Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of ‘voluntary assisted dying’ insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle Australia, a leading lobby group for VAD, explains in its website’s FAQ that: People
Well, that’s the parliamentary sitting year done, and for the Australian prime minister, it surely can’t have come quick enough. 2023 was a horror year for Anthony Albanese, once the glow of actually winning an election with the record-lowest primary vote in a century wore off. Mind you,
In just one particularly bad flu season, Tasmania alone experienced hundreds of deaths from influenza. It barely made the news. In the three years of Covid, Tasmania recorded a total of 256 “Covid deaths”. Given the notoriously generous standard for a “Covid death”, it’s likely that the seasonal flu
This 1930s revival is getting out of hand. We’ve got war erupting on three continents, weak Conservative leadership in Britain, a doddering president and a left-wing administration in the US and black-shirted thugs bashing and burning in cities across the West… And, boy howdy, do we have unbridled anti-Semitic
The fallout from the High Court and Labor’s mind-boggling decision to turn nearly one hundred and fifty dangerous foreign criminals loose in Australia just keeps coming. Now a fourth bad wog has been re-arrested — and all Anthony Albanese’s top law officer can do is shout spittle-flecked abuse at
Brittany Higgins has wrapped up her last day of cross-examination in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation suit, and it didn’t fail to deliver. The biggest revelation of her testimony was to confirm what everyone in Australia already knew: the taxpayer has been stiffed $2.3 million, straight to Brittany’s
The Australian High Court’s decision to order the release of foreign-born criminals in detention lurches from farcical to frightful. As previously reported by The BFD, one of the bad wogs disappeared after refusing to wear an ankle bracelet. Within days, two more were re-arrested, including a violent serial sex
Australian PM Anthony Albanese must be looking forward to the summer break with more anxiety than a schoolkid dreading the end-of-year report. Not because of the chance to goof off all summer, because, let’s face it, who’d notice the difference, with this government? Frankly, the country might be
Now, who didn’t see this coming? In the least surprising incident since rain turned out to be wet, at least two of the foreign criminals turned loose by the High Court have already been arrested again. In the case of Afghan serial rapist Aliyawar Yawari, the only surprise was
As I wrote recently, Australia’s Very Special Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, has set himself up for spectacular humiliation at this year’s elite climate beano. Boofhead is all set to prattle about “renewables”, apparently unaware that the “climate change” script has changed, yet again. Renewables are
And the Lehrmann/Higgins circus just keeps rolling on. The criminal trial for rape against Bruce Lehrmann was ignominiously dropped last year. Now it’s being fought out again in all but name, as Lehrmann sues Channel Ten and former The Project journalist Lisa Wilkinson for defamation. The defence is
One-term prime ministers are not unknown in Australian politics, but for a while they were the exception rather than the rule. Fraser, Hawke and Howard ruled the Lodge for multiple terms. But Howard was the last to survive a first-term slump and win successive elections. In the years since, Australians
Anyone who says you can’t pick your family has never met an ‘Aboriginal’ box-ticker. From out of thin air, these pasty-white wannabes are able to conjure an imaginary family of ‘Aboriginal ancestors’, guaranteeing a lifetime of unfettered access to welfare, promotions and sundry ‘indigenous’ benefits. Not to mention the
Summer has barely started, and Boofhead’s already starting with the lame excuses for looming blackouts and brownouts. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will warn hostile actors could weaponise climate change to potentially sabotage Australia’s “fragile” energy networks, as severe weather events increase threats of global political
As BFD readers are no doubt aware, certain groups in New Zealand are continually over-represented in domestic violence and child abuse statistics. Things in Australia are little different. And in Australia, just as in New Zealand, the chattering classes and the elites’ obsession with valorising ‘Noble Savage’ delusions of ‘traditional
Thanks to the dodgy, blatantly biased Canberra legal establishment, alleged juror misconduct, and “fragile mental health” of the complainant, Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial for allegedly raping Brittany Higgins was never resolved. After delays and a mistrial, the whole case was dropped by the Canberra DPP (who subsequently came under
