Despite the image of the rugged Aussie bushman, Australia has long been one of the most urbanised societies in the world. Even in 1889, the narrator of Banjo Paterson’s Clancy of the Overflow, “sitting in my dingy little office…[in] the dusty, dirty city” was more typical of the
As Brexit has shown beyond all doubt, the media-political elite regard voters with utter disdain. At best, they regard voters as an annoying inconvenience: an annoyance to be herded to the polls to dutifully rubber-stamp whatever their superiors have deigned to put before them as “election issues”. Otherwise, the elite
Mark Latham was the last genuinely “Labor” Labor leader. Naturally, the party elite hated him. Yet, despite his rough-hewn persona, “Biff” achieved some significant wins during his time as Opposition leader: not only did he personally rein in the worst excesses of politicians’ Sun King-like retirement benefits, he was a
For too long, far-left activists and their acolytes in the education bureaucracy have been given free rein to use schools as their personal laboratories to subject impressionable children to loopy Marxist ‘theories’. Parents have been left dumbfounded and helpless to act. Any who’ve dared speak out are bullied and
Why are Australian taxpayers subsidising vegan extremists who have been terrorising Australian farmers and are disrupting Australian cities? It’s bad enough that so many Australians have to endure being threatened and bullied by these malnourished nutters, but rewarding them with our tax money just adds insult to injury. Activists
As many people have remarked, whatever you think of her politics, Hanson has guts and persistence. In the lead-up to the last election, Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party endured an astonishing barrage of hatchet-jobs and gotchas. The legacy media often seemed to be working hand-in-glove with underhanded political
Where will we hold Australia, we who have no other country? Not Indigenous, merely born here. LES MURRAY Australian politics is periodically rocked by “progressive” fads which generate much sound and fury but ultimately fizzle out because Australians are by and large simply too sensible to indulge such flights of
Is Corbynite anti-Semitism taking root in the left wing of Australian politics? There have been disturbing rumbles for years in leftist politics, as the anti-Semitic “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) has become practically an article of faith. Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has appeared at rallies where placards depicted Jews as
The Israel Folau saga just keeps rolling on: on the very day that Folau’s claim against his former employers was lodged with Australia’s Federal Court, it was revealed that his cousin, Josiah Folau, has also lost his job over his religious views. Just to thicken the plot, Josiah
Anthony Albanese just keeps stumbling along in his new role as opposition leader. After a humiliating back down in his standoff with union bovver-boy John Setka, now one of his frontbenchers has gone and picked a fight with the White House. Kristina Keneally is one of Labor’s quota queens
Jacinda is nothing more than a virtue signalling prime minister who has won international acclaim for donning a hijab and hugging people, but telling Australia how to manage its own immigration policy is going to cost us dearly. We have already speculated that her finger-wagging at Australia will result in
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says there is “idiocy” at every level of government, but local administrations are currently “taking the prize for the biggest idiots of all”. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Just to prove that the Australian left has learned nothing from their recent election drubbing, Labor’s Kristina Keneally is stamping her little feet and holding her little bweafs, demanding the right to silence the free speech of yet another big ol’ “far right” meanie. Keneally is Australian politics’ most
While it’s mildly surprising that vegan activists have been able to summon up the strength to carry their recent campaign of intimidation and violence against farming families, what’s been truly shocking is the indulgence with which police have treated these soy-powered terrorists. When militants raided a goat farm
I’ve written many times about the sense of déjà vu I frequently get when observing New Zealand politics. It might be some comfort to readers to consider the parallels between Jacinda Ardern and Kevin Rudd (remember that guy?), but there is another depressingly familiar narrative emerging. Despite the fact
Jacinda Ardern is certainly racking up the achievements on her trip to Australia. She has triumphed where few brave souls have ever succeeded: uniting Australia’s two major parties… Against her. In these days of hyper-partisanship especially, there are usually not many issues that bring Labor and the Liberals within
