The adage ‘From the mouths of babes comes truth’ is so old and common to every culture that it even appears some 3,000 years ago in the Old Testament. Lying isn’t an instinct: it’s a learned behaviour, created on the horns of honesty’s somewhat uncomfortable dilemma
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Australia has long had a fascination with “Big” tourist attractions: the Big Pineapple, the Big Banana, the Big Merino (possibly popular with Kiwi tourists), the Big Gumboot (and Big Ugg Boots), even a Big Bogan. Australia also has a, not just big, but colossal, naked warrior holding a stick. “Marree
rt.com ‘The History Makers’, a 784-page book about famous historians from the past 2,500 years, has reportedly been canceled in the United States by publisher Random House for not featuring enough black academics. According to the Guardian, which cited unnamed sources in New York, publisher Random House
Henry Ergas The Australian. bassettbrashandhide.com Henry Ergas AO is an economist. is an economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission as well as at a number of economic consulting firms. He writes for The Australian. “To concede nothing to those who would erase the past
Bruce Logan Back in the 1950s (my childhood), before instant news on television, short movies (shorts) were shown in cinemas before the feature film. They varied between news items and documentaries. Often the documentary would finish with a voice-over, “just another step in man’s conquest of nature”. I
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson and former teacher The Government’s New Zealand history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas and requires a radical overhaul. The draft New Zealand history curriculum, which is out for consultation until 31 May, requires students to learn a narrow set of
Eliora Stepping out of line as a Speaker of the House could land you in hot water. It could even get you murdered or executed. Some were imprisoned and even beheaded. No, I am not writing about Iran. Seven Speakers between 1394 and 1535 in Britain were executed, killed in
Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network, the ABC, actually takes Bruce Pascoe’s ludicrous Dark Emu seriously: so seriously that it commissioned a “documentary” series based on it. This is, I might remind BFD readers, a book by an “Aboriginal” (despite having no identifiable Aboriginal ancestors that anyone has
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Hobson’s Pledge Trust The headline said, “Maori party co-leader ejected from parliament after performing haka in racism row”. See Maori Party leader ejected. However, what the Leader of the Opposition said was not reported. To set the record straight, the missing content involved questions from National Party leader
Back in the pre-European times, the local inhabitants of our fair land were fond of telling stories about, among other things, where and whence they came from. This of course is nothing new as all countries have oral traditions. Most of course had written traditions as well but in
Australian celebrity criminal, Mark “Chopper” Read famously said, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn”. Read was referring to the string of “memoirs” (ten in all) he wrote. Read notoriously mixed the astonishing truth, such as his almost comical effort to abduct a Victorian County
Garden of Eden Cheesecake From childhood memories, Mum’s baked cheesecake used to be for my siblings and me a fanciful dream, a cake dream that only came a few times a year. Our mother Hinda used to make the same baked cheesecake for the family four times a year
