The Brown Note

Complacency is the destroyer of safe governments. Though through a complete lack of opposition, Chris Minns Labor government are safe, his total disregard for Labor voters is a peril. Seemingly obsessed with representing any one but Labor on any issue, being a knee-jerk rash decision maker, with terrible judgement and relentlessly pro-Israel, sooner or later, the Labor voter will stop holding thei...

oh bother

Deep into Australian Prime Minister, Don Albanese's second term in office, the media still can't lay a glove on him. The best they've had this last month is Kylie-gate and Melon-gate - it's embarrassing.

Australian AFL team, Sydney Swans have disproved the adage, no such thing as bad press, after being embroiled in a sex and drugs scandal. How Hubris (an overreaching, overconfident and arrogant belief in your own power and ability, can lead to reckless decisions destroying your life) brought them down.

Recent comments claiming domestic violence was a two-way street, by Australia's lord and savior, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, drew condemnation but unless the word "trans" is involved, Pauline has always been anti-women.

It was billed as an investigation on antisemitism, but antisemitism has barely been mentioned, instead the Roal Commission has focused near solely on attacking opponents of genocide and supporters of Palestine. It has also shone a terrifying light on the wish list of the Israel lobby that has done them far more damage than good. 

The sovereignty of The Falkland Islands has blown up again recently but Argentina's claim for the overseas British territory fails at the first hurdle - when are they giving Argentina back?

Poor, poor NIgel Farage thought he had it all covered in his attempts to avoid corruption scrutiny, and then the biggest own goal in UK political history. Two massive reasons why he will lose to the public's galvanised hero.   Because he's the hero Clacton deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a w...

I love calling election results a long way out and have a strong track record of getting it right, this one though is a very risky pick, as all prevailing wisdom says Labor will lose in November. They've been in power too long, have lost an iconic leader and the press have trashed them for years. Here's why I'm still picking them for an unlikely win.

After a lifetime of falling upwards and hanging out with CEO's, Karl is now reborn as a working class hero who tells it like it is, or something.

FIFA has tried for years to ruin football by monetising every last thing they can, but material changes to Football are unacceptable. The much derided "hydration" TV advert breaks split the two half game into four quarters. Now we are getting into important games - this will have an unprecedented impact on play.

He isn't knee-jerk, doesn't chase the 24hr news cycle, isn't afraid of his own shadow, always plays the long game, has superb timing and lets the world catch up to him. I have faith he is waiting to destroy AUKUS at the right moment.

The world's least cool and most cringe inducing man, Elon Musk, is brilliant at selling shares in companies that struggle to make profits. Even compared to Tesla, SpaceX is a doozy worthy of a monorail salesman. Never made a profit, loses billions, never going to make a profit, but worth a trillion dollars. For some reason.

With Belfast the third Reform UK riots in recent years and Australia's corporate news media desperate for it to happen in Australia, a look at a story as old as time. How the wealthy elite deflect attention from them screwing every one else over, by co-opting and astro-turfing grass roots rage and aiming it at brown people.

FIFA have been destroying football from within for years and have reached a half-time show style apex with this insanely, punitively expensive World Cup. Meanwhile the attention seeking narcissist in chief, Trump will seek to plaster himself all over every inch of it and the most multicultural sports fans on earth can deal with even getting into the country.

Ignore every opinion poll not three months out from an election and you will instantly know more about politics or who will win the next election. Opinion pollsters are businesses that cannot say the poll is the same for three years straight, no one would buy it, they have to provide intrigue every day and suit clickable narratives, like a right wing populist is surging in the polls etc. Same for...

Australian PM Anthony Albanese continues to amaze me with his political intelligence. He and his treasurer have managed to take on the holy sacrament of actual fair economic reform, that has destroyed and terrified Labor for so many years and won. The timing - with zero effective opposition, is perfection. Finally John Howard's way of life destroying era of tax breaks to help those who already had...

A 68 year old man in Sydney has been charge with wearing a swastika t-shirt, in front of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism. In the past this would have been a Neo-Nazi, but this seems to have (unconfirmed but more likely) been a Palestinian supporter. Given the supporters of Israel are going to great extremes to re-define this once sacrosanct word to mean any criticism of Israeli policies, mi...

After the atrocious but expected Labour performance in the recent council elections, laid bare even the Labour voter's disdain for this feckless, spineless, judgementaly challenged faux Tory Blairite Zionist, he is toast. But as he and his gang expelled all true Labour people from the party, he's left us with no one not like him to replace him.

Brexit architect Nigel Farage's merry band of posh Tory working class hero grifters have won a stunning victory in the UK's local council elections. What actually happened and what it all means.

Queen Pauline wins and its a real threat to Labor how they keep taking votes from the Liberal party. For some reason. A big weekend for the populist right, what with Reform UK's massive success in the local elections there, but the two scenarios are very different.

It never ceases to amaze me how entire events will destroy themselves willingly for the Israel lobby. Even with five member nations boycotting the competition, they still wont budge on Israel's participation, and it's all anyone will talk about - alongside the industrial scale cheating that could likely see them win it this time.

Well there are many reasons, but one deal breaker, which for many left or progressive voters is a Rubicon they will no longer cross.

Every. Single. Day.

The current catastrophic Iran war is certainly for Israel, and for the last thirty years America's wars massively focused on the Middle East but were they all fought for Israel? Well, no, but there is an astonishing uptick in turning that into a yes.