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Election Night Errors-How Did That Happen?
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Hit China Where It Hurts
Nationals senator Matt Canavan is not one of the Coalition’s shrinking violets. The former Resources Minister has been quite prepared to take the stick to rent-seeking energy companies and mining billionaires giving free propaganda leg-ups to Chinese communist bullies. Canavan has more recently pushed the federal government
Orewa Revisited
Don Brash Hobson’s Pledge spokesman As many readers will know, on the last day of November the Stuff media group ran an apology to Maori New Zealanders on the front page of all their newspapers under the heading “We are sorry”. They said that they had been racist, “contributing
Breaking News: Water Is Slightly Damp
Asking if Australia’s taxpayer-funded media is biased is a bit like asking if water is wet. Everyone knows it is, but anyone who says so out loud is immediately hit with a barrage of “Define wet!” type challenges and assertions that, in someone’s distant memory, it was
Things That Make Me Go…
I had a real FFS moment while doing my supermarket shop this week when I came across this… If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
A Horrible Green Party Little Turd
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Green Party’s new intake included, scraping in in last place, a Mexican migrant called Ricardo Menendez March. His credentials for selection appear to be, a. He’s homosexual, something Green Party types view as a higher art form, and, b. His occupation as
How Can We Trust the Science When Scientists Are So Dishonest?
“Trust the science!” is the great conceit of the contemporary left. But – leaving aside that the left are awfully picky about science when it comes to, say, gender ideology – how can we “trust the science” when Australia’s peak science body is so obviously trying to baffle us with bullshit?
Trevor Mallard
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Oh what fun! The media are now in full cry with their standard pack-hunting turning on Mallard with resignation demands over his rape allegation, and the subsequent legal costs met by taxpayers. Now I can’t speak for radio and television news as I
Political ‘Bah Humbug’ from Audrey
Audrey Young, writing in the Weekend Herald, says the biggest risk from the 2020 election result is that Labour’s outright majority could deliver the most boring parliamentary term in recent memory. In my view, that description could just as well apply to their first term where there was inaction
Booking System Debacle So Predictable
ACT Party “It should shock people that a managed isolation booking system was developed that allowed people to book more rooms than they need, leaving multiple rooms empty while New Zealanders are desperate to return home,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “But actually it won’t surprise anyone, so used
Daily News Roundup – 15 December 2020
Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Stuff: Editorial – Speaker faces pointy inquisition from select committee Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Former deputy speaker expected Trevor Mallard’s legal dispute to be costly when agreeing to it Herald: ‘He made a mistake’: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern continues to back Speaker Trevor Mallard Newstalk
Merry Baldmas, Justinda
Information Satire There was one black fly sitting on the wall. No, this isn’t the penultimate verse of a lengthy song beginning ‘There were a thousand black flies sitting on the wall’, but a statement of fact. The wall in question was in the office of Grunt Robbingson, Minister
Does China Really Hold All the Economic Cards?
“Asymmetric warfare” is a well-known concept in international relations – but does it apply in economic warfare as well as military conflict? Asymmetric warfare is war between combatants whose relative military strength, or tactics and strategy differ significantly. Commonly, between professional armies and militias or insurgents. Paradoxically, asymmetric warfare often