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#AusPol ~ Q1 2020

March 1, 2020November 6, 2020 Throsby 143 Views

We all know what happened in December. Bushfires and smoke. The PM, startled by the intrusion of Australia at his Hawaiian resort, stumbled in front of the media bus and copped a glancing blow from

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AusPol at Easter

March 29, 2018November 6, 2020 Throsby 54 Views

Once, exasperated news hounds might shake their heads and marvel at how life imitates art. It was stranger than fiction, they exclaimed. Nowadays it’s just “You can’t make this shit up.” And though headlines grow

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Green Micks Day in Batman

March 17, 2018November 6, 2020 Throsby 55 Views

Voters in the Victorian federal electorate of Batman were a little nonplussed at the huge number of Greens supporters roaming the streets on March 17 election day. Throsby can’t be sure if punters knew how

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BeetrootGate ~ Trumble Took Exception

February 16, 2018November 6, 2020 Throsby 66 Views

Advice to pundits – novice and well-seasoned: let a scandal play out a while before opining in a space more enduring than a tweet. We suspected that #BeetrootGate might whither and die on the vine,

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A Year Too Silly

December 31, 2017November 6, 2020 Throsby 53 Views

Yet each seems sillier than the last. That’s odd. You would think we’d be getting more used to silly. Maybe we are and, to borrow a saying and twist it: “Don’t argue with Silly. It’ll

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Rubbish, Bobby, Rubbish

December 10, 2017November 6, 2020 Throsby 52 Views

In the Great Southern Land we have an anticipatory aphorism: “She’ll be right, mate.” Deployed phonetically as “sheeyellbi roight moite,” it’s designed to comfort wunnannuther with some future bliss. Although it hasn’t been seen in

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Much Ado About Stuff

December 1, 2017November 6, 2020 Throsby 62 Views

The international reader – should the northern hemisphere lapse into inexplicable torpor and attention drift towards Britain’s remaining colony, Terra Australis – might need a helping hand with the goings on around this place. Well,

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AusPol Week 47

November 26, 2017November 6, 2020 Throsby 54 Views

Another exciting week in Australian federal politics. The 47th such, this year. Exciting for government opponents – like lion fans at the Roman Coliseum. Exciting for government supporters – like passengers in a bus careening

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Due Diligence is Not Their Concern

November 24, 2017November 6, 2020 Throsby 49 Views

“I’m a good man in a crisis” declared the leader of Australia’s most crisis-ridden government in decades. “I blend in” tweeted a wag. Throsby is tickled pink to be covering Australian Politics at such an

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Gaffes, Dolly the T-Rex, Pensioners unwelcome

August 4, 2012November 6, 2020 Throsby 50 Views

Broken news E.B. White’s Newsbreaks in The New Yorker magazine were curated media gaffes. In April this year The Times “posthumorously” provided White his best: Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified the number

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Civilization

...defiles itself
Times past when warlords, priests and royalty hoarded luxury, life was a short grim struggle. Today most want for little yet still deny dignified survival to working poor, and ravage entire countries as collateral to our laissez faire fiesta.
double arrowOn not shedding a tear ..

Australiana

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A Century of Imperialism

...hasn't dulled the urge boligan usa cracks worldAmerican foreign policy never a pretty sight, finesse of the mobile crane chase from Terminator 3. Export democracy? Cure worse than disease. double arrow Read more ..

Charity

~ its own reward Ad Council campaigns And what's going on in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave? As 40% of kids fail graduation the Iraqistan wars suck $2.4 trillion [CBO 2017 est]. Imagine this staggering sum applied to rebuilding The Great Society. Think of others. double arrow Where Charity Begins

This lazy unemployed

...crack-smoking welfare queen ran up U$15 trillion debt lazy homeless scumOdd how the ultra-wealthy gull even working poor to blame unemployed, disabled, weak, and vulnerable while but for the grace of God go all. If he's a welfare leech then your soul is with the sociopaths and predators who own Warshington and its minions, the Repugnicans and Dumfocrats, gutting a once noble nation that aspired to equality.

This elite will survive the US economic train wreck, land softly on 300 million plundered taxpayers, then from fortresses of luxury and privilege prey elsewhere for spoils. The dawn of civilization was greatly exaggerated.

Quote Me

"I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another. In a way I have nothing to say but a great deal to add."
~ Gore Vidal

"Rulers of state are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying." (Well, that explains the last 2500 years)
~ Plato

"By 'known unknowns' I was referring to the universe's dark matter.."
~ Donald Rumsfeld

"I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fullness of my heart in speech, I am resolved to do it in writing, and to print myself out."
~ Joseph Addison

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Olio

Olio 

Olio

March 4, 2017 Ewen Shearer

The term ‘sheep overboard’ describes an ageless battle: a herd of naive humanity prey to pyschopathic kin. SheepOverboard the website expresses in essay that struggle reflected within. A vanity website for personal musing in public.

Olio 

Argue with us via email

January 15, 2017 Throsby
Olio 

Immortality ~ Not Fame

May 27, 2011 Ewen Shearer
Olio 

Testimonitals Forgettable

June 6, 2008 Ewen Shearer

Letters to Ed

Letters 

Price of Grog is Outrageous

October 23, 2018 media

Err, gidday. Oim hoping youse an yer readers can soign the petishun to end gummint taxin fun. The link is https://www.ldp.org.au/stoptaxingbooze Me an me mates are dedicated boozers an we think it stinks that our

Letters 

Not So Smart

October 5, 2018 media
Letters 

Misconstrued Snobs

August 28, 2018 media
Letters 

Quality Journalism

July 20, 2018 media

What the humans are saying

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