A much-welcome breath of sanity wafted through the Australian parliament this week, with the repeal of the idiotic “medivac” legislation. Medivac was a deliberate white-anting of Australia’s border-protection laws foisted on us by multimillionaire green numpties from the Harbourside Mansion set, like Kerryn Phelps. It was
Trans-Tasman Talk Ep.12 – Whose Tasman Nations? Presented in association with The Unshackled. Trans-Tasman Talk (TTT) is hosted by Tim Wilms from Melbourne and Dieuwe de Boer from Auckland. The show debuts every Tuesday at 9 pm New Zealand time and 7 pm Melbourne time. Episodes are broadcast
Imagine if a secretive (especially Christian) religious cult asserted that they are above the law of the land, and that police should be restrained from investigating alleged widespread crimes in their community. The reaction from the media-political elite would be immediate and furious. But, as always, when religious supremacy
Congratulations, New Zealand. You lost at the rugby and cricket World Cups again, but at least you finished ahead of Australia. Now you can also claim the dubious prize of out-virtue-signalling Australia on climate change. The passage of the Zero Carbon Act has New Zealand head and shoulders
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the public is now “starting to wake up” to China’s attempts to “infiltrate” the political system, following “stunning” reports a Beijing-backed espionage ring tried to interfere in the last federal election.
In 1954, the Petrov Affair rocked Australian politics, setting off a chain of events that would shape the political landscape for decades. When Soviet diplomat and KGB colonel Vladimir Petrov defected to Australia, offering to reveal details of Soviet spy rings in exchange for asylum, the resulting investigations (including a
Was it really only two months ago that I wrote that the Australian state of Victoria was staring down the barrel of disastrous summer blackouts thanks to its “progressive” energy policies? Because guess what? Thousands of [Victorian] homes have been without power on Thursday due to extreme heat. There were
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, weather cycles, bushfires and politics in Australia. He was an active member of the Mt Walker bush fire brigade for over 20 years. He remembers the terrible Millennium drought and he and his wife fought
As Australia’s greatest rock band, TISM, once said: “ain’t social change amazing?” Once upon a time, Vietnam was the war people wanted to forget about. “There were no D-Day heroes in 1973,” as Cold Chisel sang. But by the late 80s, a welcome turnaround had ensued and
Things keep going from bad to worse for Australia’s animal activists. Not only have the loony fanatics behind the wave of terrorising attacks of Australian farmers been stripped of their tax-exempt charitable status, now their friends and relatives lurking in high places in government bureaucracies are coming under
Presented in association with The Unshackled. Trans-Tasman Talk (TTT) is hosted by Tim Wilms from Melbourne and Dieuwe de Boer from Auckland. The show debuts every Tuesday at 9pm New Zealand time and 7pm Melbourne time. Episodes are broadcast live on Youtube via Right Minds, The Unshackled, and The
After months of paralysis, during which dozens of innocent Australian farming families have been forced to endure terrifying invasions by swivel-eyed fanatics, vegan activists “Aussie Farms” is finally getting a taste of comeuppance. Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has flagged the potential for “sterner and tougher” crackdowns on activist
Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating coined the phrase “relevance deprivation syndrome” to describe former politicians who imagine that the world hangs on their every utterance. He would be wise to consider that that applies to him as much as anyone else. He might also care to ponder the phrase
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson says “if anything, I blame the Greens and the Labor Party” for contributing to the severity of the bushfire crisis gripping the nation. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
