I watched the new ABC social comedy ‘Marking Time’ last night. I was just going to watch a few minutes and then change over to view the awfully slick Indiana Jones movie again, but I got caught up in it and watched the whole show. Normally, coming of age in a country town and overcoming […]

I know that this isn’t the common view (and it is certainly not the view of On Line Opinion’s newest – and only – virtual columnist Henry Thornton for whose persona and creators I have the greatest of respect) but John Howard ought to be pummeling Ian MacFarlane for raising interest rates. There was no […]

That’s one implication of the Sunday Mail’s poll this morning which puports to show that Pauline Hanson would “storm senate”. Maybe.

The first CAH award (Field of Technology) goes to the inventor of the leaf blower. This ridiculous device has contributed more noise and pollution to absolutely no positive effect than probably any other invention in modern history, possibly excluding the atomic bomb. The first CAH award (Field of Media) goes to the person who dreamed […]

I got a couple of interesting responses to my “Anti-Greens” piece. So I want to say that, yes, Kyoto is a joke, it does almost nothing to halt global warming because it would need to be about 10 times stronger to work at all. But Kyoto is not really about fixing global warming, but starting […]

It is good to see Pauline back on the front pages! This is because sometimes even I forget that the mass media is about creating news, not reporting it, and having Pauline on the cover is like a big sign saying “This is media-fabricated bullshit.” Pauline was from the outset a media-created phenomenon. The red […]

Apparently the writers of ‘Kath & Kim” have denied it is politcal satire, but I think it is the most trenchant critique of Howard’s Australia on TV. Here is a bunch of self-satisfied, brain-dead cretins whose lives revolve around domestic trivia in the hyper-materialistic suburbs. They think they are the last word in worldly sophistication, […]

This morning’s newspapers show Pauline Hanson at her best, and most journalists at their worst. Pauline is busy doing what she does best – playing the victim – while the press is by and large improvising on her tune. Most guilty is The Australian with its headline – The truth has set me free. Surely […]

Pauline Hanson has been acquitted, which puts my essay in On Line Opinion in an entirely different light. I have only quickly read the judgement, but in summary it finds that while Hanson may not have thought that people signing up to join her supporter’s group were in fact joining the party, it is arguable, […]

It is an old trick of those power to try to steal the clothes of their critics and thus present themselves as the put upon underdog. This is why every conservative politician has to proclaim how much he or she hates government.