The Brown Note

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...

With apologies to all those essential workers who just can't, why for me and millions of office workers, working from home is life changing and beyond wonderful.

Well, what a difference a day makes! In the 12 hours since this was broadcast it looks like the whole thing has predictably imploded. Why everyone was wrong about the European Super League killing football and why the whole idea was a fallacy. Plus the likely future plans of a global super league, the ruinous owners of the Premier League and how it was just as much about debt as greed.

I have a very complex opinion on my Royal Family, for a lefty a surprisingly positive one. In the modern era we care more about sentences than actions. Philip is denoted a racist over his famed gaffs and far less remembered for fighting actual fascists for every year of World Ward 2. A look at his treatment and that of Harry and Meghan.

Australia recently made a joint statement criticising China for human rights abuses over their indigenous Uighur population. We are the last developed nation on earth with a right to do so, given our world's-worst records on our own indigenous population. From life expectancy to incarceration we currently hold a number of dire global records and have a hugely problematic relationship with human ri...

Australia's Prime Minister was a completely different person ten years ago to the daggy dad/talk radio friendly/sports tv carnival barker we see today. His persona is a pure invention, designed to appeal to a voting demographic. Who is the real Scott Morrison? What is this fabricated, fraudulent, empty shell of a man at our country's center?

What a great job being a Liberal politician is, behavior that would get anyone in any office or shop job in the country sacked, is continually forgiven. As the Liberals try the latest move to stop the wildfire of misogyny engulfing the party, by moving staff or sending them for empathy training on how to not hate women quite so publicly, how can they fix a cultural and systemic problem with women...

To be fair raped Liberal staffer, Brittany Higgins, has had a good run. I didn't think the rabid right would let her get away with being a hero for so long, but like the first comedian to joke about a touchy subject, now sacked blow-hard DJ Jeremy Cordeaux has broken that dam. Expect more attacks to follow. His comments however are Olympic sized stupid, yeah Jeremy, I think a drunk woman could rea...

Four weeks ago I posted that the Brittany Higgins rape scandal would finally be the thing to bring down Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison - a month on that noose has tightened. As the audit trail of lies moves ever closer to this serial denier of responsibility, the day draws long for this vile human being and his woeful, incompetent, lying leadership.