The Brown Note

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.

With rape, misogyny and sexism scandals engulfing Scott Morrison's Liberal government, stop this disgraceful push to pretend this is a bi-partisan problem, because it happens once to the Labor Party for every hundred times it happens to the Liberals. This lets the Liberals off the hook and ensures they never change. It is not across politics, it's not everyone, it's not Labor and it demeans the wo...

In one of the ABC flagships best ever shows, Four Corners forensically details the time line of the rape of Liberal Party staffer, Brittany Higgins, in the offices of government, by a senior Liberal Party advisor and the subsequent cover up. I go through piece by piece as it shows how awful it all was in furious detail and the impossibility that Prime Minister Scott Morrison didn't know.   Link to...

An exhaustive look at that loaded question and everything it could mean - ending with a yes or no answer.

Yet again the Australian news media is presenting the farcical collapse of the media bargaining code as actually being in place (it isn't - even the government said they'd wait and see) and that it is responsible for Murdoch signing million dollar deals with Facebook (it isn't - these deals relate to the new Facebook News content, are happening globally and have NOTHING to do with the media bargai...

Why do we pretend this industry schmooz fest is the Oscars for music, when no award is ever based on how good the music is, solely sales and how much the industry backs it. Truly a worthless award - like giving out Oscars based on box office or how much an actor is paid.

A title way more controversial than the content - instead a deeper look at the issue and how it relates to sport in general, how much more complicated that is than on the surface and how it's a discussion we can have without losing our minds.

On International Women's Day (don't worry girls, they'll be coming for that next) a look at the way the worlds largest oppressed and marginalised group are the only ones to not have ownership of their own issue, story, politics, self-definition and identity and how that process is systemic.

Facebook just won a world's first battle with a sovereign government and trounced the ridiculous Australian Media Bargaining Code, making the Scott Morrison government look very silly indeed. Not that you would know that reading the mainstream Aussie media as they are the ones who asked for it in the first place, nor the government who claim to have won.

Christian Porter, the Attorney General of Australia who just destroyed the Family Court - designed to protect women against men like him, is the Liberal cabinet member about to name himself as the man accused of rape. The second Liberal government rape allegation in a week. The Liberal Party has a problem with women - we know this. It's almost as though having a man in government outed by the ABC...

The Australian government's attempts to Murdoch and Channel 9's bidding, with their gob-smacking Media Bargaining Bill comes to a shocking head as Facebook literally block all news sites from Australia. What the Aussie media wont tell you about how contentious the bill was or why it was terrible legislation in the first place and why I stand with Facebook. Which by the way, has become a lovely bli...

Why I think the devastating rape of a Liberal Party staffer, brushed under the carpet, resulting in the scott-free rapist attacking more women, will finally be the scandal to take down Australia's prime minister. Despite the compliant Australian media allowing Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party he leads, to get away with endless scandals that would've shocked Caligula - if this one reaches Mr Pl...

Actor Carey Mulligan (and the whole world) owe film critic Dennis Harvey a massive apology for the disgraceful act of destroying his career and reputation, to try and position themselves in this year's Oscar race. Her completely inferred response to a year old review, was nothing but the usual stories actor's, publicists and studios pump out between Christmas and February, just to put themselves i...

Facing the certainty of defeat to the god-awful Scott Morrison, subjecting Australia to years more of a declining economy and utter despair, a tactically hopeless Anthony Albanese must now step aside so the pig headed, incompetent sexist bully can face his worst nightmare, an articulate, even tempered, intelligent, strong, well spoken woman - Tanya Plibersek. Scotty would flounder from day one, an...

One of the happiest and most joyful moments in modern history has been watching the parasitic vampire cancers of Wall Street losing at their own rigged game, the hypocrisy over it a hall of famer. Ironically, the hedge fund vermin that have cashed out the public casino every time they could, failed to hedge against their own bets. Hopefully a new paradigm of terror for these scum to deal with.

There's lots of talk about the economic battle between China and the West but due to the combined forces of economic Neo-liberalism and globalisation, destroying Western economies for the last few decades and bolstering China, it's a battle the West has already lost and cannot come back from.

Australia's first evangelical Christian prime minister may not act like a moral Christian but he has own unique set of values that he keeps well hidden. Such as the Hillsong/Evangelical Seven Mountains Mandate, that dictates members of his church should seek positions of power in things like politics or media to promote an agenda their equally troubling Dominion Theory says gives them rightful rul...

Ditch bad leaders not good policy. Australian Labor leader Anthony Albanese has been a meek disaster, spooked by right wing media into adopting a policy of standing quietly and politely as close to Prime Minister Scott Morrison as possible and speaking when spoken too. His abandoning of Labors excellent, necessary policy to shut down the wealthy retiree free money rort that is franking credits out...