The Brown Note

The latest vanguard in the civil rights movement seems to be pronouns and new sexualities - it shouldn't be, it's not the same thing and it's taking up space.

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has fallen down the stairs backwards into an election winning position and is now in a race with Prime Minister Scott Morrison to see who can reverse the slowest to victory.

The obnoxious right wing firebrand has been booted out of Australia for breaching COVID rules and that was the plan all along. She never intended appearing on Celebrity Big Brother at all. She wanted exactly what she got - to manufacture her own exit then cry about her freedom of speech being silenced. Heads must roll at Channel 7 for ever thinking this was a good idea and being duped by this low...

If the modern age has been defined by Islamic extremism, no country is more culpable than the USA, who have been the driving force in fomenting radical Islam for more than seventy years, usually to attack Russia. Nowhere is that more bitterly on display than in Afghanistan - where America began funding violent Islamic groups in the early seventies, and doing so wholesale under Operation Cyclone th...

Being allowed to get away with murder by both the Australian media and half the public - the coalition government has increasingly resembled the last days of the Roman empire, with corruption that would make Caligula blush. The latest 'sports rorts' dwarfing scheme being the $660 million car park rorts, more evidence the Scott Morrison government spent billions in tax payers money to get re-electe...

Through the sheer luck of being a remote country, with a small popualtion, well spread out - Australia rode the first year of COVID at the top of the world. Now the terrible leadership of the Morrison government is coming home to roost. With terrible vaccination rates, access to vaccines, vaccine roll outs and quarantine facilities - Australia is heading to the bottom, with crippling lock downs an...

Proof once again Australian politics is about as far from being a meritocracy as feudal England, the bonking beetroot Barnaby Joyce is once again the deputy prime minister of Australia. This after previously being sacked for being caught cheating on his wife and the mother of his four daughters with a young female staffer he got pregnant and being accused of sexual harassment. Kind of ironic for a...

Making the case that the band that came from the UK's dreariest town yet turned into the most glamorous act on earth were not only the best singles act of the 80s, who released the most dramatic singles but also the best 'boy-band' since The Beatles and the last great boy-band before it all went to hell.

Narcissism is an oft underestimated and potentially dangerous mental illness, how that combined with a massive amount of the worst people supporting you is a lethal combination.

After the tennis ace's revelation of depression, subsequent withdrawal from the French Open and apparent Martyrdom, why the press and the public are massive hypocrites, who arbitrarily ascribe love or hate to famous people and excuse or hammer their every move based on that alone. Lets not pretend we've changed.

Having the developed world's most incompetent government lead by it's most inept leader was always going to end in disaster sooner or later, now Australia's responsibility shirking Prime Minister, Scott Morrison's fumbled Vaccine roll out disaster will have massive ramifications for the year to come. Hey, he doesn't hold a dose mate.

The latest episode of Christian Porter versus the World is the best yet, in a terrible few months for the ex-Australian Attorney General and one time anointed Liberal Party princling. Once touted as leader of the country, then outed by an iconic ABC expose into Liberal Party sexism and abuse of women - things got much worse from there with the accusation of the rape of a sixteen in 1988 and her re...

In another no doubt popular opinion - it's time to let the disgraced and cancelled Kevin Spacey back into the world (and why James Franco and Louis C.K. should never have been cancelled in the first  place).

In light of the FriendlyJordies YouTube attack on the NSW Liberal leader and state premier, Gladys Berejiklian, a look at her unfathomable and disgraceful hero worship by Australia's slavish news media, despite being up to her neck in corruption. An affair/corruption scandal that would've instantly destroyed the career of any Labor politician hasn't left a mark on her spotless reputation. This app...

The final in a four part series on the current Israel Palestine conflict. America has been Israel's never ending ally no matter what happens. A look at how toxic that relationship now is for proposed human rights champion Joe Biden, how the relationship is finally changing and why the biggest champions of the state of Israel are not American Jews but evangelical Christians.

Part 3 in a four part series on the current Israel Palestine conflict. It is frequently mentioned that Israel is the only democracy in the middle east, the dog whistle being that they are much more like the West than either Arabs or Muslims - yet their version of democracy is actually far closer to to Saudi Arabian theocracy than they would be comfortable with.

The second of four pieces on the current Israel Palestine conflict - this looking at the oft touted right of Israel to defend itself no matter what.

The first of four pieces on the latest conflagration between Israel and Palestine, why the current conflict exploded. Basically the onerous Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to let Palestinians and Israelis die in order to stop himself going to jail over corruption charge - a flat out war crime that should see him in the Hague.

After a relatively quiet few years, the Israel/Palestine conflict has flared to catastrophic levels. A look at two major recent events, the Israeli high court weighing whether to forcibly eject Palestinian residents from their homes in Jerusalem and simply give them to Israeli settlers, leading to the current riots and pitched battles and the recent Human Rights Watch condemnation of Israeli apart...

A lament for the two countries I've spent most of my life in and in whom life has got continually worse, yet whose populations keep electing those responsible like they are trapped in some nightmarish Stockholm syndrome. Meanwhile our fellow English speaking Western nations, NZ, Canada and the USA leave us for dust and progressive futures. Oh, the humanity.

Ahead of SBS's landmark TV documentary investigation into Australia's epidemic of domestic violence against women called, See What You Made Me Do, an overview of one of the shames of the nation. From the vile scourge of Men's Rights Activism to a new wave of online-fueled sexism, it seems it's not just our right wing politicians but an awful lot of men who have a massive problem with women.

A rant and look at the new season of Australian Masterchef and how desserts are coming to dominate and ruin the program.

With nothing going for them in their obsessive chase of the 24 hour news cycle and public opinion, Scott Morrison's Liberal Party go for their time honored tactic of courting jingoism and xenophobia. Once again showing reckless disregard for Australia in the face of their own personal vanity, they've gone after an imaginary war with China and an already massive failure of a covid repatriation scan...

Even in a run of the worst political scandals in modern Australian history, Labor leader Anthony Albanese is STILL missing in action, still unable to cut through and Scott Morrison is impossibly still likely to win again. Labor need both a new leader and a female leader - one that can show the worst of Morrison. Kristina Keneally has it all, she is Australia's answer to Jacinda Ardern - she has th...

We got a window into the secretive Pentacostal world of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a gold coast convention. It's a far more extreme world than most Australian's would be comfortable with, if they knew. And with it's belief in the prosperity gospel, dominion theory and the seven mountains mandate - an obscene inversion of Christianity, seeking money, power and dominion over the wor...