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The vote may have been done and dusted before anyone’s dinner had cooled on election night, but the fallout from Australians’ emphatic rejection of the “Indigenous Voice” referendum continues. Not just the temper-tantrums and name-calling from the sore-loser left. We’re finally seeing, for one, just how much of
If the Albanese government was a car, you’d write it off to the scrapheap, instead of pushing it from one disaster to the next. Well, Albo is running a car, of sorts: a clown car. Only when it breaks down, it tends to spew out foreign-born rapists, murderers, and
It’s an old tradition for newspapers to run April Fool’s Day stories, and on first reading, Nick Cater’s Australian column on renewables subsidies might surely qualify. A quick check of readily available data, though, shows that this is no joke: the Australian government has spent billions of
Once again, a so-called “fact checker” has been caught lying through its teeth. It should surprise absolutely no-one that it was Australia’s ABC. These guys have woeful form, so much so that even their own colleagues have felt compelled to call them out. Now, they’ve peddled a whopper
I see a great many memes bewailing that schools don’t teach kids things like taxes, household budgeting and other such ‘adulting’ tasks. Once upon a time, of course, we learned such things at our parents’ knees. When my mother went back to work after her youngest (me) started school,
Australia’s taxpayer-funded (and left-wing propaganda behemoth) broadcaster costs us north of a billion dollars a year. It would be slightly less if its staff weren’t constantly shooting their mouths off and prompting defamation settlements. From former commandos to businessmen, and of course, Liberal politicians Christian Porter and Andrew
Once again, Australians are asking themselves, ‘Where’s Albo?’ Well, we know we can always find him somewhere overseas or doing a cringe Dad Dance at some pop starlet’s mega-concert. Where you won’t find him, though, is in a town like Alice. Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says youth
Nicholas Khoo Associate Professor of International Politics and Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Indo-Paciifc Affairs (Christchurch), University of Otago. Last week’s visit of the Australian and British defence and foreign ministers to Adelaide and Canberra is another step in the evolution of the trilateral AUKUS security and technology partnership.
As Anthony Hopkins once admitted, “actors are pretty stupid”. Nowhere is this more obvious than when actors, as they regularly do, subject us to the dreary ritual of lecturing us on current affairs. Mostly, of course, these overpaid, preening parrots are merely doing what they do for a living: squawking
One of the more prominent Australian politicians during the 1980s and 90s was a man called Neal Blewett. He was Minister of Health, Minister of Trade, and Minister of Social Security during the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating Governments between 1983 and 1994. As long serving Health Minister Blewett oversaw
Word to the wise, University of Auckland: quit while you’re ahead. Here in Australia we’ve already seen the debate over racially segregated spaces at universities played out, and it did not work out well for the segregators. And that was without even a firebrand senior government member on
It’s well established by now that the loudest “climate change” botherers are almost invariably the worst climate offenders. Anecdotally, BFD readers will be familiar with the likes of Izzy Cook, the teenage “climate striker” so deservedly mocked by Heather du Plessis-Allan for her rampant hypocrisy. Quantitatively, university studies have
When is this madness going to end? The derangement of record-high mass immigration is so out of hand that even the bien pensant lefty readers of The Age can see it. Even if the scribblers at Pravda-on-the-Yarra can’t quite bring themselves to. But how much longer can anyone keep
Sooner or later, even the most demented, smooth-brained Climate Cultist has a discomforting collision with reality. Across the world, governments and corporations have been quietly backing away from their “climate commitments”, as they realise, firstly, how ruinously expensive they are, and, secondly, how utterly useless. Car rental giant Hertz is
Despite Anthony Albanese’s unconvincing pledge not to allow anti-Semitism to “find so much as a foothold” in Australia, it’s horrifyingly obvious that it has not just a foothold, but a stranglehold. Jewish households and businesses are fleeing certain Melbourne suburbs. Mobs chant anti-Semitic, genocidal slogans, with politicians marching
