Victoria – gold standards in gaslighting
Victoria, according to all the medical experts now running the show, exhibits the gold standard in hotel quarantine and contact…
Ricky Gervais wakes the woke
Ricky Gervais, putative hero of the common man, was at his acerbic best at the Golden Globes, laying down a…
Extinction Rebellion: an army of Unabombers
Most Australians are pretty sympathetic to the whole protesting thing. After all, we’re a functioning democracy with largely robust protections…
Why a treaty is no answer
Australia, as with so many other Commonwealth nations settled by colonial force, has a difficult relationship with its Indigenous peoples.…
John Setka and the Greens: a match made in heaven
The Greens, as a political brand of sorts, have made some remarkable headway towards establishing their spotless moral credentials over…
Steve Bannon is right: this election is boring
A few weeks out from the federal election is the perfect time to recognise a fundamental truth of contemporary Australian…
The Christchurch chaos exercise
Scissor statements are weird. They’re something that most people can’t instantly define, yet they are an inextricable element of today’s…
What’s the point of banning Milo?
Milo Yiannopoulos, alleged far-right demagogue, has now been banned from entering Australia due to the risk that he might ‘incite…
Unequal work, equal pay – because you feel you deserve it
Asda, British supermarket giant, has recently lost the right to appeal a bizarre ruling regarding its allegedly discriminatory remuneration practices.…
Terror and our hopeless optimism
The ninth of November will live on in the history of Melbourne as yet another tainted date, a day that…
The word you’ve been looking for? Objectivism
There’s something darkly appealing about the whole spectacle of contemporary politics. The distinct magnetism of the performative theatrics, the moral…
Van Badham’s private fantasies
There is a peculiar class of journalists and public commentators who seem to make a living opining endlessly about the…
Mt Panorama; pinnacle of patriots
In Australia, as in most other affluent western countries, nationalism is no longer fashionable. Quite the opposite actually – we’ve…
Yes, we are all very racist indeed
Another week, another supposedly racist Herald Sun cartoon penned by the irrepressible Mark Knight. Didn’t he learn his lesson after…
Multiculturalism works; multivaluism doesn’t
Every sentient being on the surface of the earth is now presumably familiar with the perennial need for more and…
Right wing swing? Sure – but not to the Coalition
Peter Dutton lamented the loss of principled conservatism in the LNP and subsequently decided that the best course of action…
Tim Soutphommasane’s unending hypocrisy
Tim Soutphommasane is coming to the end of his directionless term as Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner. No doubt both he…
The case against public sector affirmative action
Affirmative action is perhaps one of the more polarising phrases to enter our political lexicon in the last few years, which…
The enduring appeal of African gangs
There are some political issues that have a peculiar ability to remain topical over many news cycles, interest slowly waning…
Performance review time
It’s end of year performance review time in corporate Australia. Oh, what boundless joy now falls upon us! White collar…
Caught by the Shorten curlies?
Can you imagine the temperature under Bill Shorten’s collar right now? Positively boiling. His neck is probably generating sufficient heat…
How to deconstruct the gender pay gap
A curious trend is emerging from fashionable cafes all over the country, a trend to offer certain menu items as…
The beast of corporate virtue awakens
Diversity and Inclusion. Tolerance and Respect. Gender Equality. These are the sacred creeds of the new corporate world. They’re also…
