Ever notice that they never build wind farms or acres of solar plants in Ultimo, Ponsonby, or Fitzroy? It’s funny how green-left types who worship at the altar of their bird-chomping eco-crucifixes and deserts of silicon and glass never want them in their back yards. Put up a field
As if Anthony Albanese hasn’t stepped on enough landmines already, the deadliest ordnance any Labor government can trigger has just started ticking: boats. Illegal boat arrivals have been political kryptonite for Labor for decades, ever since John Howard ordered the Tampa turned back. Since then, the pattern has been
One of the big problems with medical and scientific malpractice is that it’s a lot easier to commit than expose or remedy. Thalidomide, for example: it took years and tens of thousands of deformed babies before the drug was taken off the market. By the time the Wakefield paper
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
We Australians really have become a nation of nasty, bitter wowsers, haven’t we? Once upon a time we either turned a blind eye to, bemusedly tolerated or even celebrated politicians who didn’t mind a beer or two. Fourth prime minister George Reid famously referred to his ample frame
Nothing speaks louder of the complete derangement of the elite classes than their uniform obsession with the bonkers scam of “Net Zero”. On few other issues, apart from immigration, are the political, media, and chattering classes so out of touch with we hoi polloi. “Climate change” might be a monomania
If only insanity was an energy source, we’d be living in abundance forever. Insanity is, as the saying goes, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The loons spruiking “Net Zero” are barking mad. Every time there is a mass power outage, due to failures
I wonder what Labor’s internal polling is telling them? Because, if the latest media stunt from “Photo Op Albo” is anything to go by, they must be very deep in the poo, indeed. The Australian PM is taking a leaf out of Jacinda Ardern’s playbook. Anthony Albanese has
Rt Hon Christopher LuxonPrime Minister Joint statement from the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand The Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand yesterday issued the following statement on reports of Israel’s planned military operation in Rafah. We are gravely concerned by indications that Israel is
Half a million Victorians enjoyed a candlelit dinner on Valentine’s Day — whether they wanted it or not. And they’d better get used to it. At least 530,000 homes in Victoria were blacked out yesterday, and hundreds of thousands are likely to remain without power for “days, if
Nicholas Khoo Associate Professor of International Politics, University of Otago University of Otago The National-led coalition government is off to a fast start internationally. In envisioning a more central role for the ANZAC alliance with Australia, and possible involvement in the AUKUS security pact, it is recalibrating New Zealand’s
The ABC costs Australians north of a billion dollars a year. Long-suffering taxpayers are entitled to wonder how much less they’d be paying, if the Ultimo Collective didn’t keep defaming people. On the other hand, centre-right figures seem to be finally learning from one of the left’s
I recently spotted a meme depicting a boatload of “migrants” saying, “We demand to live in safety” — with the rebuttal, “So do — now, f- off!” In memo veritas, indeed. As many parts of Europe are discovering the hard way, “refugees welcome” fast turns into “lock up your women and children”
As I wrote yesterday, the green-left in Australia is going full Brownshirt. Determined to put the socialism back into National Socialism, they’re not even hiding their virulent anti-Semitism any more. Not that they’ve been leaving much room for doubt, anyway. Certainly not since Greens politicians proudly marched alongside
Labor just loves bad wogs. Whether it’s raping old ladies in Australia, or murdering Jews in Israel, it seems there’s no level of foreign criminality the Albanese government isn’t prepared to pander to. As reported on The BFD late last year, the Albanese government responded to a
