The Brown Note

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...

In any normal country, the relentless scandals and corruption that have continually beset the federal and state governments of Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian, would've resulted in destruction. Not in Australia, where both end the year on highs with both the public and the press. Something is wrong with this picture.

Right wing populism has done many terrible things these last five years but when Trump and Scomo and Boris are long gone, Brexit will remain. A Brexit lament.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison enjoys ridiculously unearned popularity but a foundation built solely on popularity is no foundation at all and he maybe be on much thinner ice than people credit. Labor should take note of the various storms swirling beneath his feet and strike.

Bit of cross pollination here with the radio show (show with music https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/the-brown-note-top-25-albums-of-2020/ ) My top 25 albums of 2020 in a very flat year all round. Best and worst films of the year next week.

How Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blundered his whole country's economy into a war with two fighting behemoths, without realising their economies are dependent on each other and where we have nothing to fight with at all and no possibility of success, where our best friend in the fight simply picks up the slack we lose and we are the only ones possibly hurt.

Australian idiot bull in a china-shop prime minister, Scott Morrison, threw Australia under a bus six months ago, by wildly and stupidly attacking China to benefit Team Trump. Now his actions are coming home to roost, he's doubled down by falling for an obvious Chinese trap - the war crimes photo scandal. But then he was terrified of getting the blame for the first mistake and Mr walking photo-op,...

Every time Labor lose an election, they run terrified from the right wing version of events. That they lost for being left wing, that unions, socialism and identity politics killed them. This is garbage, hundreds of millions of dollars in corrupt vote buying and a Labor scare campaign by Clive Palmer did far more damage, yet here we are again. A Labor leader standing as quietly, politely and close...

Our uniquely compliant, backside kissing, endlessly validating media gives the Liberal governments at state and federal level the most easy ride imaginable. A year of never ending scandals and corruption has not dented their love in the slightest, and across the board from television to print media, our liberal governments are held accountable by precisely no-one in the media.