brownstone.org Two years ago, major American cities were segregated by vaccine status. Mask mandates delineated safe and unsafe. Signs told us to be separate from each other. We couldn’t even encounter each other during shopping thanks to one-way grocery aisles. We were not allowed to visit families
lens.monash.edu If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week. Barry Humphries breathed life into Australia’s “slanguage” – but it was often an imagined life. When it comes to their lexicon, Australians take pride in skirting the thin line between reality, romanticisation and
As Nick Cave has written, today’s coronation of King Charles III “will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest”. Cave meant the latter entirely as high praise. The “strangeness” of rituals
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve never met him but I have enormous admiration for Bruce Moon, a man with impressive academic credentials (Google him and see). Now in his 90s, plainly outraged by the blatant lying about the Treaty, he is devoting his remaining years to fighting this
mises.org In March 2009, in the midst of recession, then Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner was pressed to respond on the question of whether or not another currency – possibly the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)—might displace the US dollar as the dominant global reserve currency. Geithner responded that
mercatornet.com Reconceiving of marriage in terms of “self-expression” has been a terrible, value-laden mistake, betraying the pretensions to liberal neutrality. Plural marriage is inferior for raising children and for maintaining marital harmony; but most of all, in today’s climate, it creates a culture dedicated to adult
One of the more odious outrages of the rainbow groomers is their sleazy determination to appropriate the religious beliefs of indigenous cultures to their creepy agenda. When the cocks-in-frocks co-opt so-called “two-spirit” beliefs which were present in some Native American tribes, they’re committing a
We have come to the end of yet another fantastic book giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of Roger Childs’ new book New Zealand’s History Curriculum – Education or Indoctrination? Today we are announcing the three lucky BFD members who won a book. We used an online
By Cameron Slater ( *republished) I made this video some time ago for Skippy, my father-in-law. Some of the photos in the video were taken by him at Nui Dat. He was an Aussie serving with the NZ Army…he trained at Puckapunyal, Canungra and Singleton…many of the
Wyn Fountain served as a Welfare Officer in the Middle East and Europe and was away for over four years. Later he ran a very successful business in New Zealand and, with wife Shirley, grew a great family. At 90 years old (in this clip) he brought history alive.
My father-in-law Skippy fought in the Battle of Long Tan. This is the documentary made by Martin Walsh of that battle.
In 2015 Dad and I were at the dawn ceremony at ANZAC Cove and then the service at Chunuk Bair. I carried the medals of my great-grandfather Harry Crozier with me. It was 100 years since ANZAC troops set foot on the Gallipoli peninsula in that ill-fated campaign.
