Ten things we should be talking about instead of Same Sex Marriage
It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that the public debate in Australia remains exactly in the same …
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It’s official: everyone hates political correctness
News.com.au ran a story this morning under the headline “Senior Australians say political correctness is ruining society”, based on recent research on manners commissioned by an insurance agency: Attention, Gen …
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Let’s get rid of lots of people so that lots of people won’t die
Needless to say, most of the people who care about the environment are well-meaning and decent (agree or disagree about specific issues), but there is an increasingly vocal and increasingly …
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Nothing budget about the Budget
Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich our vocabulary. We are witnessing at the moment another interesting …
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Never trust anyone under 30
When they were singing about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, they didn’t mean the time of endless leaks. But that’s what they’re getting. Yesterday, following the “Vault 7” …
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Check your hot female privilege
Forget white privilege. Or male privilege. Or white male privilege, which presumably trumps them all (no pun intended), including black male privilege and white female privilege. We need to talk …
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The first rule of Whine Club is…
The first rule of Whine Club is: you constantly talk about Whine Club. You talk about it, you Facebook it, tweet it, Snapchat it, YouTube it, write about it, email …
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FFS, just grow up
You know what really bothers me about all the most outlandish anti-Trump hysteria? That the most ridiculous examples of it take place on college and university campuses. The people involved …
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George W Bush murdered more people than Stalin, or “(old) children say the darnest things”
One third of the Millennials think that George W Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin. Over a third have a favourable impression of Karl Marx and Che Guevara. But …
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Men will be boys
According to French historian Philippe Aries in his 1960 classic “Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Lifeâ€, childhood was invented by Renaissance Europeans*. The mid-20th century Americans in …
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The terrible truth about staffers
Poor Jack Walker, by now probably an ex-adviser to Christopher Pyne. Not only has he and his eight Sydney mates spent the past four days in the shadow of a …
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Feminism – helping ugly chicks get laid since 1970
Girl meets boy online. Boy says no. Girl’s sister uses social media to shame the boy. Boy gets called a “creepâ€, an “asshole†and an “actual piece of shitâ€. The …
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The boy who cried fascism
By labelling every mainstream conservative extremist, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, and probably a fascist, the left has devalued these descriptions to such an extent that it’s completely unprepared to face …
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Eat the old (updated)
No issue recently has split the generations more – and more acrimoniously – than Brexit. Whether 66 per cent of young Brits voted to “Remainâ€, as polling suggested, or maybe …
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The Daily Outrage
You know what, Labor? Screw you. Here I was complaining on Facebook earlier that I can’t seem to get outraged by anything today. Then I went shopping and on the …
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Does socialism work? Asking for a friend
Young kids come to me on the street these days and ask: “Hey, Arthur, you were born and grew up in a communist country, didn’t you? So tell us, does …
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