Sinclair Davidson in The Australian laments the Greens’ oppressive money “xenophobia” (demanding that the Australian taxpayer get a bigger slice of the multinationals’ profits on our irreplaceable natural resources): Brown’s economic xenophobia will cost us dearly FOR a man who so warmly embraces every foreigner seeking asylum in Australia, Bob Brown is strangely xenophobic when [...]
READ MOREJune, 2011
Weak girly bullets
You know what? After Ms Olding’s #trollday effort (I presume Pure Poison readers have noticed by now that where Monday is Tony Abbott Stunt Day, Thursday is media organisations’ Deliberately Provocative Trolling Day), I’m not even going to bother with a detailed retort to Ted Lapkins silly attack on women in the Australian Defence Force [...]
READ MORE
Lock Up Your Daughters!
The ironically-surnamed Rachel Olding, writing in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, has discovered something shocking: girls of today are MUCH WILDER THAN THEY WERE WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL (five years ago): Spending a month touring Sydney’s bars with the girls was an unfettered, depressing experience. I’m only five years older than them but their behaviour [...]
READ MORECut & Paste Trophy, June 29 – July 5
The arrival of the new Cut & Paste Trophy thread hints at something wonderful: that the next podcast has now been recorded, and it’s time to start collecting the why-did-they-publish-that comments for the next one… News Ltd likes to pretend that reader comments published on the site of any competitor represent the views of that [...]
READ MORESomething, something, kids, marriage, gays.
You know what’s a really great way to win a debate? Discuss the issue that you’re focussing on through the narrow lens of one particular moment in the 20th century rather than with any broader perspective, and pretend that it is somehow impossible for any kind of change to occur. That seems to be the [...]
READ MORE
“Scrutiny”
Two articles from the last few days about the Greens; one from Fairfax, one from News. Which one actually made you think about Greens policy? Which one added to your understanding of them? “Jack The Insider” whinges that the Greens don’t invite the media into their conferences; John Birmingham explores the mindset of the Greens [...]
READ MORESome quick Monday #lolbolts
The Southbank Jester doesn’t understand why more people might show up to a rally about giving the police the power to fine them for using ordinary English words, than might show up at a paid IPA function* to oppose the “oppression” of a wealthy newspaper columnist whose views are also heard on radio and his [...]
READ MOREOpen thread June 27-July 1
I’m back. A huge thank you to Jeremy for holding the fort while I was in Western Australia. As an exercise in expanding your mind I can recommend listening to the talkback on ABC Perth, if you ever suspected that the populations on each coast of our nation didn’t really understand each other this will [...]
READ MOREPaul Sheehan’s false choice
Paul Sheehan isn’t entirely incorrect about the asylum seeker issue: One of the most passionate and enduring debates in this country has been built on a falsity, a false choice He’s right – it has been built on a “false choice”, although it isn’t the one he identifies. The false choice is that if we [...]
READ MORE
