George Calombaris’ restaurant empire has collapsed, is now in administration and his twelve restaurants are up for sale. Because of this collapse, about 400 staff are now out of work1….
It might seem bonkers that some of the worst climate-change deniers seem committed to blaming "greenies" for the holocaust on the eastern seaboard. But it makes a sick kind of sense. Somebody has to take the blame and they’ll be damned, literally, if it has to be them. So in a twist, they blame those who have been trying to save us from hellfire.
A colleague of mine posted a meme on Facebook concerning new postage stamps being issued to celebrate Brexit, the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU). There…
Everybody with even a passing familiarity with the current news either on free-to-air television, radio or newspapers will have realised that former deputy leader of the parliamentary National Party, Bridget…
I was in the middle of writing a piece about the sports rorts disgrace, when this, from Catherine Marriot came across my Twitter feed: “The Nationals have a real opportunity…
Everybody with even a limited intelligence knows Donald Trump lies, and that his lying is almost beyond comparison and that it is pathological1,2,3. Australia has had its political liars too,…
If Mr. Morrison’s government genuinely believed the science, it would immediately put a price on carbon, declare a moratorium on all new fossil fuel projects and transfer the fossil fuel subsidies to the renewables industries. It would go to the next round of global climate talks in Glasgow in November allied with other nations on the front line of this crisis and argue for quicker and deeper cuts to carbon emissions around the world. Anything less is to collaborate in the destruction of a country.
But the government is intent on doing nothing.
And to the names of those historic betrayers of their people — Vidkun Quisling, Benedict Arnold, Mir Jafar — perhaps one day will be added that of Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia who, when faced with the historic tragedy of his country’s destruction, dissembled, enabled, subsidised and oversaw omnicide, until all was ash and even the future was no more.
In the UK, the Football Association (FA) runs an elimination competition called the FA Cup and in the 1988-1989 competition, Liverpool played Nottingham Forest in a semi-final at a neutral…