Capitalism, big and small
Lung Wo Road and Connaught Road Central reach for the sky. The ground erupts here with steel and glass and stone buildings that tower 20, 40, 60 storeys over the …
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(Non-censored) postcard from Hong Kong
As you drive on the highway from the airport to Hong Kong, about half way you pass by massive concrete pylons of what, when finished, will be the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau …
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On the road again…
…just can’t wait to get on the road again, as the old song goes. Well, kind of, tampered as my travel desires are by the chronic fatigue deciding to play …
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Turnbull, gone in 18 months
With our pollies going back to Canberra this week for the first time since the election, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari is shit-stirring, which I guess it’s one thing he’s good …
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The sun revolves around Colin Kaepernick
I’m not a sports fan, but I don’t mind if you do. I find sportspeople talking about sport to be one of the most tedious and useless things under the …
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Council cancels Australia Day fireworks, creates metaphorical fireworks
A Western Australian city council goes full Invasion Day: The council at Fremantle, about 30 minutes from Perth, decided on Wednesday night to cancel its annual fireworks display next year …
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Walls, amnesties, and an immigration policy that makes sense
So far at The Daily Chrenk I have avoided getting involved in the highly contentious and bitter immigration debate in the United States, which has now become the centre-piece of …
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In her shoes, or some thoughts about welfare
A short “putting human face to a political debate†article appeared in “The Australian†this morning that bears quoting almost in full: Melbourne mother of eight Helen Liumaihetau thinks Scott …
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Miss Trans Jihad 2016
It is a truth universally acknowledged that whatever you think of the Islamic female attire, it is certainly voluminous and concealing enough to provide for anonymity or disguise. It is …
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Happy Ribbentrop-Molotov, mother******s!
Yesterday we remembered the 77th anniversary of the most cynical political event of the 20th century, the pact between Hitler and Stalin, which partitioned the Eastern Europe and greenlit the …
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God is greatest in Queensland too (UPDATED)
25 Aug, 9:32am: An obsession gone really wrong? 10:19pm: But of course: The Islamic Council of Queensland’s Ali Kadri was critical of the speculation so early on that the alleged …
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The Outrage Olympics
Whenever a news story contains words “sparked outrage on social media†I know with about 98% certainty that it will turn out to be absolute bullshit. Over the past decade …
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LinkedIn – better than Tinder?
I’ve always considered LinkedIn to be Facebook for boring people. I signed up to it yonks ago, because I guess I was a professional too (if you consider a political …
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Was Jesus a psychopath?
Yes, according to Oxford University psychologist, Dr Kevin Dutton, who applied a standard measure of psychopathic traits, the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (Revised), to various historical figures – as well as …
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The tragedy of Indigenous disadvantage, continued
It might well be Chrenkoff’s First Law of Welfare that all the poverty- and disadvantage-reducing government programs are most successful at reducing poverty and disadvantage amongst middle class bureaucrats and …
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Suffer little children, and women
The bomber who detonated at the Kurdish wedding in southern Turkey, killing 54, mostly women and children, might or might not have been a young teenager – The Turkish authorities …
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The five times when Black Lives Don’t Matter
It goes without saying that every time a police officer shoots a suspect, the case should be properly investigated, and in those cases where the shooting was not justified, the …
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The October that never ends
Books that deserve the epitaph “masterpiece†come few and far between. “A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924†by a British historian Orlando Figes deserves it without a doubt. I’m …
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It’s time for a Kurdish state
It is perhaps the greatest travesty of the Middle Eastern geo-politics, if not the international geo-politics, that the Kurds don’t have their own state. It is a travesty because apart …
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The return of dezinformatsiya
The general rule of thumb is that, contrary to what folk wisdom might have taught you, you not only look the Russian gift horse in a mouth, but you also …
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