The Brown Note

In any normal country, the relentless scandals and corruption that have continually beset the federal and state governments of Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian, would've resulted in destruction. Not in Australia, where both end the year on highs with both the public and the press. Something is wrong with this picture.

Right wing populism has done many terrible things these last five years but when Trump and Scomo and Boris are long gone, Brexit will remain. A Brexit lament.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison enjoys ridiculously unearned popularity but a foundation built solely on popularity is no foundation at all and he maybe be on much thinner ice than people credit. Labor should take note of the various storms swirling beneath his feet and strike.

Bit of cross pollination here with the radio show (show with music https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/the-brown-note-top-25-albums-of-2020/ ) My top 25 albums of 2020 in a very flat year all round. Best and worst films of the year next week.

How Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blundered his whole country's economy into a war with two fighting behemoths, without realising their economies are dependent on each other and where we have nothing to fight with at all and no possibility of success, where our best friend in the fight simply picks up the slack we lose and we are the only ones possibly hurt.

Australian idiot bull in a china-shop prime minister, Scott Morrison, threw Australia under a bus six months ago, by wildly and stupidly attacking China to benefit Team Trump. Now his actions are coming home to roost, he's doubled down by falling for an obvious Chinese trap - the war crimes photo scandal. But then he was terrified of getting the blame for the first mistake and Mr walking photo-op,...

Every time Labor lose an election, they run terrified from the right wing version of events. That they lost for being left wing, that unions, socialism and identity politics killed them. This is garbage, hundreds of millions of dollars in corrupt vote buying and a Labor scare campaign by Clive Palmer did far more damage, yet here we are again. A Labor leader standing as quietly, politely and close...

Our uniquely compliant, backside kissing, endlessly validating media gives the Liberal governments at state and federal level the most easy ride imaginable. A year of never ending scandals and corruption has not dented their love in the slightest, and across the board from television to print media, our liberal governments are held accountable by precisely no-one in the media.

Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are portrayed as irrational zealots, hell bent on destroying the Labour Party, yet the cult of personality really destroying Labour is that of Tony Blair, whose wildly misrepresented legacy as Labour's savior is completely untrue and whose acolytes are in delusion and denial.

Recently Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with murdering two people and shooting a third with an illegally owned assault rifle is now out on a $2 million bail, raised by the public, half of whom regard him as a hero and he may well not spend one more day in prison. The rapper Bobby Shmurda will finish all seven years of his sentence for illegally owning a gun, yet not being the direct perpetrator of any...

With a bitterly fractured world, divided along the political right and left, recent wins against populism have come with some imploring us to reach out to the right and heal. I say no, these are not good people, they want to fight and are the enemy.

Another winner in 2020 bingo. Why I don't think the celebrity chef and now Qanon-lite grifter is an ACTUAL white supremacist, in light of his recent and utterly bizarre posting of an anti-Trump meme with Nazi connotations and subsequent cross-media cancellation, he may just be incredibly stupid.

Australian Attorney General, Christian Porter, was outed on a recent 4Corners TV expose on Liberal party misogyny and bad behavior towards women. Ring wing news media of course came in to bat for him as claiming rumors of his boozing and affairs weren't in the public. With this top legal entity in the country currently involved in a Men's Rights attack on the Family Court that's perceived to be to...

His election defeat was beautiful but now we enter a dangerous phase we only joked about and that now seems real. Donald really is trying to take over American democracy in a coup and why this is going to lose the republicans their last crown jewel - the senate.

The ABC's 4Corners expose into the systemic sexist, entitled behavior of Liberal National Party government officials shows they really believe themselves to be the ruling elite, above such petty concerns as faithfulness to their wives, respect to their staff or honesty to their electorates.

The best UK political leader of my lifetime, the UK's Bernie Sanders - Jeremy Corbyn, is once again being railroaded by accusations of racism, despite campaigning against racism for decades in a way almost no UK politician has. SHAMEFUL

It's been a horror five years, bouncing from catastrophe to disaster. From Trump to Brexit to Boris to Scomo. The nightmare of populism might be ending though, with great election results in New Zealand, Queensland and the US knocking at the door.

I can't think of another oppressed or marginalised group who have ownership of their own issue, identity or story so routinely talked over or dismissed as Women. The Harry Potter author, JK Rowling's personal notion of feminism has clashed with Trans rights. Why I stand with her.

The ex-Aussie Prime Minister takes aim at one of the most pernicious influences on the Western World's political discourse and media landscape - the Murdoch Press. "Some Say" a vile cancerous parasite on the Anglo-Sphere. Find his petition for a Royal Commission into them here:   https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938

He probably had anyway but the optics of his $750 tax bill just ended his campaign.

Australia's neoliberal acolyte government seeks to cut unemployment benefit and increase tax breaks during a recession, for a perfect storm of economic ideological lunacy.

A look at the terrifying issues raised by The Social Dilemma documentary, about the colossal, unprecedented and dangerous impact of social media on society.

Why Trump and his supporters line of attack on Biden is a colossal mistake and will never get traction.

Though I am loathe to promote any conspiracy theory, here is my own!

How Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will try and blame his government's six year economic disaster on coronavirus and the Labor party, why it's a lie and he shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.