A government supported artist, Robert Heinlein wrote, is an incompetent whore. He might have added, an abusive one. Of course, there are some weirdos who pay a great deal of money to be abused by whores, but for most people, handing over money to beggars only to be returned a
The explosion of naked anti-Semitism on the mainstream left might seem sudden and shocking, but it shouldn’t be. More or less open Jew-hating has been simmering on the left for years. As the left has more and more cosied up to Islam, itself endemically anti-Semitic*, it’s only become
Vote in haste, repent at leisure. It’s impossible to say if any in the crowd at the Australian Open who jeered and booed Anthony Albanese actually voted for his government, but 32% of Australians did. The rest of us have to live with the consequences of their foolishness. A
When a PM gets loudly booed by a sporting crowd, it’s not a good sign. It’s not exactly new, either: the Open crowd most recently booed a tennis official for promoting Covid vaccines, while an MCG crowd loudly booed then-PM Tony Abbott. I also remember a huge crowd
Whenever an anti-white race furore erupts — which is almost daily — I have a simple formula for evaluating whatever its central claim is: flip the script. If, instead of “white”, the subject was any other race, would it be considered racist? Then it’s racist, end of story. If it wouldn’
As I wrote in the closing days of last year, the summer parliamentary break couldn’t come faster for Australian PM Anthony Albanese. Fresh from a potentially fatal referendum hiding, Albanese was left fiddling while Australia burned in a bonfire of antisemitism lit by the far-left Greens and Labor’s
Explaining, as The BFD’s Cam likes to say, is losing. The CEO of Australian supermarket titan Woolworths, known across the ditch as Countdown, has been doing an awful lot of explaining since the announcement that it would no longer stock Australia Day merchandise – and losing all the way. When
They don’t call him “Airbus Albo” for nothing. Anthony Albanese’s literal first act as prime minister was to rush off to get sworn in before boarding closed for his first overseas flight as PM. The first of many, many, many more. In his first few months in office,
As I wrote recently, Australia is paying a dire price for Malcolm Fraser’s idiotically evil do-gooding. Despite repeated warnings from his advisers, Fraser was desperate to parade his so-called virtue by importing thousands of ‘refugees’ from the benighted backwaters of Lebanon. Decades later, antisemitism has exploded (not literally… yet;
As I’ve previously observed, New Zealanders are fast learning the truth of Paul Keating’s claim that “when you change the government, you change the country”. For once, the changes seem to be trending in the right direction. The new government is repealing Three Waters, promising to bin the
They say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. In the matter of the Israel-Gaza war, the Australian government is keeping all the worst company. When Xi Xinping is patting you on the shoulder, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself. Anthony
You know, once could be excused as bad luck. Twice as a mistake. Three, though…? Labor Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has so far: overseen the panicked release of over one hundred violent foreign criminals from detention, with at least six re-arrested within weeks for offences including violent sex attacks and offences
Labor’s anti-Semitism problem has become so obvious and so dangerous that even former Labor ministers are having to intervene to drag the party out of the Dark Valley. Since October 7, with violent anti-Semitism becoming bolder and bolder in some sections of Australian society — namely, the far-left and Islam
It’s a rusted-on nostrum of the powerful teachers’ unions that the only reason public schools are failing so miserably is money. Yet, year on year, taxpayers have shoveled more and more billions into public schools — and, year on year, academic results have remained in free-fall. No wonder teachers’ unions
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
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
