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-
Donald Trump might be crudely merciless to his and America’s enemies, but he is generous and gracious to friends. He also doesn’t forget a slight. Consider his meeting with former Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who got bounced while Trump tackled an Obamacare vote, and then treated to
Latest on the cash ban, which was presented in Parliament today, with Robbie Barwick from the CEC.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has pointed to some “troubling” footage of Liberal MP Gladys Liu on Chinese television that is “endorsing her, in effect, even though she was in a contest with another Chinese candidate in Chisholm”. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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
If you’re sick of ‘woke’ corporations caving to the increasingly extreme demands of noisy far-left activists, you’re not alone. The Morrison government is putting corporate Australia on notice that it sorely needs to get back to its fulfilling its proper function: making money for shareholders, building the
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
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
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
