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Shooters Rule, OK.

Only eight days after the (terrorist) mass murders in Christchurch, punters voting for the glorious state parliament of New South…

Christchurch murders, Murray-Darling river system, NSW 2019 elections, Shooters Fishers & Farmers Party, The Greens

International Women’s Day

Recently in Hawaii your eagle-eyed correspondent discovered on a wall in a humble abode this ironic (iconic?) reference to a…

Hawaiian dancers, International Women's Day, Last Supper

Rainbow Warrior: Lunch with Spies

John Menadue (Qantas boss at the time) recently posted online a memoir vignette of my brush with infamous French secret…

Alain Mafart, Dominique Prieur, French Polynesia nuclear testing, French spies, Hao atoll, Rainbow Warrior

Sewage Swim

The irony of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs still pumping untreated sewage into the Pacific Ocean is rich indeed! Yup, it’s true:…

Bondi to Watsons Bay swim, Sydney sewage ocean outfalls

Redex 1954 Redux

Peter Carey conjures up a racy ethos and mood in early 1950s suburban Melbourne in his recent novel ‘A Long…

A Long Way Home, Gelignite Jack Murray, John O'Hara, Peter Carey, Phil Murray, Redex Australia Reliability 1954

‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’

A best seller by Israeli historian Yuval Harari, sold 10 million copies, translated into 50 languages, it’s unequivocally a must-read.…

Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, Yuval Harari

Philistines Rule, OK!

So, the ‘iconic’ (obligatory adjective) Sydney Opera House is our biggest billboard, so sayeth PM Scott Morrison aka ScoMo, endorsing…

Alan Jones, cultural cringe, philistinism, ScoMo, Sydney Opera House, The Everest

The New Black

Despite colonial Van Demonian (oh yeah!) attempts to exterminate its aborigines in the 1820-30s, it seems that the extant Tasmanian…

Aboriginal Land Council, Heather Sculthorpe, Michael Mansell, Tasmanian aborigines, Tasmanian Black Wars

PM Loses AAA Rating

Well, it wasn’t rocket surgery for KC to correctly predict the PM’s imminent demise. The political circus act in the…

Abbott, Abetz & Andrews, Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, Mathias Cormann

Shorten Sweet

Since this yummy headline appeared over a Paddy Manning article in The Monthly on 30 July, I’ve been hoping for…

Bill Shorten, drover's dog, Malcom Turnbull, Peter Dutton

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