Interestingly, one of the original contributors on this very forum is an ex police officer who did the 30 years thing, retired and is now fully focussed on music.
He’d be far too modest to say so but the b […]

Spiders, sharks, mice and crocs are comedy risks compared to floods and bush fires. Oh and politicians.
Australia floods: Thousands evacuated as downpours worsen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56476998

Sadly, it’s barely registered in Australian consciousness, unsurprising since crime and punishment is very much a national blind spot.
Even the state governments which are (notionally) Labor have passed bail l […]

Paul Daniels. Dead but still a prick. Now that’s magic.

But isn’t an opinion, a comment indicating disagreement with the thrust of a thread, rather than its existence?
After all, if you think there’s nothing more to be said, logic (not to mention manners) would sug […]

I’m writing something about sexual violence in the lyrics of popular music but what interests me the most is how casually accepted some blatantly sinister lyrics have been – and I think still are – accepted. […]

Neither. I’m asking: 1 – What price revisionism? 2- Who really listens to the words? 3 – What’s the most offensive lyric you know of?

Others of a similar ilk. My Sharona – ‘Always get it up for a touch of the younger kind’, Prince ‘When U were mine – ‘Let all my friends come over and eat’.
If we’re giving Rolf and GG the big E, shouldn’t w […]

Thanks for clarifying Steve. I guess I’m thinking with ISHST there’s a ‘barely legal’ vibe happening. But then, what can we say about the Stones, Stray Cat Blues’- ‘I can see you’re 15 years old, no I don’t want […]

Australians love to trot out these stories to perpetrate the legend, but in actual fact, the most deadly animals in Oz are … horses and cows.

I can’t provide any evidence of bribery and corruption but having worked at the event for a couple of years during A Murray’s heyday, it’s a veritable schmoozefest for Melbourne politicians and officials. Somew […]

It was more like sub-sub-sub contracting. The original security contract was sent out for further tender, a process which ultimately led to the recruitment of a poorly trained, inexperienced workforce with […]

It’s a massive risk and a potential public relations disaster. I second your scepticism about the financial benefit the Open brings, much more significant is the status of Melbourne hanging on to an i […]

I’m with you on your main point, but it’s worth saying that the ‘security guard shag incident’ was an entirely made up story courtesy of The Melbourne Herald Sun. Didn’t happen, the local spread was a result of […]

And of course Siraj is Muslim, so your main point about net widening is apropos. 7/10.

Mohammed Siraj. Sloppy work Junior, please see me.

Australia didn’t declare, they were bowled out both innings. That said, superb effort from India but a disastrous series for the home team. Racism in the Covid limited crowd, classless sledging from behind the w […]

Sadly it is true though it depends, to an extent, on interpretation. Obviously the US has the highest overall rate of imprisonment but Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated by percentage of population. […]

It’s hard not to see it as window dressing. Indigenous Australians, despite comprising 2.3% of the general population constitute 27% of people in custody, making them the most incarcerated cultural group in the w […]