Tag Archives: Australia

Foreigners Kill People: Australians to Blame

Posted on December 24, 2025 by JC

On the evening of Sunday the 14th of December, 2025, a father and son named Sajid and Naveed Akram killed fifteen people on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. The people targeted were people celebrating Hanukkah on the beach and most … Continue reading →

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Australia’s Social Media “Ban”

Posted on December 19, 2025 by JC

As of December 10th, Australia introduced it’s social media ban on certain websites for children under 16. I do not have accounts with any of the affected platforms and I had assumed that this effectively requires everyone who uses them … Continue reading →

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Does the Poodle Mince His Words?

Posted on August 20, 2025 by JC

The Insider by Christopher Pyne, Hachette Australia, March 31st, 2021 I have previously reviewed two other works by Australian politicians with one by Cory Bernardi and the other by Tony Abbott. It is not a coincidence that these two as … Continue reading →

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A Farewell Fisking dedicated to the late Keith Windschuttle

Posted on May 15, 2025 by JC

I just learned today that Keith Windschuttle, the writer, historian and former editor of Australia’s Quadrant Magazine died early in April of this year. That I didn’t learn this until over a month later tells me that I don’t pay … Continue reading →

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The Concerns of Australian Foreigners

Posted on March 15, 2025 by JC

The last time I covered the Australian ABC’s execrable Q&A program was almost ten years ago when Peter Hitchens was a guest. Time has not been kind to this show which has changed hosts a number of times but is … Continue reading →

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Beyond a Gaffe

Posted on November 17, 2024 by JC

gaffe (noun) 1. A social or diplomatic blunder Merriam-Webster The other day I noticed an article concerning a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly referring to AI (artificial intelligence) as “A-One” for an entire speech presented to the National Tech … Continue reading →

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Trouble in Babylon

Posted on May 15, 2024 by JC

I have held off writing about the incident in Australia’s Parliament House involving two staffers Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann that became public in 2021. As I have repeatedly stated in other posts, I don’t follow mainstream news so this … Continue reading →

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Unauthorized Anthropology

Posted on March 10, 2024 by JC

Down Among the Wild Men: A narrative journal of fifteen years pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia by John Greenway, Hutchinson of Australia, January 1st, 1973 This is a book I picked up a while ago very shortly … Continue reading →

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No.

Posted on October 8, 2023 by JC

As I write, there is just under a week until the Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia on Saturday the 14th of October. This is the first referendum in over twenty years and the first since I became eligible to … Continue reading →

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Four Notable Australian Games

Posted on July 21, 2023 by JC

Australia isn’t well known for video game development but it has a respectable history in the industry despite being (population wise), quite small. I could point the curious to this list on Wikipedia but it would only cause confusion. Many … Continue reading →

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