Tag Archives: Australia

Tolerating the Intolerable

It should hardly need pointing out that our leaders are not benevolent and kind people who want the best for us. They definitely want us to believe this but it pretty obviously isn’t the case. They can be quite ruthless … Continue reading

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Australia Belongs to Us

The above video was produced by the Australia Day Council which appears to be a government funded organisation. The Federal Government in Australia has apparently been led by “conservatives” since 2013 and yet the above video was produced with them … Continue reading

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Pauline Hanson was right

Back in 1996, I was in middle school and as is to be expected, not well-informed where politics and society were concerned. John Howard was the Prime Minister and he would remain so until 2007. Regardless of your politics, he … Continue reading

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Ranking Australia’s Prime Ministers in the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy

This is my attempt to rank the last seven male Prime Ministers of Australia according to the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy (SSH). I have briefly referred to the SSH before here but an excellent overview can be found in the video I … Continue reading

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Captain Catholic or Captain Compromise?

Battlelines by Tony Abbott Melbourne University Press, June 1st, 2013 (first published in 2009) Not being good at being relevant, I decided not only to read but also review this book a decade after it was first published. This is … Continue reading

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Coming Home

It has been almost a year since I returned to live in Australia after close to ten years abroad. In coming back to Australia I find myself feeling somewhat like Odysseus arriving home after his eventful journey from Troy. I … Continue reading

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Australia & Culture

Quite a while ago I read an article by James Valentine belittling the idea of “Australian values”, I can’t remember whether I read it in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age or The Australian but it was probably the latter … Continue reading

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Politics & History

Something I became very interested in during my time at university was something that at that time was known as the “History Wars” in Australia. This is a name given to something really going on all over the West and … Continue reading

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Political Journalism is Stupid

It really is. And I really want to put emphasis on stupid. It is so stupid that I can’t understand why I was, and many intelligent people are, so caught up with it. When Paul Keating was Treasurer, there was … Continue reading

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Voting & Skin in the Game

As I wrote last week, I’ve become increasingly skeptical of democracy over the last few years. That’s not to say I’m against it or would prefer another system, just that my thoughts on the question are increasingly outside the box … Continue reading

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