This is a very interesting thread but I think it’s worth highlighting the incredible complexities when it comes to terminology.
First Nation is generally considered most respectful (though not by everyone) and w […]

I don’t think you’re speaking for the Australians who issued her a visa in the first place JW. Apparently awarded, according to the Home Affairs Minister, on the basis of “potential benefit to the commu […]

Further proof that the most dangerous animal in Australia is the human.
Australia lockdown: Nude sunbathers fined for breaching Sydney Covid rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57634166

I agree with some of that but if we take one particular aspect of Australian society – the criminal justice system – in which Indigenous Australians are massively over represented, only a governmental policy shift […]

The Rudd apology was actually 13 years ago which only increases the inequity.

I thought episode 4 was genius. Hatred, disposability, desperation and failure are now the Partridge tropes. I can see why it’s not everyone’s thing but at the risk of sounding pretentious I thought it a […]

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 […]