As most of our regular readers know, the Tribune is a very small enterprise. Our staff consists of the child labour we coax and threaten into stuffing the subscriber envelopes each month, the whippets who knock over piles of carefully sorted mail and the dedicated friends, fans and family we…
Australia’s favourite number crunching marsupial predicted the Great Unhinging eighteen months ago. He revisits it here and it’s not pretty. On the morning of September 8, 2010 — less than 24 hours after the independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor announced that they would support Julia Gillard as Prime Minister…
Half a dozen scientifically-proven ways to protect your best friends (or destroy those shameful copies of Twilight and The Da Vinci Code). Uncomfortable Truths #1: Flood waters rising In 1966 the Arno River running through Florence, Italy, flooded. Over two days, it brought with it hundreds of thousands of tons…
Master Loser will give you diabetes, fatso, now get confident while we film you in your undies! “Don’t listen to your inner-critic.” Of all the bad advice reality television has upchucked, this comes close to the worst I’ve heard. In my own view, it is when one chooses to ignore…
The blog had, and still does have, the potential to change the media landscape. Has Twitter killed its potential? I was recently part of a public discussion at the University of Melbourne where the topic was the role played by anonymous sources in contemporary journalism. Also, of course, we speculated…
What chance do polar bears, Inuits and some reindeer herders stand once the big players move in on the Arctic’s massive energy and mineral reserves? We’d say let the games commence, but this is not a game. There isn’t going to be a shooting war for Arctic resources just yet.…
There are too many things we know about intimate partner violence that we wish we didn’t. And too many things we don’t know that we wish we did. If you’re reading this then you know a woman who has been abused by her partner. You might not realise it and…
You know all those things you already know that, if you have a soul, make you vaguely uncomfortable, so you pretend you don’t know them? Well too bad. Here they are. Now you know. People eat dead animals because they are delicious. People do everything they can whilst eating dead…
You wouldn’t mind zombies stealing your brain so much if they didn’t replace it with a nest of self-important bloody journalists. I must have missed that moment when we relinquished our brains. You know, that moment when we scooped out the gelatinous orbs that give us independent thought and popped…
Ben Pobjie’s not soft on drugs, he’s hard. Very hard. What’s the first thing you think of when you think about drugs? Lindsay Lohan? Me too. Weird, right? It’s kind of unfair, when you think about it. But then, there’s nothing fair about drugs. Drugs are no respecter of fairness…
Remember those long, hot summers of your childhood? Those afternoons that seemed to last forever as you joined the neighbourhood kids for a walk on a sunny afternoon, meandering through the long grass with the warbling of congenial magpies wafting on the soft breeze. You’d sneak across the neighbours’ property…
In nineteenth century Australia, half a dozen heroic women you’ve never heard of changed the world. This month on ABC1 you’ll hear their stories, thanks to freelance historian Dr Clare Wright. For the past five years Dr Clare Wright, Research Fellow at La Trobe University and author of Beyond The…
Organ transplants are life-saving operations for patients with diseased organs. But rather than transplanting organs — a tricky business that requires some degree of genetic matching to minimize rejection, not to mention a donor — can we replace these organs with man-made organs? Can we make devices that would substitute…
A must-read for anyone who’s ever taken their shirt off to contemplate Thoreau and Poe. A crow is looking at my nipples and it’s all the fault of Henry David Thoreau. As part of preparing to move house I’ve been spending a lot of time renovating my garden, and this…
We got as far as the second item on the list before we terminated Mat as a Tribune writer forever and beyond. How will you go? This morning a friend of mine tweeted this: ‘Really really enjoyed Avengers. (NB not very interested in discussing / debating / being told I…
You’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the T-shirt, now what... Yet another charming innovation in slot machines is on its way. Poker machines. There’s no tackier way to while away the hours than plugging coins or notes into a slot and pressing a button. Electronic beeps and boops, flashing lights…
“There is only one god, the god of Death. And what do we say to him? Not. Today.” Syrio Forel, Game Of Thrones. TJ’s trials by near death — not his wish, his fate … He was falling backwards into a bottomless glacial crevasse, joined by high tensile rope to…
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