Alcohol, capitalism and king hits
The history of capitalism has running through it a history of alcohol. Alcohol appeared at the beginnings of class society, with beer jugs found in the late Stone Age. Wine and beer existed in class...
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Packer and Gyngell: crash of the titans?
Two middle aged thugs terrified the genteel folk of Bondi a few days ago. In scenes reminiscent of the rumble in the bungle, billionaire James Packer and his good mate, TV station CEO Bruce...
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Their violence and our resistance
A few students interrupted Liberal Party hack Sophie Mirabella at Melbourne University on Monday. So loved was Mirabella in her past life as a Liberal apparatchik and parliamentarian that the good...
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Of sharks and pepper spray: the ‘moanstream’ media in Australia
The top news in Australia today is a surfer being attacked by a shark. In South Africa. None of the ‘moanstream’ media (as far as I can tell) mention the Victorian police pepper spraying medics who...
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Je suis Karen
Thanks to the ludicrous yet frightening Living Safe Together booklet most of Australia knows about Karen, the women who became a ‘radical activist’ (whatever that is) by being involved in the...
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Unite to fight systemic violence
Image via freepick.com In Independent Australia on Tuesday I discuss the recent tragedies of Orlando and the Jo Cox murder and the systemic violence behind these and other violent incidents. I end...
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The Ali Fahour incident and an unseeing society
(Screen shot via @morningshowon7) The tolerance of violence in sport is a symptom of a far greater malaise involving a largely unseeing society, I write in Independent Australia.
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