NBA season 2021-22: Early observations
Jarrod Prosser takes a look at some of the more compelling storylines from the opening stages of the 2021-22 NBA season.
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Month: October 2021
Australia puts plan into killing the planet
Warwick McFadyen has decrypted the spin coming out of the Australian government and translated what they’re really saying about their plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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Plan with a ‘P’, and a side of ‘Straya
Prime Minister Scott Morrison faces the music in Glasgow next week over his vague net zero ‘Plan’. Andrew Gardiner asks: will our rank self-interest get him off the hook at home?
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Footyology Podcast: More media self-indulgence
The AFL season is over, but there’s never any stopping the Footyology Podcast. We’re talking footy and a whole lot of other fun stuff all year round!
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How NOT to Conduct a Family Holiday
As Melburnians eagerly prepare for their first holidays in many months, Ian Wilson recalls his first and only family holiday in 1973 and warns that they don’t always reach expectations.
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Invade Australia? It’s been done already, Candace
Candace Owens’ call for the US to invade Australia over our “tyrannical” COVID-19 response was comical, but hers and others’ vitriol is having a scary impact here, writes Andrew Gardiner.
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AUKUS and the blob
It’s significant that Paul Keating’s heirs in the Labor Party have distanced themselves from his blistering analysis of the new AUKUS pact, as the Australian ‘blob’ lines up behind it with barely-disguised glee, writes Emma Shortis.
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For every underclass, there is an overclass
Warwick McFadyen looks at Pru Goward’s controversial take on the “underclass”, and in the interests of anthropology, decides to flip the script.
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Footyology Podcast: Lighten up, lockdown’s ending!
The AFL season is over, but there’s never any stopping the Footyology Podcast. We’re talking footy and a whole lot of other fun stuff all year round!
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Surrender to Cheap Trick’s perfect slice of power pop
Paul Spurling deconstructs the classic track “Surrender” by Cheap Trick, a band too snidely cynical, too brilliantly subversive to become the megastars they should have been.
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