The Brown Note

In the most terrifying US election year perhaps ever, Bidens per-occupation with warmongering was dangerously splitting the Democrat vote. Now with an improving economic picture, Biden is ahead of Trump in recent polling, by Fox News no less, for the first time in eight months. Ironically, the best thing to have happened to his chances in a year, is the conviction of his own son.

Congratulations on Anthony Albanese and Labor on winning a second term. I don't normally call elections a year and a half out but this one is done. Only people with either A) an agenda or B) no understanding of politics, are trying to sell you Potato Dutton as electable because of midterm polls. Let me walk you through why these mean nothing and why the clueless Dutton has already lost.   *post ma...

There are two all time hall of fame hypocrisies being told by the Republican Party over Hunter Biden. One is they're crying and screaming that any trial their God Donald Trump faces is a politically motivated travesty of justice, whilst relentlessly pursuing Joe Biden's son (and failing to land any corruption charge on him). The second is the party of gun ownership under any circumstances, seeking...

There are two massive lies being told by Western governments and Israeli prime minister, and war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu. One is that he is destroying Hamas, when every observer says they are growing in strength with every Israeli bomb and are stronger now than when the most recent round of this conflict started. The other is that Netanyahu wants to destroy Hamas at all - he desperately needs...

As hysterically funny as it is laughing at the fury of Australia's biggest ever trust fund nepo baby, over a portrait of her that brilliantly captures her inner ugliness, why am I the only one who thinks the artist, Vincent Namatjira, is deliberately referencing Goya's horror masterpiece, Saturn Devouring his Son, a painting about a powerful entity who defeated his own father and then his own chil...

Whilst Western leaders enable genocide, the United Nations and the ICC are standing up for justice, with the latter now issuing an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. This has led to two of the most insane comments in American history: President Biden, "It's clear Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection," and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, "[The] ICC has...

It wasn't supposed to be like this, but in this unbearably dangerous year for Western democracy, President Biden has spent huge focus and political capital on two hugely damaging wars, everyone sees as hypocritical and in the middle of a cost of living crisis, deeply unpopular. The right are focused like a laser behind Trump whilst Biden squanders votes with pre Iraq war global policeman antics no...

Apparently the Australian news media has decided we are in a middle of a housing, rental unaffordability and cost of living crisis, as they do whenever a Labor government is in power. It's now 18 times the average wage in Sydney to buy the average home. Except it was 15 times the average wage in back in 2015, NINE years ago and we were in a recession in 2019 BEFORE COVID. I was posting about this...

The recent statement, a woman would rather encounter a bear than a man, alone in the woods, sure has fired off an almighty sh$tstorm. But why are so many men so fragile and so easily triggered? I can't ever remember a woman feeling the need to say, not all women.

The Guardian newspaper is running a wholly honorable series on how we treat the the now, one quarter of Australian children who enroll in school, with some form of disability, commonly Autism or ADHD, not to mention a colossal amount of food allergies. The one question they and are no one is asking, what the hell caused one quarter of Australian school children, enrolling in schools to have some f...

The biggest student protests since the occupy wall street movement or even the Vietnam war, have been greeted with a predictable, time honored response from the American government, faculty and police. Infantilizing the protesters, claiming they're misguided, going about it the wrong way, beholden to malignant outside forces and even racist. Once again American student protests are on the right si...

Linda Reynolds, the former Liberal government defense minister, just got told by a judge, a young female staffer under her care, Brittany Higgins, was raped by her senior advisor, Bruce Lehrmann, in her own office. Most of us in her position would feel intense guilt and responsibility for such an event occurring under their watch - any CEO would resign in tears. Not Linda. Linda is forcing Brittan...

In reflection on my piece last week, celebrating Brittany Higgins victory in court, raped in her bosses office by another member of staff, and put through hell for years. Even though that piece got a paltry number of views, it got nearly the same number of comments, not one in support of a woman a judge just agreed was raped, none in criticism of Bruce Lehrmann, the man a judge just said raped her...

It gives me so much pleasure to finally be able to call Bruce Lehrmann a rapist, just as a judge did in court. And how wonderful would it have been, for Brittany Higgins to finally hear those words, in the only judgement handed down on the matter, after so many years of trauma an abuse. A look at the defamation trial and its aftermath, the biggest own goal in the history of own goals for rapist Br...

A few years back, on a trip through Mexico, I found one of my favorite places on earth - Mazatlán. Though well known in Mexico, I've never met a single other person who has even heard of it. The recent eclipse saw Mazatlán in the news as the first place in the America's to see it. So a shout out celebration to one of the greatest and most unsung beach side cities in the world, forget Cabos, its ga...

Trans actor Hunter Schafer - most famous for the TV show Euphoria - has come out and stated she no longer wants to play trans roles and that's all she gets offered. It feels like a watershed moment that hasn't quite hit yet. A look at the numerous elements around what roles, what actors are allowed to play, including the impact of only allowing trans actors to play trans roles - which I went throu...

Even though it was remarkably obvious to the entire world, who carried out the recent Moscow concert hall terror attack, Russian state media has continued to push the lie that Ukraine were responsible- and there's an obvious reason why.

John Howard did what Margaret Thatcher did in the UK - reshaped the country for worse forever, the awful impact of his terrible economic and cultural legacy shapes us to this day.   Posted in response to Greg Jericho's excellent article on the evil of this man - https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/mar/26/blaming-john-howard-is-easy-but-his-government-helped-shape-the-world-we-liv...

Ex Australian state leader, Dan Andrews, is a hero of mine, no-one has stuck their middle finger up to the Murdoch press and the populist right quite like Dan. They never landed a blow on him through years of abuse, he just laughed in their faces. Unfortunately he shares the Achilles heel of UK and Australian Labor parties, by being an beholden to the Israel lobby. Him going to a back slapping bus...

Having posted many times about seeking peace and not just piling arms into this conflict, I again find myself on the same side as the Pope (?!) but this time Ukraine has a terrifying window of opportunity, with an American election only half a year away, and the prospect of a Putin loving puppet in the White House, the strength of their hand is shrinking rapidly.

Even FIFA don't seem quite as hypocritical as The Eurovision Song Contest - the most preachy of all major events when it comes to exclusivity for all, tolerance and promoting rights. They took a "principled" stand and immediately banned Russia from competing, to uphold "ideals of democracy" but maintain they are non-political (I guess upholding democracy isnt political?!) and wont ban Israel, beca...

Exactly what it says on the tin.

The Australian women's soccer captain, Sam Kerr, has been arrested and charged, in London, for allegedly racially abusing a white police officer. Mindblowingly, ex-mens player, and now major pundit, the universally respected Craig Forster, who has spent years publicly speaking out about racism, didn't even understand the difference between racism towards black people and white people. Here is my n...

Last week I posted that the Australian opposition leader, Peter "Potato" Dutton, was the most unelectable in twenty years, this week he lost an election. A small election with a swing towards him, but a fragment of what he needs, and now he's turning to nuclear power as a pivot. The lack of understanding the man has, let alone his lack of charisma is a rolled gold election win for Labor. I have al...

Sorry populist right, but the leader of the Australian opposition Liberal party, is the least electable since Mark Latham, twenty years ago. But keep doing what you're doing :)