The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will blow a cool $500 million to expand again over the next nine years.…
‘Sovietistan’
‘A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan’ The book by Erika Fatland was recently translated into English from…
Political Palsy
The Australian body politic (that includes us) is paralysed on ‘climate action’, thanks to a failed political class and our…
Middle East Morass
Australia’s historical predilection for joining in every imperial military adventure with our ‘traditional’ allies continues unabated today. With another warship…
Albert Camus (et moi)
The great French writer died sixty years ago last Saturday in a car crash. He was 46 years old and…
Courbet & Pei-Ming
OK you mob, time to refresh our spirits with a cultcha pause, after all the polemical pondering and ongoing scorching…
Barnaby Blather & Bullshit
He is too much, and beyond the pale, so no beating around the bush (so to speak). Barnaby Joyce, the…
Battered Mammon
A plague of non-domestic violence has broken out in the country’s shopping malls! According to mainstream media, retailers are getting…
‘Smoke Gets in Your Lungs’
In the song it gets in your eyes, but long term the lung thing is not good for our health! …
Beyond Brexit – Disunited Kingdom
The British (or is that English?) people have again voted themselves out of Europe. To help understand their mass psychology,…