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Stay off the Glug-Glug, Love

We live in a time of near-universal deceit, but one of the biggest lies sold to us is that “women never lie about rape”. Does anyone with half a working brain cell really believe that? Now, before the autistic screeching starts, I’m not saying that women always lie about

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How to Sink Your Client’s Battleship

How to Sink Your Client’s Battleship

No wonder Bruce Lehrmann was grinning from ear to ear outside court. His defamation case against Channel Ten and Lisa Wilkinson is on a roll. Lehrmann is sueing the broadcaster and the journalist for defamation, over The Project’s scoop interview with former Canberra staffer Brittany Higgins, who claims she

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Best We Can Do Is a Rubber Duck and Stoker “Cheeky” Hoyle

Best We Can Do Is a Rubber Duck and Stoker “Cheeky” Hoyle

My, my — what a difference an election or two can make. Last year, it was Australia leading New Zealand on regional defence, with Jacinda Ardern and Nanaia Mahuta undercutting our countries’ traditional allies at every step. Now, it’s New Zealand stepping up to the plate, and Australia taking the

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The Flannery Award 2023 Goes to the BOM

The Flannery Award 2023 Goes to the BOM

Weather forecasting is a famously inexact science, yet we’re supposed to believe that an agency which has repeatedly failed Australians when it comes to devastating weather events is nonetheless able to accurately predict the global climate one hundred years hence. To be fair, to an extent climate is easier

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When Will the Levies Break?

When is a tax not a tax? When the government doesn’t want to admit that it’s imposing yet another tax. So, they call it a “levy”, a “duty”, or even just a “price”. Because they know perfectly well that if they were thieving yet more of people’s

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Summer of Little Love for Little Albo

Summer of Little Love for Little Albo

The parliamentary summer break surely couldn’t have come soon enough for Anthony Albanese. The last months of 2023 have been a constant bludgeon for the Australian PM. The discontent that simmered for most of the year over spiralling cost-of-living, driven largely by both “Net Zero” and a tsunami of

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Aus Reaps the Whirlwind of Do-Gooding Past

Aus Reaps the Whirlwind of Do-Gooding Past

I’m not the world’s biggest Elon Musk fan: the fellow does some great things, some awful things, and a whole lot of very silly things. But, he was absolutely correct, when he said, What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while

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You Can’t Please All of the People

You Can’t Please All of the People

Democracy is, above all else, the art of compromise. Short of the sort of hive-mind that the left can only dream of, citizens of a polity are going to have very different and often opposing needs, wants and opinions. You can’t, to paraphrase FDR, please all of the people,

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Have the Courage of Your Convictions

Have the Courage of Your Convictions

Former Australian PM Tony Abbott has a new book coming out, and it’s certain to send the chattering classes into a screaming fit of triggernometry. With a working title of Peak Insanity, Abbott promises to tackle “The climate cult, the gender fluidity push, magic pudding economics, the cultural self-loathing

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How Soon Before We Pay for the Luxury of Cash?

I recently leased a PO box for business purposes. It turns out to have been an unintentionally prescient move: Australia Post has mooted plans to cut residential delivery from daily to every two days. We’ve come a long way from the ‘primitive’ 19th century, when mail was delivered twice

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Zey Have Veys of Making You Electrify

Remember when it was a crazy conspiracy theory that they were going to take your gas cooking and heating away? Oh, yes, you can guess where this is heading. California is already banning gas appliances. Australia’s wokest state, Victoria, is banning them in new constructions. Now, they’re coming

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Biden Boldly Goes Where Albo Only Grovels

Biden Boldly Goes Where Albo Only Grovels

It’s a fine state of affairs when even the doddering, demented Biden administration is far tougher on the Chinese communist regime than the Anthony Albanese government in Australia. It almost makes one yearn for halcyon days of the Scott Morrison government. Say what you will about Scotty from Marketing:

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It Was Basically a Con Game

It Was Basically a Con Game

I am sure there are many people on the BFD and elsewhere who don’t truly believe me when I tell them that the left wing – the Labour party – has basically been a con game. Many probably, having spent their lives ‘swallowing it whole’ (and proving my point), secretly think

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Why Would You Trust Them Again?

Why Would You Trust Them Again?

Yet again, the real Long Covid strikes: the snowballing public health disasters as a consequence of panicked, despotic Covid policies. We’re already seeing the devastating affects of worse-than-useless Covid policies on children, a generation plagued by developmental delays and declining mental health. Preventable diseases in adults are spiking due

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Focused On ‘Grayndler, Not Gaza’

Focused On ‘Grayndler, Not Gaza’

The fallout from the Albanese government’s craven betrayal of Israel continues. It was bad enough that Albanese joined with Luxon and Trudeau in issuing a mealy-mouthed, gutless joint statement which is effectively a green light to Hamas. (Although even that was too harsh for the snaggle-toothed madwoman screeching and

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Still Think It Was About the Science?

Still Think It Was About the Science?

Does anyone still really believe Covid policies were ‘all about the science’? If so, please get in touch: I’ve got shares in the Sydney Harbour Bridge I need to sell, cheap. From the earliest months of the pandemic, it was increasingly obvious that Covid policy was being driven not

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