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Facebook, Google to Be Forced to Pay for News Content
Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-
Environment Group Says No to “Big Australia”
In few policy areas is the yawning dissonance between the elites and ordinary Australians so stark as on immigration. Both major parties, big business and the media just love mass immigration – the more massive the better. Ordinary people, on the other hand, are not so favourable. Opinion poll after poll
BFD’s Believe It or Not
“Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Alice in Wonderland Photo supplied. If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it so that others can discover The BFD
The Liberal Who Stole Christmas
For all their blatherskite about “kindness” and “inclusion”, the “progressive” left are about as kind and inclusive as a Dickensian beadle. But, more than anything, “progressives” most resemble C. S. Lewis’s apocryphal schoolboy’s God: “the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is
A Subject Both Left and Right Can Agree on
There are some universal truths and people on both the left and the right know them to be true. The looming threat of hate speech laws is not only upsetting those on the right, against whom they are most likely to be weaponised, but also scaring those on the left
The Borders Are Tumbling Prime Minister
ACT Party “Jacinda Ardern risks making New Zealand the East Berlin of Australasia, preventing families from seeing their Aussie relatives this Christmas for no good reason,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “News that Western Australia’s border is finally opening to Victoria and New South Wales must surely provide impetus
Daily News Roundup – 10 December 2020
Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Jason Walls (Herald): MPs challenge House Speaker Trevor Mallard over timing of his false rape accusation apology Zane Small (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard comes under fire from National, ACT over ‘rape’ comments Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): MPs call for a vote of no confidence
Not-So-De-Radicalised, After All
With Abdul Nacer Benbrika, the leader of one of Australia’s largest terror cells, nearing the end of his sentence, authorities are facing yet another instance of a growing problem: what to do with jihadis moving back into the general community? The government has cancelled Benbrika’s citizenship as a
Knives Out for Albo
Poor old Albo. Labor leader Anthony Albanese seems like a decent enough bloke, it’s just his politics that are lousy – and he’s trying to lead a party that doesn’t know if it’s beer-drinking Arthur or latte-sipping Martha. Except that Labor’s traditional base have
Chinese Developers Bar Locals From an Australian Island
China’s punishing trade war against Australia, in open retaliation for the Morrison government’s backing of an independent international investigation into the origins of the Wuhan virus, is but one face of the reality of dealing with a bullying communist dictatorship. Just as China openly told New Zealand to