Campbell Markham mercatornet.com Campbell Markham lives in Hobart, Tasmania, and has been a Presbyterian pastor for over 20 years. He is married to Amanda-Sue, with grownup children, and teaches a weekly online theology class. A Tasmanian man is being persecuted over his views on ‘conversion therapy. In June,
Recently The BFD published an article in three parts by James Farmer QC titled “Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against”. The following is my reply. I have consistently believed that cannabis is a harmful substance and that people who use it for “recreational purposes” would be more sensible to
Twitter may be about to join a very exclusive club: leftist oligarchs hit with multimillion-dollar lawsuits by Lin Wood. Wood is the lawyer who helped “Covington Kid” Nick Sandmann win undisclosed settlements – believe to be as much as several hundred million – from CNN and the Washington Post. At the
You’ve got to hand it to Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, he’s really putting his state on the global map – for the wrong reasons. I’ve reported for months that Victoria’s state bureaucracy, especially its police, have gotten rolling drunk on the unelected power they’ve seized using
Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalise state-sanctioned suicide – or, to use the preferred bland euphemism, “Voluntary Assisted Dying” – last year. It’s also taking its first steps on the slippery slope that death-fanciers insist doesn’t exist. More than 300 people have applied to end
West Australia’s McGowan Labor government may be patting themselves on the back for apparently heading off Big, Bad Clive Palmer at the legislative pass on one front, but they can’t legislate away the Constitution. Palmer may have lost his bid for compensation over his Balmoral South iron ore
Australia’s state governments haven’t exactly been covering themselves in glory over the last six months. There was the NSW government’s incompetent handling of the Ruby Princess cruise ship, which unleashed a wave of infections across Australia. Victoria has been a masterclass in failure, from its execrable hounding
We used to have a saying in the Police when you received an order that didn’t make any sense, “There’s no reason for it, it’s just Police policy.” It seemed to be a catch-all for all the non-sensical decisions we would be subject to. And
righttolife.org.uk Billboards across New Zealand urging Kiwis to question whether the introduction of assisted suicide legislation would be safe have been vandalised by activists. A major advertising campaign, launched by grassroots campaign group VoteSafe.nz, has seen hundreds of signs put up across the country in prominent and
Talk of private property rights is usually the stuff of law journals and academics and receives little public attention. Like many things in life, it is only when something is taken away that you really come to appreciate it. New Zealand has seen a worrying erosion of private property rights
I use public transport. I won’t bore you with the details as I am not a Green Party supporter or a pink-haired urban liberal harbouring a contagious social agenda – which is, in fact, the same thing. There are not that many pink-haired urban liberals on public transport.
As I recently wrote, the horrorshow of the Victorian government’s hotel quarantine program may well blow up in premier Daniel Andrews’ face in a very personal way. The Victorian stands to be prosecuted under the draconian “industrial manslaughter” laws that Andrews himself enacted at the behest of his union
On 2 August I wrote an article for the BFD called, ‘Kiwis do not want a jab’. About 30% of New Zealanders said they would not want a COVID-19 vaccination. I also heard from friends who would not accept one either. I wrote in my guest post … New Zealand
Back on the 2nd of May last year, we heard from The BFD correspondent WH about New Zealand’s major media outlets sudden desire to hide the truth from their readers, watchers and listeners when it came to reporting on the Christchurch murders carried out by Brenton Tarrant. It seemed
Maria O’Sullivan Monash University Prime Minister Scott Morrison took many people by surprise this week when he said a COVID-19 vaccine would be “as mandatory as you could possibly make it”. Although he later backtracked on the use of the word “mandatory”, he made clear the government is
It’s an understatement to say that I’m no fan of blowhard billionaire Clive Palmer. Palmer is a braggadocious, shonky used-car salesman incarnate as a resource billionaire. And he foisted Jacqui Lambie on we long-suffering Tasmanians. That said, the West Australian government’s treatment of Palmer is
