Opinion
Sydney councils
What can we read into this council book ban? Perhaps we lack minority rapport
If we had tempered our self-congratulation over marriage equality, we might have left more outlets for frustration than the brute signal of banning books.
- by Malcolm Knox
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ICC Men’s World Cup
Australian selectors optimistic at best in ignoring T20’s A-kid
George Bailey and his panel think they are being risk-averse with their World Cup squad. They are actually risking everything as the world changes without them.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Social media
This X-rated man-child is so powerful, he got our politicians to agree on something
Social inequality keeps growing, bombs keep landing, and our planet keeps burning. Yet, our leaders can find common ground only about a social media platform that’s close to its putrid end.
- by Malcolm Knox
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NRL 2024
Latrell Mitchell is the most important person in NSW. Why is he being booed?
Racist booing led to Adam Goodes quitting AFL. League fans could impact Latrell Mitchell’s future if they continue to jeer the Rabbitohs’ star.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Cafe
Oi, old mate, a cafe isn’t a rent-free office. Why don’t you Zoom off?
Cafes are occupied by too many entitled loiterers, for whom $4.50 a coffee is way too cheap. The rest of us are subsidising their Zoom meetings.
- by Malcolm Knox
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NRL 2024
One theme, one dream: Where NRL gets it right … and wrong
Multicultural Round reminds us that rugby league is more than local phenomenon, the obsession of eastern Australia and Lancashire.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Drugs
Our cocaine sewers tell a story of affluence not effluence
Australians live amid two distinct and irreconcilable cost of living crises. Our affection for cocaine draws a line between the two.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Sam Kerr
Believe it or not, the overblown coverage of Kerr is a step towards equality
The portrayal of professional women in sport as inherently simpler, softer and purer than men ignores the facts when like is compared with like.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison’s exit sermon was 5482 words. I’m speechless
If Scott Morrison’s valedictory address prefigured anything, it was that this is a former PM heading into retirement with plenty more to say.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Wallabies
Fast Eddie and ScoMo take responsibility but it’s not their fault
Throughout the new documentary following the Wallabies’ calamitous 2023 Eddie Jones says “I take responsibility” for a disaster before taking actions that show he really believes the opposite.
- by Malcolm Knox
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Alcohol
Wowsers! There’s only one thing more boring than a heavy drinker
There’s only so much mineral water you can drink before your life becomes an endless treadmill between table and toilet with few laughs in between.
- by Malcolm Knox