They’re Coming for Us, We Need YOUR Help
Have you ever heard of Newsguard? Nah? Neither had we until we received an email from Amina McCauley, an intern at Newsguard, demanding we comply with their demands. They wanted answers and they wanted them now! Who is Newsguard? Well, it seems they are the new censors on the block,
Picking and Choosing Which Monsters to Forgive
The notion of “separating the art from the artist” is a long-running debate. Most of the time, frankly, we should. I first learned this lesson in the ’80s, when I began doing freelance music journalism. I discovered very quickly that some people whose work I admired were utter dickheads. Others,
How to Survive Wild Tasmania
I always wondered why Bear Grylls never filmed an episode of Man vs Wild in Tasmania. Tasmania is, of course, famous for both its wilderness and its cold weather. But few people seem to realise just how much both combine to make much of the island bleak and inhospitable. That’
They Learned Nothing from the past Three Years
Australia’s elite class really learned nothing from the pandemic years – least of all about China. Whether or not China engineered the virus, and whether or not it was deliberately released or leaked, the fact that China’s months of lies and cover-ups meant that the pandemic was far worse
Doing All the “No” Work for Us
Boy, Aborigines sure are a special bunch. Not only did they invent democracy and agriculture, as Bruce Pascoe would have us believe, but they’re also such magical, rarified beings that merely drawing a picture of them is an affront. When the Australian Financial Review published a cartoon that accurately
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Bish, Bosh, Bang = $17K
You may remember during the height of the protest at Parliament in February 2022, a video was circulating of a Police car that ended up wrecked on the bollards at Parliament. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure: The folks at Mana News Live captured that video. Now there
Expeditions to the Edge of Space
Space, as Douglas Adams said, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.” To get some idea of just how big, NASA’s Voyager 1 was launched nearly 50 years ago. It’s now the fastest-moving, most distant object humans have ever
In Search of the Real Jesus
It’s a common claim of porch atheists that ‘Hur, hur, Jesus never existed.’ They claim that there’s no evidence of his existence – which is an obvious lie. The evidence may be scant, but it is all the more remarkable that it even exists. It’s hard for modern
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A Minister Should Be Above Schoolyard Stuff
Look out, New Zealand — you’ve got a contender for the most childishly bitchy, bullying female authoritarian in power. At least our mean girl isn’t PM, though. But, as a senior minister, she’s still far too capable of embarrassing Australia on the world stage. Anthony Albanese’s office
Dutton Goes for the Nuclear Option
Finally, Australia has a political leader with the gumption to say what everyone knows, but no-one is allowed to say: Australia needs nuclear energy. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has ramped up calls for nuclear power in Australia, casting the move as a way to avoid dependence on wind and
Robbing African Children to Save the Planet
In a blow to wannabe smugmobile owners everywhere, the US is considering a measure which would likely call a halt to their manufacture. You see, it seems that even American politicians have a stronger moral conscience than middle-class greenies. A measure has been introduced in the U.S. House to
Even Great Artists Have Bad Days
We all know that modern “art” is mostly crap. As the great critic Robert Hughes said of the ridiculously overrated graffiti artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, “In a saner culture than this one, the 20-year-old Basquiat might have gone off to four years of boot camp in art school, learned some real