donations”. Tut-tut,
Riffing on the name of a popular science website, it has been remarked that “Everyone f-ing loves science – until it contradicts their personal bullshit”. Never a truer word could be said about, not just activists, but so-called ‘science journalists’ who don’t seem to grasp even the fundamentals of science.
As Clive Hamilton argues in his book Silent Invasion, Australian institutions at all levels have been shockingly blind to the creeping threat of communist China. Successive governments, business, academia, even local councils, have been too dazzled by the lure of “Belt and Road Initiative” money to stop and give even
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds During her recent spat with Scott Morrison, our prime minister revealed something of herself. In claiming Australia had to ‘answer to the Pacific’, she made it plain that she is a Western masochist. It is an odd
NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge says “any Australian education institute that’s got a formal arrangement with the Confucius Institute should come under vastly closer scrutiny”.
The Australian columnist Gerard Henderson says there’s “a lot of intolerance on the left” and a desire to see anyone of a conservative disposition off the air. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
As the Pacific’s banana republics eagerly grasp at the rivers of yuan gushing from Beijing and cock opportunistic snooks at Australia, PM Scott Morrison is strengthening ties with a nation that has far less reason to trust China’s expansionism in the region. Of course, Australia and Vietnam are
