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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…

As sure as the sky being blue and Elon Musk being a waxy, heinous prick, Israel is colonising Palestine. That is not an anti-semitic slur, nor should it be a controversial thing to say. It’s not even an opinion. It is a statement of historical, political and cultural fact. It is the truth.  And though…

Judith Treanor, Suzie Gold and Michelle Berkon were welcomed by security, NSW police and event attendees as they held a small gathering outside Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney to protest a speaking event by Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton. Concerned by Dutton ‘weaponizing antisemitism for political gain’, the three women, who also happen to be proudly…

On 8 December 1941, Australia declared war on Japan. It was one day after Pearl Harbour, and it was our first ever independent declaration of war as a sovereign nation. When we’d gone to war against Germany in 1939, Australia still considered itself a vassal dominion of Great Britain and that it had no say…

For the task at hand – journaling the truth of the world as I perceive it – it is unhelpful just how hyperbolic reality sounds when described accurately. This is the news, not a Paul Verhoeven film, not Wolfenstein, but the distinction grows more meaningless by the day. In just a single month, Donald Trump…

It must have been quite a shock for the latest crop of far-right activists to find themselves suddenly being condemned by the Coalition. After years of their despicable stunts being ignored, deflected, or treated as a reason for preselection, the recent spate of antisemitic vandalism reminded Peter Dutton and his attack pup James Paterson that…

Nobody ever worked out exactly what crime Antoinette Lattouf had committed; but they didn’t miss in ensuring she was punished for it. Watching the seemingly endless parade of ABC apparatchiks through the witness box of the Federal Court, one was struck by two things: the stark whiteness of the power structure of the national broadcaster;…

We have crossed both the Rubicon and the Rhine these last few weeks, and the next liberal who screeches “this is not who we are!” when talking about America needs to leave the room and go read some fucking books.   Just three overwhelming weeks later and it should only be the scared, stupid and pathologically…