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The Left Hate Pauline Hanson for Being Right

The Left Hate Pauline Hanson for Being Right

Once again, Pauline Hanson is being pilloried by the left-media for daring to tell the truth. When Hanson remarked, in relation to an impending Senate inquiry into family law, that – shock! – sometimes women tell lies, the left-media went into meltdown. Again. The usual leftist yakking heads shuttled back-

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Ardern Will Not Bag a Bargain From Trump

Ardern Will Not Bag a Bargain From Trump

These two political figures are chalk and cheese with very little, if anything, in common. They rule from opposite ends of the political spectrum, where Trump is a nationalist, the powerful master of a booming economy, and Ardern a globalist, seemingly unaware that her tiny nation is limping along at

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Morrison and Ardern – Chalk and Cheese

Morrison and Ardern – Chalk and Cheese

The treatment Australian Prime Minister Scott Morison is receiving in America highlights the stark difference in the regard in which New Zealand and Australia are held by President Trump. It shows the contrast between being a trusted ally and just a friend. It also brings into focus the disparity of

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Tasmania’s Clownshow Politics Just Got Woker

Tasmania’s Clownshow Politics Just Got Woker

The clownshow that is Tasmanian politics careens on, honking and hooting, overstuffed with idiots playing to the children in the crowd. Launceston City Council, which is the political equivalent of being appointed General Manager of your local Bunnings sausage sizzle, is going all-out to cement Tasmania’s status of

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Friday Nightcap

Friday Nightcap

The Institute of Public Affairs launch of Ian Plimer’s new book from Connor Court Publishing, ‘Not For Greens’, in Melbourne on Tuesday 22 July 2014.

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Victoria Dammed to Socialist Oblivion

Victoria Dammed to Socialist Oblivion

Victorian premier, socialist left faction leader Daniel Andrews, seems determined to turn that state into Australia’s very own little Venezuela. Whether it’s promulgating the creepy Marxist nonsense of “Safe Schools” (the template for New Zealand’s “Mates and Dates”), greedily trousering billions from the Chinese communist regime, or

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A Sequined Heel Stamping on a Human Face – Forever

A Sequined Heel Stamping on a Human Face – Forever

In the 1980s, it was assumed that the great threat to Western freedoms was the “theocons” of the religious right. To an extent, this was true enough: groups such as the Moral Majority tried to muscle their particular brand of fundamentalist Christianity into everything from government to artistic expression. But,

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Is She Too Black for Them?

Is She Too Black for Them?

This will be a familiar story to The BFD readers: a gutless council caves in to unhinged activists and tries to shut down a speaking event by a visiting public figure. The only differences are that it’s Australia, not New Zealand, and the public figure is an Aboriginal woman.

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How Should We Defend Ourselves Against China? Pt 2

How Should We Defend Ourselves Against China? Pt 2

In the first part of this series, I looked at just how flawed assumptions lead to wrong answers about how Australia and New Zealand should shape their strategic response to the “Rise of China”, especially its increasingly blatant efforts to turn the Pacific into a Chinese lake. Australia and New

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World’s Greatest Participation Trophy

World’s Greatest Participation Trophy

Australian Rules Football really is becoming as soft as rugby fans have always said it is. We’ve got fans getting kicked out for correctly observing that an umpire is a “bald-headed flog”, over-zealous security guards rushing on to the field to break up a couple of players

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Are Tasmania’s Tranny Laws Going Back in the Closet?

Are Tasmania’s Tranny Laws Going Back in the Closet?

Tasmanian state politics rarely get much notice in the outside world; which is more their pity than ours, because they’re missing out on a clown show that would be endlessly entertaining if you weren’t being directly impacted by it. I often describe Tasmania’s parliament as a cross

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How Should We Defend Ourselves Against China? Pt 1

How Should We Defend Ourselves Against China? Pt 1

In a previous series of articles (here and here), I examined the “hard strategic choices facing New Zealand” (and Australia), as outlined by national security academic Hugh White. As I noted in those articles, while many of White’s assumptions were dubious at best, he at least brings into sharp

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