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[This week’s column is earlier and, to be honest a bit lighter, because I’m writing from a hospital room waiting to go into surgery, so I’m gonna be a …
Jul 21Comment 14Share
I feel sorry for Greg Hunt. Who? You know. Greg Hunt. The Health Minister? The worst sidekick ever? The pandemic’s floppy limbed Jar Jar Binks to Scott…
Jul 16Comment 14Share
Holy crap this Jack Waterford beat down of Morrison is epic.From John Menadue’s blog. His party and the electorate know by now the most they can expect from him. It is not impossible that this ‘most’ coul…
Jul 13Comment 3Share
Scotty the cubby house curry king emerged from internal exile yesterday, startlingly thick of hairplug and frowny of smirkface, to pronounce that he wa…
Jul 9Comment 21Share
It's your ADF. Go wild.
Jul 2Comment 18Share
No sooner had Bonerby promised us all he’d grown into a better man during his long, bitter, underpaid, undeserved, no good terrible very bad years in e…
Jun 25Comment 10Share
The thing about show trials is, they’re a bit fucking showy. The Australian writer Yang Hengjun, currently waiting to find out whether it suits the max…
Jun 18Comment 16Share
Since 2010 we have killed more than forty people in our various island prisons, scattered in a vast arc of nearly 7000 kms, stretching from Christmas I…
Jun 11Comment 8Share
I woke early on Monday morning, planning to get to my desk and catch up on Friday’s column, which I’d piked on after a week of illness. I coughed twice…
Jun 8Comment 16Share
Or maybe Tuesday.Got out of bed this morning, coughing and spluttering, took a couple steps towards the kitchen to make my usual cup of tea… and promptly fainted.
Jun 6Comment 2Share
ASB rescheduled to MondayMy AZ shot went well. I was even a little smug, being one of those who suffered no after effects. It didn’t protect me from a straight up dose o…
Jun 3Comment 18Share
I’ll be heading out to get my first COVID shot in a couple of hours, a hit of Astra-Zeneca from my GP. I’m in Brisbane, so I’ll have the freedom to dit…
May 28Comment 34Share
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