The Brown Note

After a grim year of rising interest rates, a cost of living crisis and The Voice referendum debacle, Albo has come out of the gates of 2024 firing, with a genius move. Not canning the wildly unpopular stage 3 tax cuts, even better, making them for all and not just the rich. Lets play this out Dutton. And Waleed Aly must be the biggest flog not to have a show on Sky at night.

Sure to be a popular piece... Something just doesn't sit right with me about poor women being paid to use their bodies as baby incubators of the rich.

Pitchfork music magazine has apparently been executed, the century's most important music bible being folded into GQ magazine by its evil corporate overlord Conde Nast. As a devout consumer of Pitchfork since the turn of the century, I've been predicting this for the last five years - the post Fetch the Bolt Cutters years, but really the five years that editor in chief Puja Patel has been in charg...

With only 15% of Israelis wanting Prime Minister Netanyahu in charge after the current war, him having so few friends, either internationally or at home, and his saying the quiet part part out loud - there was never to be a Palestinian state, is a wider conflicting his goal now? He has only ever craved saving his political career, is solely beholden to an ultra-extremist right wing in Israel and p...

In a banner year for big, great and terrible movies, my best and worst films of 2023. Emperor's New Clothes award going to, Killers of the Flower Moon, sadly.   *Repost from the Brown Note Movie Review channel

My yearly list of the best albums, in a pretty decent but not great year in music, in a particularly poor era for music journalism. Movies to follow. Emperors New Clothes award for most inexplicably, universally praised album of the year - Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You *Originally posted on the other channel - The Brown Note Movie Review Full show with music - https://www.mix...

I can't read English Premier League side, Everton, being docked ten points for one count of financial irregularities as anything other than a shot across the bows of global soccer titans, Manchester City, currently accused of one hundred and fifteen counts. Though the right thing to do, with the global money men from FIFA to Saudi Arabia, looking to break apart football for their own interests, wh...

Why is it that every now and then a right wing populist scores a stunning election victory and their opposites on the left - like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn - never do? It's simple - far from being revolutionaries, tearing the system down, the right wing populist, from Argentina to the Netherlands, represents the global elite economic interests, just much more colorfully. You will see them co...

With nearly everyone a loser in this Western-backed horror show, one person has come out an undoubted winner - Vladimir Putin. After a year of unrelenting demonisation, sanctions and international pariah status (at least to the West) due to his war in Ukraine, suddenly the whole paradigm has flipped. It's now impossible for Western nations to both support Ukraine and Israel at the same time, witho...

Despite the USA having gone through the most tumultuous period of their modern existence, with an actual attempted overthrow of government and half the country openly flirting with fascism, the Democrats still have only one play in their book - rely on Trump and use Biden. Like last time. They should've lined up a batch of potential new leaders, instead they've no one and have spent the last two y...

Western governments, by their relentless, one-eyed and punitive take on the latest conflict in Gaza, are doing more to fuel a new outburst of global antisemitism than anything else - by refusing to ascribe any of this conflict to a Netanyahu government deemed an extremist global pariah a year ago, they are helping place that burden on the Jewish diaspora globally. And by denying the population of...

The ex-Liberal Party staffer, Bruce Lehrmann, recently involved in one of Australia's highest ever profile rape cases - the infamous Brittany Higgins rape trial, which collapsed due to jury misconduct, before a retrial was cancelled due to Brittany Higgins perilous mental health, has now been named as a person facing two new rape charges. Which on the face of it, I would have expected to generate...

An overview of the latest, crushingly repetitive episode in genocidal apartheid - now, post Ukraine, with even more helpings of Western hypocrisy.

Now that Australia's attempt to be nice to indigenous people was roundly defeated, a look at the reasons it failed and the behavior and culpability of all involved. Particularly the media - who were happy to complain daily about how the public never understood what the voice was, yet never offered to help explain it to them, despite widely supporting it and being the main conduit for that very pub...

The Australian Labor party - in the midst of a cost of living crisis - should let others take control of the Voice referendum, lest it be a referendum on them.

Okay a deliberately inflammatory title. A truer statement would be, why do we always lump cyclists into one group, when there are two main groups. The first are the people getting from A-to-B, minding their own business, casually riding, wearing normal clothes - doing great things for their health and the environment, god bless them. The other group are the Lycra commandos, that go out in packs of...

The cost of living crisis is hammering every nation that bought into the neoliberal economic nightmare - but it's mainly a cost of housing crisis, with the impact of house prices and rent killing our ability to weather any economic storm, as we eviscerated the idea of a meritocracy in favor of an inheritocracy. From the viewpoint of Sydney, rent and mortgages - on the one home you actually live in...

I've got a pretty good strike rate for getting things right on this channel, whether its election or the political climate, but boy did I get the Taliban wrong - and who knew! When the Americans pulled out of Afghanistan, I said there was no way the Taliban would go back to their old ways and treatment of women, as they sought international legitimacy and personal enrichment. Well, I totally f****...

The week after Spain's women won the FIFA World Cup has been dominated by an unwanted kiss, placed without asking, on winning player Jenni Hermoso, by the president of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales. Despite the entire planet asking him to go, he's refusing, putting himself ahead of everyone involved, including the World Cup winning side. But he's just the latest in a long line of...

Although it's unthinkable to send a former president to jail, given the crimes Trump is accused of, it will be very difficult NOT to give him jail time, and no one wants that more than the cowardly cuckold Republican party. For the Democrats, Trump in jail is a potential nightmare. Also - 6'3'' and 96Kg - HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

In lieu of the recent TikTok meltdown over a user asking a prospective employer, during a job interview, what the employer would do for their time blindness, as though being perpetually late was an illness others need to accommodate, not everything wrong with you is a condition others need to manage. To quote Christian Slater from the iconic movie Heathers - Everyone's life's got static. But inste...

And not just Saudi money, with mega-rich folk - particularly from the Middle East - buying up Premiership clubs, they will want pay back. Now the wildly over-promoted garbage Saudi league is not only on TV in Australia for some reason (>cough< money) and spammed every other post online, but actually trying to get into the European Champions League (I guess Saudi clubs will be abiding by Euro...

I've been vocal about why I oppose the referendum on an Aboriginal voice to the Australian parliament in several posts - mainly how badly the campaign was being run and how dangerous it was.   Here then are ten ways that could improve the currently perilous chance of winning the vote.

The idea, that in a wealthy, advanced democracy, the child of a nurse deserves worse healthcare than the rich person's child that nurse is treating, because they earn more money, in a job that is probably half as valuable to society as a nurse is, should be called out for being the morally disgusting abomination it is. That any child deserves worse healthcare or education at all, because they're p...

With the FIFA Women's World Cup entering its final stages, lets acknowledge the impact new male and female fans are having on the game. We aren't talking about how toxicaly awful this new male football fan is, the one that breaks the holy sacrament of soccer - support a team, for better or worse, forever - and who chases a players like Ronaldo, Neymar or Messi from club to club. They are the worst...