righttolife.org.uk China claims the collapse in population growth of the Uyghur community in Xinjiang is due to the “eradication of religious extremism” and not the result of extensively documented forced abortions and sterilisations. On Thursday 8th January, the state-run publication, China Daily, claimed that: “Decreases in the birth
Hilary Marland University of Warwick Catherine Cox University College Dublin Mad, bad, or dangerous to know? How can we understand the criminal mind and the commission of crimes? Are these prompted by wickedness and the desire for gain or revenge, or by the workings of a disordered mind? Such dilemmas
Recently I read a news item regarding the 2020 road toll here in Victoria. The numbers seemed very low to me. In Victoria, we had 213 deaths last year which some would say was low because of coronavirus restrictions. New Zealand had a lockdown as well, yet almost every time
It’s important to remember, sometimes, just how easily appearances can be deceiving. So when a man says he wants to kill a policeman and, while carrying out that attempt, repeatedly yells “Allahu Akbar”, it’s important to note, at Stuff anyway, that the man is clearly not a Muslim.
On 8th January The BFD ran a story entitled “NZ Police Launch Snitch Unit” The writer asserts that we should be “very concerned” about the police setting up a unit to monitor social media. It appears this police action would be “an impingement on our privacy”. What privacy would that
What’s a billion or so between amicis, eh? As previously reported by The BFD, startling revelations late last year showed that millions of dollars were secretly transferred to a company in Melbourne. The money was alleged to have been used to help secure the false conviction of Cardinal George
‘Trust us, we know what we’re doing’ is, sadly, not a motto that sits comfortably in the perception of NZ Police by the general public; think more, ‘Heavy-handedness is our thing’. So when the NZ Herald announced front-page on the 29th of December that police had set up a
ACT Party “The Government must take the recent surge in gang violence seriously and should start by stripping gang members of firearms licences,” says ACT’s Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Over the past few years, the number of gang members has increased by a third, and there’s
Yet another follower of the Religion of Peace has gone on yet another murderous rampage in Australia, this time in Brisbane. Only the quick actions of police prevented more deaths. An accused ISIS supporter is suspected to have snapped and murdered an elderly couple in their Brisbane home, before being
An interesting article popped up in the local Queenstown weekly paper this week. Titled “Drug Warnings“, I expected to read about people getting busted for selling drugs in the town and I wasn’t disappointed. Apparently a major bust has gone down which targeted bad guys from Whangarei and Queenstown,
In an effort to stop having to incarcerate criminals only to have them released under this Government’s criminal friendly law and order policies, the Police have now abandoned the catch part of their catch and release strategy. Police will no longer pursue drivers who are speeding, acting suspiciously or
Michael Cook mercatornet.com In the wake of Cardinal George Pell’s successful appeal to the High Court of Australia, and his release from jail after 404 days, several books purporting to be “investigative journalism” have appeared about this astonishing miscarriage of justice. All of them have been hostile towards
Cardinal George Pell has broken his long silence since his exoneration by a unanimous vote of Australia’s highest court. The Cardinal confirms what was obvious all along to anyone not blinded by prejudice: he was framed. Of course, the list of figures and institutions lined up against Pell was
The “MeToo” movement has been dealt yet another blow, with yet another acquittal of a high-profile celebrity accused of predatory behaviour. In fact, contrary to the mantra of “believe victims”, very few MeToo accusations have passed the test of a court of law. Craig McLachlan has been found not guilty
Yet more of the chickens of corruption are coming home to roost in Victoria, with the first high-profile acquittal following from the “Lawyer X” scandal. Jailed big wig Tony Mokbel has had his conviction quashed over a cocaine importation which led him to skip the country during his trial. Mokbel
There was a piece of spray-painted graffiti I used to pass by regularly in Wellington, in the car park of a building on Tory St. It was a play on the words of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and proclaimed “We will never be free until the last politician is
