So the Liberal Party put up a tradie ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fse0sm05V-8 The ad was mercilessly ridiculed on the social media, in part because the tradie was supposedly a fake tradie. Though he …
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After every mass shooting and/or terrorist attack there comes the inevitable finger-pointing, blame-shifting, point-scoring and politicising. Understandably, no one wants to get tarred by association, however vague and tenuous, with …
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Two days from now, Great Britain will decide whether it wants in or out. Listening to the Remain supporters one gets the impression that should Brexit get up, Britain will …
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I love the Gosford Anglican Church. It’s the church I would be attending if I wasn’t interested in the actual religion but my favourite pieties were political. Which is why …
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I have been around politics for some 22 years and in my time I’ve heard some pretty disgusting sentiments being expressed by our elected representatives, but this observation from our …
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Remember when politicians were just politicians and not semi-divine beings? Ah, the good old days. Roughly pre-2008. So technically not all that long ago, yet today, in June 2016, they …
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Days on, the Orlando tragedy continues to be the Rorschach test of stupid (for the first installment click here). 1.Former (unrepentant) Weather Underground terrorist and Barack Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers: …
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That pretty much sums it all up, I think. Missed anything? Tell me in the comments.
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(Damn it, tabloids; beat that headline!) Every day I miss Boris Johnson more and more. The new Mayor of London, Labour’s Sadiq Khan, having managed to solve all the other …
Read More Considering how many people there are in the world and the ubiquity of the social media, it’s actually a miracle there have been so few. 1.Chase Strangio, a Staff Attorney …
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Two (Update: three) quick thoughts about Orlando: 1) Can we please stop branding anyone who might have some issues with same-sex marriage or transgender bathroom use a homophobe? It detracts …
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Earlier today, Labor have released a 32-page booklet called “10 Year Plan for Australia’s Economyâ€, probably because “5 Year Plan for Australia’s Economy†is no longer considered a thing on …
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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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There is one thing I don’t like about Trump. Actually, there are a few; his policies, such as they are, which for most part don’t resemble the conservative and classical …
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How the hell, in a nation of 320 million, did we end up with these four anti-superhero losers as the last ones standing in the 2016 election contest? …
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This election campaign is only going to get more serious the closer to November we get. Which means Trump will become even more unbearable, which means you will feel obliged …
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A first date tonight. She likes Vietnamese. Not too many options in Brisbane inner north. Her: “What’s that Vietnamese place that was named after some dictator that attracted all the …
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Take a look around the world and it puts everything in perspective; suddenly, all the huge “controversies†at home turn from mountains into molehills and all the activists seem less …
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I love the sound of leftie heads exploding from dissonance. This is going to generate a few pops: The Dalai Lama, who has himself lived in exile for over half …
Read More Europe should have really just stuck to being a common market. Don’t take me wrong, I do understand and have some sympathy with the Pan-European sentiment of the founding fathers …
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