Tag Archives: Straya

Rape in Australia: highest reported number of rapes by men of women per capita in the world?

Posted on October 29, 2013 by @ndy

Today, Van Badham has a really good piece in The Grauniad (Australian online edition) on ‘How not to raise a rapist’. Leaving to one side the important points she makes about the existence of a culture of violent woman-hating, I … Continue reading →

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“Nazis are not fucking welcome at a Dropkick Murphys show.”

Posted on March 24, 2013 by @ndy

Sieg Fail! As you may already know, the singer for the band Dropkick Murphys won a good deal of applause recently when he unceremoniously escorted a bonehead off the stage. Internet nazis were of course enormously butthurt by Ken Casey’s … Continue reading →

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Straya

Posted on January 30, 2012 by @ndy

“We spend an enormous amount of time in this country navel-gazing about what kind of society we are. It seems that, on some occasions, we engage in a form of public fretting about what it really means to be an … Continue reading →

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From #MTRsues to Joolya’s Shoe

Posted on January 27, 2012 by @ndy

I am sick. But not too sick to fail to appreciate the seamless transition from #MTRsues to #Joolya’s_shoe. Sue For better for worse, for richer or poorer (bleedin’ poorer that’s a fact), Jennifer Wilson has published extracts from the letter … Continue reading →

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Happy Australia Invasion Shoe Survival Day 2012

Posted on January 26, 2012 by @ndy

Yeah so indigenous peoples lost a continent. On the other hand, the Prime Minister lost a shoe. A shoe! Straya.

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