The Cost of Class
‘Heaven shall forgive you Bridge at Dawn/The clothes you wear – or do not wear’. These words are from Ballade d’une grande dame by G….
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King Is Dead
So much like a dream (it may still become a nightmare). The slimy little jug eared, lycra wearing, slogan spouting (stop the boats, Stop the…
Rock The Casbah
Our glorious Prime Minister has for sometime harboured delusions of grandeur extending to it seems military heroism (young Australian soldiers doing the heroic part but…
Faith
My first memory as a fan of Australian Rules football more than fifty years ago was that it was enshrined as a ‘religion’ in this…
Footy Speak
Footyspeak is a therapeutic lingo that promises its pundits beyond the boundary truly magical moments of release and revelry. As an incorrigible addict who regularly…
Beyond Labels
The overtly innocuous gender labels, male and female, entrench a destructive divide in our society that far too often distorts our unique individuality. Multi-layered myths…
Age of Reason
THE NEW AGE OF REASON (in nomine patris, et filii, et sanctum divitiarum – In the name of the father, the son and the holy…
Yukio Mishima
Excerpt from Confessions of a Mask By Yukio Mishima In the woodblock prints of the Genroku period one often finds the features of a pair…
Vegemite Beer
What is this bullshit about indigenous communities making home brew Vegemite? Surely the aboriginal nation is smart enough to start it’s own outback brewery if…
Religion Sucks
Three religions all following the same book of rules at odds with each other’s interpretation of it! What a strange phenomenon that large parts of…