J. D. Morecambe

Vote ‘no’ to racism

1 August 2023 4:30 am

‘[We hope for] a future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with…

Peelers or a paramilitary?

19 September 2021 12:56 pm

It states in the Victoria Police Manual of 2019 that the purpose of the police is to “provide a safe,…

The King Cnuts of coronavirus

11 June 2021 12:20 pm

In eleventh century England, King Cnut was told by his admiring courtiers that ‘there is nothing on earth that dares…

Not OK, Boomers

22 March 2021 6:10 pm

‘There is the moral of all human tales;  ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,   First freedom, and…

Daniel Andrews’ corroborree of jobbery. Part III: the gold rush

8 March 2021 4:27 pm

“Yet out of the very roots of the grass we shake gold. We can see the particles shining as we…

Covidintimacy for covidiots

16 January 2021 4:27 pm

“There is no greater glory than to die for love” cries Florentino Ariza in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, Love in the Time of Cholera.…

Coronavirus can’t stop crazy social policies in Danandrewstan

20 July 2020 1:01 pm

Victoria’s new race-based parliament, The First Nation’s Assembly of Victoria, has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution to establish a ‘Truth-Telling…

Facts are irrelevant now

8 June 2020 12:55 pm

‘This is the excellent foppery of the world…’  — Edmund in King Lear (Act 1, Scene 2), Shakespeare.  In an…

Dark Emu, the High Court and our crude new racial hierarchy

13 February 2020 1:31 pm

“[We hope for] a future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with…

Clouds block the dawn light as Dan Andrews’ corroboree of jobbery first meets

19 December 2019 12:04 pm

Victoria’s First People’s Assembly sat for the first time last week, with the Doric colonnade of Parliament House welcoming a veritable corroboree…

Daniel Andrews corroboree of jobbery. Part II: the secret parliament

12 November 2019 5:00 am

Polls have closed and 21 Aboriginal members have been elected to Victoria’s ‘First People’s Assembly’. The assembly will meet on…

A corroboree of jobbery: Daniel Andrews First People’s Assembly

19 September 2019 7:25 pm

On Monday morning, voting began to elect the new ‘First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria‘. This ‘voice for Aboriginal communities’ seeks…

How Aboriginals are abused by the new PC paternalism

29 August 2019 5:00 am

But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the…

“They Day” Mayday

6 August 2018 7:18 pm

The Victorian government has staged its latest attempt at imposing a gender-neutral newspeak on the public service. After subjecting public…

A Viking, an Aboriginal and a culture bureaucrat walk into a museum…

30 May 2018 6:53 pm

Rocks dash together  And witches collapse, Men go the way to Hel And the heavens are cleft. Thus ran the…

Transgender contenders

13 March 2018 1:15 pm

Sport, from the suburban backyard to the manicured turf of the MCG, has always been recognised as a defining aspect…

Let’s be kind to Dobbin and send him to a knackery

5 March 2018 1:00 pm

It’s a scene all Melbourne residents will recognise; the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages going by, the sight of red-coats, top…

Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Marx’s detritus

15 July 2017 1:59 pm

Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently published a piece in The Guardian Australia lambasting her critics as being merely ‘afraid of a young…

Big Brother is watching you (for training purposes)

7 January 2017 10:13 am

As the dust settles after the momentous earthquakes of Trump and Brexit, one fact remains standing amongst the rubble: our…