AUS Politics
Major Telco Goes Down for a Day
As more and more people are finding out, as the reality of ‘Net Zero’ bites hard, you don’t realise how much you depend on modern technology until it’s gone. Even 100 years ago, H G Wells remarked that everyone who pined for the ‘good old days’ of the
Is There Something in the Melbourne Water?
Imagine if, following Kristallnacht, Melbourne councils had started flying the swastika flag, “in solidarity” with Germany. There would have been outrage and condemnation then, and it would be remembered as a shameful anti-Semitic incident today. Yet, just such a shameful show of anti-Semitic hate is happening in Melbourne right now.
Is This Just the Beginning?
New Zealand and Australia, like the rest of the Western world, are fast spiralling into a dark whirlwind of anti-Semitic hate. Mainstream politicians chant slogans calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state in Auckland and are marching with mobs chanting “Gas the Jews!” in Sydney. As The BFD’s
ACT Fails with Its Own Voice
The Voice referendum taught us a great many things — not least that, given the chance, Australians soundly reject identity politics and wokeism. More particularly, though, it showed us just how glaringly out of step with the mainstream that the redoubts of wokeism — the inner-Sydney and Melbourne, Teal-voting, quinoa belts — really
Albo Deeper in the Poll Poo
The first rounds of polls since the Voice referendum defeat are in, and the news is dire for PM Anthony Albanese. Not fatal, perhaps, or at least not yet, but yet another indication that the Labor government is fast bleeding out in its first term. Combined with polling on the
The Great Green Tradition of Hate
The shameful onslaught of open anti-Semitism in Australia and New Zealand shows no sign of abating. While odious Greens Jew-baiter Chloe Swarbrick is finally being called out by some for her repeated invocations to Jewish genocide, just as many in the Israel-deranged media-left are resorting to ever-more threadbare excuses. Meanwhile,
Who’s the Winner from Mass Immigration?
Can we stop pretending now that mass immigration is nothing more than a particularly nasty Ponzi scheme which punishes native citizens to reward the elites? Even the former Reserve Bank governor admitted it: mass immigration kept workers’ wages low while allowing lazy, mendicant big businesses to avoid properly training local
Wait, They Were Hiring on Merit?
In stunning news today, it’s been revealed that Queensland’s public service and academics were supposedly previously hiring on merit. Not that anyone would know it. After all, “merit” seems a strange word to describe the dross that’s bobbed around in the taxpayer-funded toilet bowl of the public
Praising Hamas Butchers as ‘Freedom Fighters’
In 2020, Denmark criminalised foreign funding for mosques. In 2021, it drafted a law requiring that all sermons be translated and submitted to the state (although Anglican churches complained, it was obvious that the law targeted mosques delivering sermons in Arabic). In France, the intelligence service Renseignements Generaux (RG) monitors
It Only Took 17 Months…
In 1941 the Australian Labor Party came into office due to a dirty deal by cross-bench MPs. Its Prime Minister, John Curtin, was completely unsuited to the job (basically a fall-down drunk) – thrown into an international crisis with little idea of what to do, saved from himself by officials, and
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Elite Uni Students
I first wrote it half in jest, but the joke’s been getting more serious every time I repeat it: bulldoze the universities. They’re beyond redemption by now, frankly. That’s not going to happen, of course. Sadly. But prospective students still have the ultimate power: the power of
Swings and Roundabouts, Left and Right
In 1941 the Australian Labor party came into office through a dirty deal by cross-bench MPs. Prime Minister John Curtin was completely unsuited to the job and thrown into an international crisis with little idea of what to do: he was saved from himself by officials and winning a ‘oncer’
Mongo Cops a Serve over Bias
In the US, Jews who traditionally tend to vote for the “progressive left” have had a rude awakening. To their shock, their “progressive” friends are choosing, en masse, to side with the baby-beheaders of Hamas. Whilst I understand their despair at seeing the people they though were on their side