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
If sanctimony and hypocrisy were renewable energy sources, the Pacific Islands Forum could fuel the globe for the foreseeable future. Rarely has such a tiny pond crammed with such oversized bottom-feeders belched out more insincerity and fraudulent greed. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack’s remark that Fiji will continue
As I’ve written many times, now, Jacinda Ardern is more and more shaping up to be New Zealand’s Kevin Rudd: a fresh-faced leader who rockets up to record highs in the opinion polls and sets the media swooning like a pack of teenage girls – and then collapses in
A little-known fight is underway in western Sydney, where a group of Maori has laid claim to a parcel of land. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
