All but trampling on Australian electoral law, the Albanese government has poured vast resources into the “Yes” campaign for the “Voice” referendum. Ever-eager to be on the woke side, so have big business, big sport and the entertainment industry. The “No” campaign has been left to hang. And, really, that’
Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz You can follow Dieuwe de Boer on Telegram or Twitter. It has been well over 3 years since Police raided my family home at dinner time on the hunt for illegal firearms. I had plenty of legal firearms in my arsenal to show them but,
In his initial testimony to the Sofronoff inquiry, the Canberra chief prosecutor alleged that there was a “conspiracy” of interference in the Britanny Higgins rape claims. Shane Drumgold quickly walked back his claim under scrutiny, but the suspicion that there was indeed an extraordinary level of inappropriate interference in the
Debra Wilson Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury Over the last 12 months, multiple young sex offenders have been given home detention for sexual assault. Time and time again, the argument has been that these men were too young to fully understand the consequences of what they were
Is there something in the water in Canberra? Or do idiots just naturally gravitate to the national capital? Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young famously confused TV drama Sea Patrol with a documentary on maritime border protection. Now, the ACT’s chief prosecutor has apparently confused a TV “reconstruction” with CCTV of
aier.org [One Fine Spring Day, Over the Phone…] “Oh, and by the way, your background check says there’s a warrant out for your arrest.” This is not, mind you, the kind of thing one expects to hear updating teaching credentials in a very staid university bureaucracy. Nevertheless, there
Today, in questions everyone already knows the answer to: is water wet? Does fire burn? And, was the ACT chief prosecutor’s pursuit of rape allegations too politically motivated? ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been prone to gibbering about “political conspiracies” supposedly between the Australian Federal Police
righttolife.org.uk A new Canadian attitudes survey has revealed that over a quarter of those surveyed thought that ‘poverty’ and ‘homelessness’ should be made legal reasons for allowing euthanasia in Canada. The survey of a thousand adults in Canada, conducted last month, found strong support for assisted suicide and
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com National Citizens Inquiry: A Private Tribunal of Conscience The world is well overdue for explanation and restitution of grievous harms perpetrated in the name of the global pandemic response. With continued lies and cover-ups by their governments, the people are organising
Katherine Drabiak mercatornet.com Katherine Drabiak JD is an Associate Professor of health law, public health law and medical ethics in the Colleges of Public Health and Medicine at the University of South Florida in the United States. Recently, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a report advocating for
In Dictator Dan’s Victoria, the thoroughly-corrupted police force set out to “Get Pell” (their own words) long before a single complaint had ever been made against the late Cardinal. Then they insisted on proceeding with a brief of evidence Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions twice rejected. The result
Day two of the Sofronoff inquiry into the handling of the Brittany Higgins rape accusations, and the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions is keen to defend himself after a shocking first day. As BFD readers may recall, the first day of hearings saw the DPP accused of effectively trying to
The fallout from the Brittany Higgins scandal continues to rain down. The ACT Director of Prosecutions may have called a halt to criminal proceedings against the accused — but now the DPP is finding himself the accused in an inquiry into the whole legal fracas. Canberra DPP Shane Drumgold, who wanted
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Dáil Eireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, has just passed the most radical hate speech law in the history of the Irish State, a law so
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A review into the abortion law in Ireland, undertaken by academics, many of whom have a history of abortion campaigning, has recommended that doctors be able to perform abortions up to birth without the threat of prosecution and that the three-day waiting period
newsbusters.org The world of professional writing is facing new challenges in the age of artificial intelligence and chatbots, challenges that are beginning to show up in publishing contracts. At question is whether an author or screenwriter should be free to submit AI-generated material as their own and, if so,
