Quite a few horrible things have happened this year. You could probably say that every December, but in 2011 all the bad stuff seems to have had a gigantic, momentous feel about it. We started the year with three quarters of Queensland being declared a disaster zone and we followed…
Who the fuck am I meant to vote for at the next Federal election? This is not a rhetorical question. I really want to know. Who is meant to get my vote? Who do I trust to do the right thing most of the time, and how do I minimise…
Porn is bad. There you go, I just saved you the trouble of reading most commentary and opinion on the subject. Porn Is Bad is the start, middle and end of just about anything you read or hear. Gail Dines gave a series of hysterical screeches when she visited Australia…
January is a special time for me. With the insanity of Christmas gone and the majority of the summer still ahead, most people are letting their thoughts drift towards the cricket, listening to the ABC commentary team bringing life to one of our favourite sports, or perhaps muting the TV…
My dear mother used to say: don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. And I’ve tried to follow that advice in everything I do. Of course, when I think of my mother, I automatically think of pornography, and not just because of my breastfeeding fetish. Some people don’t like pornography.…
At the time this goes to print, last drinks will have been called on a year of excremental mediocrity in Australia’s political history. The ugly lights will be on, revealing a handful of interns and junior staffers sweeping the debris around drunken, semi-conscious pundits too clapped out to talk coherently,…
Australia has one of the most complex, inconsistent and opaque school funding arrangements in the developed world. You couldn’t design a worse school funding system if you tried. This is because our education system is actually dozens of systems, public and private. Each is shaped by political opportunism, compromise, ideology,…
So here we are, teetering over the cusp of 2012. This is the year that apparently will make or break the major party leaders, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. It’s the year that kicks off the long countdown to the next federal election, which is due anytime from 3 August…
Sharemarket volatility, plummeting business confidence, the impending collapse of the great single currency project and the liberal rotation of headlines such as $X billion was wiped off markets following renewed fears of Y. The world is being swept by a financial storm. The question is, has your government remembered to…
Miami is best known for vice, Vice and art deco. But in the past decade it’s also become famous for hosting the equivalent of Schoolies Week for wealthy art buffs — Art Basel | Miami Beach — the “|” is essential, apparently. It now rivals the original Art Basel in…
When I was completing my law degree, we were taught that there are a number of competing considerations in sentencing. Exactly how many considerations there were depended on whose list you were reading, but a common selection would be retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation. Retribution is similar to punishment, or,…
And then, of course, there’s the question of the evolutionary future of pigeons. A while ago, through a series of unfortunate circumstances, my editorial consultant (see image to the left) had to be confined to the house for reasons of prophylactic hygiene. Consequently, he and I have spent the daylight…
I can’t pinpoint the precise date I became a Muslim because it took me a few years of dabbling in what would become the world’s largest socially-devalued religion, to know whether I wanted to make the stigma my own. The best I can come up with is late-nineties, when it…
Poor John. After more than 500 years of being dissed by Shakespeare and Robin Hood, there was nothing left but having Alan Rickman play him in a Kevin Costner film to confirm him as England’s greatest villain. John was actually no more villainous than any other king, but he was…
I’d been living at my brother’s place for a couple of months before I noticed the coffee shop. The end of something is never easy. Separation, divorce… even when it’s been a long time coming, when it comes as a relief rather than a shock, it still isn’t easy. Something…
For libertarians, government encroachment into the lives of individuals has gone a step too far. Even libertarians accept there is a limited role for government in restricting individual behaviour. But it’s rooted in principles of property, self-determination and personal responsibility. Not objectives that prefer a broader ideal at the expense…
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Adam Foster is not normal — but that’s a very good thing. Because if he was normal, then his wines just might be too, which would be a bloody shame. During a recent chat with Adam, it was plainly clear that this is a man who, by his nature, thinks…
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