Katherine Kirkwood Queensland University of Technology After 35 years in Australia, the last plates of cheese toast will soon be served at Sizzler’s nine remaining outlets across Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. The family-friendly restaurant, famous for the all-you-can-eat salad bar and cheesy TV ads, was once
So-called “economic nationalism” – the desire of local consumers to purchase locally made goods and push back against the “offshoring” ways of globalism – has been a bubbling undercurrent in Australian politics for years. The Wuhan plague has brought it to the surface. Surveys are showing that Australians are keen to ditch
With a cheerleading media failing to ever hold our hopeless government to account it pays to read international media to get some critical reporting on serious matters. Our media are too focused on what Clarke Gayford tweeted or who Jacinda Ardern has hugged lately. Meanwhile, our government is splurging out
Tiger Tiger is a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. Business – the silent crisis. There is an unacknowledged crisis looming in New Zealand business courtesy of our politician imposed, and woke media and
ACT Party “There’s nothing sadder than someone who tries being knocked back by others’ needless restrictions, as is the case with Brett Heap,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Brett Heap is a pioneer of the horticulture industry. His courgettes are rotting on the ground because he can’t get
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Again the effects of welfarism are manifested in waste and frustration. New Zealand is heading into peak harvest season and there aren’t enough workers to get fruit off trees or vegetables from the ground. “This could be my last crop,” says Heap, who grows
Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan Deakin University Yoko Ono once noted: “people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them”. Witches were maligned for centuries because of their perceived dark power and influence — but could this fear have stemmed from their commercial success? Witches have been savvy business women
Tasmania is famous for producing some of the world’s best seafood, wine and lamb. Not that Tasmanians ever get much chance of enjoying the bounty of their own state: even if we’re prepared to pay through the nose for certain local produce, we end up getting the leavings
ACT Party “Labour’s so-called ‘Fair Pay’ Agreements will take industrial relations back to the 1970s”, says ACT’s Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Chris Baillie. New Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood said this morning that Labour will press ahead will FPAs. “Labour claims FPAs will help poor
31st October 2020 I am sitting here waiting for the announcement of a new lockdown in England. It was scheduled for 4pm, then deferred to 5pm, then sometime after 5pm and then 6.30pm. As the contents of the speech due to be made by the Prime Minister have been
Once upon a time, all customers expected from Yellow was their advertising expertise. A bemused ex Yellow customer sent us this screenshot from Yellow’s latest newsletter to their customers. If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
There are quite a few people on this site who do not like Damien Grant. Personally, I only came to hear of him relatively recently, probably over his refusal to cease setting off fireworks at his rural Auckland home. That has angered some of his neighbors, and given him a
