Of course they should
American TV journalism legends apologises for stating an opinion: NBC News personality Tom Brokaw, who has returned to regular on-air commentary after a brush with #MeToo issues, has run into more controversy …
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Is it me or is music shit?
It’s day after Australia Day, so Australia’s taxpayer-funded hipster national radio station Triple J has run its Hottest 100 songs of the previous twelve months. They are voted by the …
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Welcome to communist anime porn
While we’re still waiting for a comic book about Lenin and Stalin as superheroes (the original Iron Man), the ChiComms produce some cartoon (in both senses of the word) history: …
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26 January is the least worst past for Indigenous Australians
There is no doubt that Stone Age hunter and gatherer societies, having ruled the roost for hundreds of thousands of years, have had a very lousy few centuries lately. Unfortunately, …
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Brexit? Brentry back into the world will be even harder
Hillary Brit is The Daily Chrenk’s European correspondent. Brexit. What a word. Half noun, half verb. The word inflicts grammatical torture on my ears every time I hear it. But …
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Neuston, we have a problem
How often do we see good intentions not translating into good results? A very interesting new example – as we attempt to clean up the oceans from plastic (good thing …
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40 times unlucky
I honestly don’t know how these things become news stories, even for the tabloids: A student who’s been on 40 “atrocious” dates in nine months has created a brilliant Tinder …
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The 24 hour media rule
The mainstream media – and the social media – are so good at generating instant outrages that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new …
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Can porn tax help build the Wall?
Put this is the “possibly good idea but it will never happen” file: Here’s a genius idea from the state of Arizona for how to end our nation’s border standoff and …
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Davos’ false dichotomies
I’m a globalist, you are a globalist, everyone’s a globalist (the term I don’t particularly rate, since like “neo-conservative” in the last decade, it has become a little more than …
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Cossie is not the messiah
With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe but now probably not-so-much seat of Higgins, people are popping up in the media …
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What will be the classics of today?
Just the other day I was again browsing at Lifeline Bookfest, the twice-yearly largest charity book sale in the world, which takes place – of all places – in Brisbane, …
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X, Y, Z of the civilisational decline
The children are coming home to roost: No longer the new kids on the block, Millennials have moved firmly into their 20s and 30s, and a new generation is coming …
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No meat and two veg
As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible collection of men proudly waving their genitalia around in public …
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Trump versus Ocasio-Cortez is the politics we all deserve
It’s 2019 and we are sadly in that place in history when the political battle of the titans for the body, heart and soul of the Western world takes place …
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Hands off my books, Marie
Who is this monster and what does she want? Book lovers are not happy about the way organization guru Marie Kondo recommends handling books in her new Netflix series “Tidying …
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Is Tim Soutphommasane an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in drag?
At “The Sydney Morning Herald”, the former race discrimination commissioner Tim Sensitive-About-His-Name sings the praises of one of the new leaders of the opposition to “Orange Man Bad”, “She Guevara” Alexandra …
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Refugee, yes, but in Australia? (Updated)
The saga continues: A Saudi teenager has claimed she had been granted asylum in Australia after she fled her “abusive” family and was detained in Bangkok. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun captured …
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I was a female Tinderer
Yesterday, a story caught my eye, which proved that people nowadays are so lazy, they will outsource just about anything to others – including their Tinder experience: Holly Bartter has …
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Italians betray Germany for the third time
May or may not be a good idea, but Italy invoking the term “axis” in regards to any diplomatic arrangement should arguably be avoided: The most powerful politician in Italy …
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