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By the time you read this, the 2025 federal election campaign will mercifully have less than 24 hours left on the clock but I’m still happy to declare it the dumbest campaign in living memory. A campaign of 5 weeks that seemed like 5 years, its main achievement has been showing Australians what a desperate…

There’s an Australian election tomorrow, Joe Exotic from Tiger King is now tangentially involved, and I just cannot take any of this shit seriously anymore.  I understand that’s an unusual position for an editor of a political media outlet to take, but it’s 2025, get with the program. If I treated this circus with reverence,…

“I’m bringing Columbus Day back”, Donald Trump gleefully announced on Truth Social, reinforcing the ancient tradition (that began in 1971) of the American nation officially celebrating one of history’s most successful genocidaires. The depopulation of the Caribbean islands triggered by Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas, a model closely followed throughout the continent, translated easily to…

When you lose the fan club at The Australian, a Coalition leader is in serious trouble. After Andrew Hastie was let out of witness protection last week to stand next to Peter Dutton for the Coalition’s Defence Policy announcement – which, like most of the Coalition’s policy announcements was more a promise to chuck money…

Just a few quaint pandemic-y years ago, Scott Morrison, Prime Minister, secret Health Minister, secret Finance Minister, secret Industry, Science, Energy and Resources Minister, and secret Home Affairs and Treasury Minister, possessed the Professor-X-like ability to put my mind into a trance. To telekinetically move my arm to the tv remote, to click off, and,…

Universities have been with us for many centuries, with their roots deep in the tradition of philosophical enquiry as a key component of what it means to be human. The organising principle is simple: the advancement of civilisation requires a safe space for higher learning. All very high-falutin’, but there isn’t a free society where…

Normally the idea of locking a bunch of social media creators in a room without access to the internet would be the media’s wet-dream, yet when it happened recently it was so controversial that it nearly overshadowed the boringness of the 2025 federal budget. As a Gen Z person, my reaction to hearing that so-called…

Isn’t it insane that not wanting Palestinian children to be blown up with impunity can leave you feeling alienated from mainstream Australian society?  It’s fucked up. Like, really fucked up. Fucked up to the point I’m pining for a dose of the more traditional garden variety of alienation triggered by lame celebrities, celebrated thinkers that…

As the saying goes, everything the Nazis did was legal, under German law. Hitler began by being lawfully elected, then invited to form government and become Chancellor under the constitution, following which he suspended everyone’s civil rights, suborned parliament and made increasingly repressive laws. Since government consists of three arms, you need to capture or…

Chooks, gallus gallus domesticus, chickens, hens, whatever; as someone who’s spent many hours observing them, I can confirm they’re deeply weird birds. If chook watching isn’t your thing – and let’s be honest it’s not something everyone’s putting on their CV – bear with me dear reader. There’s a reason we use the word chicken…