Malcolm Turnbull seems to have read the last rites to the idiotic plebiscite1 for same-sex marriage, and the even more ludicrous idea of a postal plebiscite2. Either of these would…
Many commentators made the mistake of assuming what is going on in the world today (with Trump, Brexit, Hanson, Wilders, Le Pen etc.) is a swing to the right because…
I just happened to watch part of federal opposition leader Bill Shorten’s speech to the New South Wales Labor Party Conference, held at the Sydney Town Hall this weekend1. This…
Senator Malcolm Roberts has issued a statutory declaration stating that he had “analysed if he was a British citizen by decent [sic] from my father, who was born in Wales,…
The Federal Government’s Department of Communications has refused to release details about a $30 million gift to Foxtel, ostensibly to support underrepresented sports. These sports include women’s sports, niche sports…
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has used the nasty little phrase ‘politics of envy’1 used by the nasty little former Prime Minister John Howard to attempt to keep the plebs under…
The slow-witted Matthew Canavan, just recently the subject of an essay here for one of his idiotic tweets1, has now been found to have dual citizenship, the other one being…
I was bullied at high school by three older boys, whose surnames were Hardman, Smith and Childs. It was fairly mild and never, that I can recall, went beyond verbal…