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Gee, Thanks, High Court!

Gee, Thanks, High Court!

It’s been a wild couple of weeks for the rule of law in Australia. Police in NSW ignored a Muslim mob chanting “Gas the Jews”, but arrested a Jewish man trying to attend a vigil for the slaughtered of October 7. Then, while Australia’s remaining Holocaust survivors issued

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Age-Inappropriate Sex Ed App Should Be Withdrawn

Age-Inappropriate Sex Ed App Should Be Withdrawn

familyfirst.org.nz Family First is calling for a phone app developed by Canterbury University with explicit content and advice on fingering, hand jobs, anal sex, chest binding and sex toys, to be withdrawn. The app has received terrible reviews from parents on both the App Store and Google Play

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Do You Feel Secure?

David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.org

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The Wong Person for the Job

The Wong Person for the Job

Wow, you guys over the ditch thought you had landed a dud when Nanaia Mahuta finagled the Foreign Minister’s job? BFD readers, I give you Penny Wong. Wong’s plain uselessness at her job is only heightened by the fact that she is supposed to be the brains trust

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Minor Birds Tweet From the Twigs
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Minor Birds Tweet From the Twigs

If ever we needed an example of people too full of their own importance it’s what’s now playing out in the Employment Court. I refer to the case where Siouxsie Wiles of Covid fame is suing her employer, the University of Auckland, for failing to protect her from

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Official Figures up 70% On Last Year

Official Figures up 70% On Last Year

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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On the 50th Anniversary of the DPB

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The Domestic Purposes Benefit has been variously described as a “disaster” (David McLoughlin 1995), an “economic lifeline” (Jane Kelsey 1995) and “an unfortunate experiment” (Muriel Newman 2009). Its effect on family formation can never be definitively ascertained. But the growth of the sole-parent family dependent on welfare

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Exactly What We Voted For
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Exactly What We Voted For

It seems that voting for NZ First and Act is delivering exactly what we voted for – a stiffening of the National Party spine. It also appears that NZ First and Act are working together to add that back bone, if reports in the media are to be believed. Senior New

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Further Down the Tubes in Fantasy Island

November 13th 2023 Remembrance weekend has come and gone. The main demonstration, although riddled with vile posters and banners and a minority (a big minority!) chanting antisemitic phrases, passed mostly without serious incident. There was a last-minute anti-protest protest march which resulted in over one hundred arrests as they approached

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Things Cannot Hold Much Longer

Things Cannot Hold Much Longer

Has there ever been a more useless, nasty bunch of wreckers in Australia’s parliament than the Albanese government and the Greens? The Greens at least have the poor excuse of being genetically programmed to blindly follow violent extremists, from the founding of the Green movement by ex-Nazis, to the

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Whip Me Baby One More Time

Whip Me Baby One More Time

Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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China Changes Its Mind on Family Planning

Peter Jacobsen Peter Jacobsen is a Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org The 20th century was full of attempts to centrally plan population. Scientists like Paul Ehrlich and businessmen like Hugh Moore spent their lives putting direct pressure on politicians and citizens into addressing the looming

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Inquiry May Start Asking Tough Questions

Inquiry May Start Asking Tough Questions

Australian PM Anthony Albanese clearly took to heart the adage, “Never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be”. After all, his so-called “Covid inquiry” was so obviously set up to be a whitewash — for instance, by excluding every action taken by state governments,

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The Left Are in a Buggers Muddle
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The Left Are in a Buggers Muddle

Labour, Greens and the Maori Party all need to shut their traps, cease their maniacal rhetoric and crawl back into their respective caves to work out what they stand for. If they keep standing for what they espoused before the election they will find themselves sitting on the Opposition benches

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Reflections on the 2023 Elections

Reflections on the 2023 Elections

With the 2023 elections done and dusted (almost), it’s now time for everyone to offer their post-election analysis. So here are my observations for this year. Rise of the minor parties: On election night, we saw Labour grieving and National celebrating. But the happiest were the minor parties. ACT

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