My brother rang me last night foaming about a piece he’d seen in the Sunday paper about Pastor Peter Curtis, Federal Liberal candidate for Lalor. That’s Julia Gillard’s seat, so this affable Barney Rubble lookalike hasn’t a hope in hell, pardon the expression, Pastor. My brother’s upset because the northern suburbs are kind of a […]

Jon (our tech guy) is doing an upgrade and bug fix this morning so if the site disappears for a moment or two, don’t worry. Adding comments should be fine. If fellow contributors are planning on posting anything though, it might be best to hold off until the work is done. I’ll […]

Here’s a neat little story that doesn’t seem to have got much attention in the MSM.
WorkChoices, or to be more correct the Workplace Relations Act, is administered by Joe Hockey’s department, Employment and Workplace Relations. The previous minister was Kevin Andrews.
Back in 2005, unions organised a national day of protest against WorkChoices and many public […]

The surrealities surrounding the foreign policy of the Bush Administration - and the USA more generally, given the difficulties the Democrats are having articulating a coherent strategy - continue unabated. On the one hand we have the Panglossian triumphalists, trumpeting that everything is going splendidly. Iraq is practically the showpiece in a demonstration village of […]

Little screen capture from his latest column:

Sounds about right…
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Emma Larkin is an American journalist and writer who has visited Burma several times since the 1990s. Finding George Orwell in Burma (first published in 2004) is a travelogue of Larkin’s visit there to follow in the footsteps of Orwell, visit the places where he lived and worked, and even find traces of his extended […]

When the creepy visitor asked her to kiss his hand, Megan’s instinctive response was to say “Eew!”

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Ah Karma, it’s good to see you’re still around.
Family First is getting its knickers in a knot (can I say ‘knickers’ in a Family First sentence?) about a preference deal between the ALP, the Greens (and presumably the Democrats).
Greens leader Bob Brown said earlier today that his party and Labor were close to announcing a […]

The bloke just keeps getting better and better. Stand up all those pundits who’ve been describing Howard for years as a political colossus, the man who can pull not just a rabbit but a whole warren out of a dumb looking Akubra, Mandrake Howard the Magician who can gesture hypnotically and have half the population […]

Gosh Liberal politics is hard to understand sometimes. No wonder so many people have stopped paying attention completely.
It’s like trying to barge into a game of backyard cricket. There are so many rules that only the players know. Like you hit a great shot and get told to hand over the bat, cos the wattle […]