As AC/DC famously said, “It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock’n’roll”. Getting had, took, ripped off and under-paid: it’s all part and parcel of trying to make it in show business. As Spider Stacy of the Pogues once said to me,
Every now and again, some brave soul suggests putting educators on performance-based bonuses. And every time, education unions pitch a fit. Gee, I wonder why? Almost one third of Australian children and just over a quarter of Victoria’s students are failing to meet new proficiency standards for literacy and
As The BFD reported recently, accused kidnappers and torturers Mohammad Sharab and Laura Allam are regulars at “pro-Palestine” protests in Melbourne. They’re also whooping it up, Brownshirt-style, on university campuses. At Monash University in Melbourne, students filmed pro-Palestine activist Mohammad Sharab as he swore at Jewish students at
He can threaten Winston Peters all he likes, but it’s undeniable that former NSW premier and ALP heavyweight Bob Carr is a vocal proponent of Communist China. In fact, the Financial Review in 2018 openly described Carr as “China’s pawn”. Yet, as the Fin Review noted, Carr was
I grew up in Victoria (don’t judge me, it wasn’t always the way it’s become), and lived through the dark days of the early 90s. Back then, it seemed that hardly a week went by without another economic calamity: the Pyramid building society collapse, the Tricontinental bank
It looks like Chloe Swarbrick is fast running out of threadbare excuses to hide behind: even a bog-standard lefty like Anthony Albanese admits that her favourite genocide chant is “violent” and “has no place on our streets”. Still think it has a place on the streets of Auckland, Chloe? Do
He’s a busy boy, is Melbourne’s Mohammad Sharab — and he’s rubbing shoulders with the elite of the Melbourne left. Sharab is, of course, on bail for his alleged part in a shocking kidnapping in Melbourne in March. Along with prominent Muslim activist, Laura Allam, Sharab is accused
Whenever Australians have to endure the dreary virtue signals of “Welcome to Country”, it’s highly likely that those waxing solemn about the so-called “world’s oldest living culture” have never had any real exposure to the culture they’re fawning over. Or, indeed, experienced anything other than some fatuous,
It didn’t take long for the Albanese government to revert to Labor type. For all the hoopla over Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ two budget surpluses, what was ignored is that those were essentially windfall gains — due entirely to an unexpected surge in Chinese demand for iron ore, as well as
The wheels of justice grind slow, indeed. Still, a win against a corrupt, violent police force brutally enforcing unjust laws is a win for freedom, however belated. The only problem is that, in the interim, the fear of a police state is already instilled in the populace. After all, it
Here’s a first: a Muslim prayer room used as a hotbed of extremism. I’m sure that’s never happened before! I mean, it’s not as if places like Roselands Mosque in NSW have ever featured imams preaching, “Allah! Kill the Zionist Jews and purify al-Aqsa from Jewish
A newsreel shot during the North Africa campaign of WWII showed the famous Rats of Tobruk frying an egg on the hood of their vehicle. Even today, police on patrol in the Simpson Desert in Western Queensland can do the same. But all that’s a bit too much to
Back in the day, in my home town, a local financial institution collapsed spectacularly, leaving many working people out of pocket. Some of them, their life savings. Taxpayers in my home state were also stiffed nearly a billion dollars. Yet, as everyone in my home town knew, while the former
Many years ago, my wife and I were called to a meeting with the school principal, over an “incident” involving our son. He’d laid out another kid. Except, as it turned out, our son had been repeatedly bullied by the kid, given him plenty of warnings to back off,
Readers take note: April Fool’s Day was over a month ago, so it’s not a hoax when I write this: I finally agree with something Waleed Aly says. Long time BFD readers will know just what sort of contempt I hold for little Wally, but even a stopped
The Media Party is all aquiver that Winston Peters seems to have more courage than them when it comes to calling things as they seem. He’s doubled down on Bob Carr, calling him an ‘irrelevant ill-informed shill’ which, given the ample information that abounds on the internet, seems entirely
