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AFL’s own goal at Tiananmen Stadium

June 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If you need any further evidence that time indeed flies, on Tuesday we will remember the 30th anniversary of the Communist Party of China sending tanks against its own people …

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“ALP: Thought Crimes Unit” – what to expect in season 7

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Big changes are in store for the ACTU/ABC/Fairfax’s hit TV drama “ALP: Thought Crimes Unit”. The last season, already thought by the viewers to have been the most disappointing so …

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The Libs have a problem with the trendy vote too

May 29, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It has been said for the past decade or two that the parliamentary Labour Party is finding it increasingly difficult to hold together the two major poles of its base: …

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Not our government

May 22, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s pretty much a hard political law that when the right loses an election they tend to blame themselves (“it was the infighting – the bloody moderates/conservatives [delete as appropriate] …

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The autumn of our minor discontent: or 24 thoughts about the election

May 19, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

(Cover pic idea shamelessly stolen from Iowahawk, who captions it “Australian election summary”) 1. I was wrong about this election. I’m somewhat comforted by knowing that so was everyone else. …

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Bob was all our uncle

May 16, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is rather melancholy that Bob Hawke died only two days before most likely seeing his beloved Labor Party returning to power after six years in opposition. The consolation is …

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iran5
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Just like Lent, only compulsory

May 14, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s good to live in societies where religion is a private matter, isn’t? Though as a substitute, a whole range of secular ideas about everything from gender to the environment …

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Depressing them softly

May 10, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …

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My economic revelation

May 6, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Unlike some people, I’ve never had a religious experience, that moment of staggering clarity when one seems to connect with a higher power or become as one with the universe. …

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In defense – and offense – of Jacinda Ardern

April 26, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In the aftermath of the multiple terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka by Islamists targeting Christians and tourists, many a meme on social media attacked the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda …

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Everything I don’t like is far-right

April 23, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It was not Orwell’s original idea that those who control the language control the society and determine its nature. In any case, the left hardly ever needed inspiration from critics …

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luckycountry
Politics

The Twice Lucky Country

April 9, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The other day I was having a coffee with an old friend, and we pondered, among many other, usually more cheerful topics, about the state of politics today. “Isn’t it …

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Tolerating your freedoms

March 24, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One perhaps should not make too much out of remarks of one public official, no matter how senior – and yet, I have this nagging feeling that what he is …

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Gals Against Humanity

March 20, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As part of the usual spray directed at the conservative half of Australia, “refugee, racial justice, Palestine campaigner” Sarah Saleh observes about Tony Abbott His existence altogether is offensive. “There is a …

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

March 19, 2019March 20, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

(The title with apologies to Milan Kundera who is probably spinning in his grave, seeing how the Western left has been culturally appropriating the (former) Eastern left’s strategies and tactics.) …

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Never let a crisis go to waste

March 17, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One of the consequences of the terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques will be an reinvigorated effort by the left to silence and censor speech and debate on topics they consider …

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The evil that men do

March 15, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Terrible news from Christchurch in New Zealand, with (at this moment) 49 Muslim worshipers at Friday prayers in two mosques gunned down in a well organised terrorist attack that was …

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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?

March 14, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …

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Australia’s Hindenburg

March 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The ex-PM Malcolm Turnbull is Australia’s Hindenburg. No, not the Zeppelin air ship whose fiery destruction provided one of the most iconic images of the intrawar years – though some …

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ABC Barbie

March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Congratulations to Australian living legend Ita Buttrose (I only just realised what an otherwise unfortunate surname that is – I can only hope that it’s not, and will never be, …

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