Month: November 2017
This is why I despair
George Brandis has always been a good speech-maker. Yesterday he delivered another good speech, probably one of his better ones, and arguably the one that he will be best remembered …
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Triple J’s terrible xenophobia
Someone else has recently conducted a non-binding plebiscite, which produced a 60 per cent result that divided a nation – well, in this case the tiny part of the nation …
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Ban all fairy tales
Some people read fairy tales to put children to sleep, others to stay woke: A mum has called for the classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty to be banned from her son’s …
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Merry Christmas from ISIS
As blogged earlier in the week, ISIS propaganda channels have threatened to attack Vatican at Christmas time and have fantasised about beheading the Pope. Now there is more: The Islamic State has …
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Time to end the election day circus
A sausage sizzle and a vote is an old Australian tradition. But as a wise man once said, those who like democracy, just like sausages, shouldn’t know too much about …
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Do Not Feed The Animals
Why do people poke a bear with a stick? Because he reacts (definitely a “he”; lady bears are too polite to do so, and you should be a gentlemen too …
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Why the Palaszczuk government deserves to be Pole-axed
Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor government in Queensland is not the worst in Australia – it’s not as offensively far-leftist like the Andrews government in Victoria or as dumb as the carbonophobic …
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