In a declining economy, what's expendable? When Harper appointed one of the largest cabinets in recent memory, he instructed his Ministers to dig deep and make a list of what's essential, and what's not. This is just like cleaning out your garage. While some of you really wanted to keep all the arts...

This is the final instalment of Freedman Down Under... we pick up as Wifey and I cruise across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, in glorious sunshine and blue skies, with the words of John Farnham ringing in our ears. The combination of the song, the view and the air conditioning made the hair stand on end...

Frances Widdowson, professional victim and peddler of anti-Aboriginal hate-porn disguised as scholarship, takes her Wild West Show on the road....

So we pick up the story in Melbourne early on Sunday morning, when Wifey and I are driven to the airport by the Rippa, to board our (shudder) low-cost airline flight to Alice Springs. The night before, we had made a pretty valiant effort to eat our way through the Limor's legendary meat fress, and w...

this is the Salty portion of todays presentation.. and yes it’s as salty as a dead seahorse up in this mug. lets start with the Pirate Asses in Somalia.. they got to speak with the Lil 12 year old girl. now they go showing they ass by not even tossing the baby a chunkachedda on they ducatdrop....

Baz at Work Posted from South Australia The Smackdown.  Australia is a continent, my country, a state of mind and now, finally, a movie.  To get the silver-screen version made, they gave one of the most visually stylish directors working today more money than he'd ever had for a film before and le...

I like big movies. I movies with stars. I like movies that have scale to 'em. I like watching a movie and thinking, "Yo, this must've cost a fortune and took forever to shoot!" But watching the trailer for AUSTRALIA has reminded me of certain things about Hollywood. Whenever you hear the word "sweep...

Eric Brodrick from Alice Springs has a piece in Crikey this week titled “What’s the Pitjantjatjara word for computer?” His argument boils down to this paragraph: Not being able to speak the major language of a country is a disability equivalent to being profoundly deaf. Limiting a ...

What has followed from Dick Pound's casual remark on the historical "savagery" of North America's indigenous cultures is fascinating, not only on its merits but for what it says about the conceptions of Aboriginal culture in mainstream thought. It is not Pound's comments that h...

Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. The Bunyip is an Austra...