The Brown Note

Australia's COVID Luck Has Run Out

Through the sheer luck of being a remote country, with a small popualtion, well spread out - Australia rode the first year of COVID at the top of the world. Now the terrible leadership of the Morrison government is coming home to roost. With terrible vaccination rates, access to vaccines, vaccine roll outs and quarantine facilities - Australia is heading to the bottom, with crippling lock downs and border closures far past most developed countries, the worst is yet to come.

Let Us Re-JOYCE BARNABY IS BACK!

Proof once again Australian politics is about as far from being a meritocracy as feudal England, the bonking beetroot Barnaby Joyce is once again the deputy prime minister of Australia. This after previously being sacked for being caught cheating on his wife and the mother of his four daughters with a young female staffer he got pregnant and being accused of sexual harassment. Kind of ironic for a coalition government who refuse a quota for women because they believe in the best person for the job but wonderful for the rest of us. Barnaby is a rolled gold egoist who cares about nothing but himself and his delusions of grandeur. Prime Minister Scott Morrison now has a live hand grenade he cannot sack, who represents two of his governement's weakest points - climate change and its problem with women.

Duran Duran - The Greatest Singles Band Of The 80s

Making the case that the band that came from the UK's dreariest town yet turned into the most glamorous act on earth were not only the best singles act of the 80s, who released the most dramatic singles but also the best 'boy-band' since The Beatles and the last great boy-band before it all went to hell.

Why Trump Will Never Stop Winning

Narcissism is an oft underestimated and potentially dangerous mental illness, how that combined with a massive amount of the worst people supporting you is a lethal combination.

The Great Naomi Osaka Hypocrisy

After the tennis ace's revelation of depression, subsequent withdrawal from the French Open and apparent Martyrdom, why the press and the public are massive hypocrites, who arbitrarily ascribe love or hate to famous people and excuse or hammer their every move based on that alone. Lets not pretend we've changed.

Scott Morrison's Vaccination Vacation

Having the developed world's most incompetent government lead by it's most inept leader was always going to end in disaster sooner or later, now Australia's responsibility shirking Prime Minister, Scott Morrison's fumbled Vaccine roll out disaster will have massive ramifications for the year to come. Hey, he doesn't hold a dose mate.

Christian Porter: The Disaster Artist

The latest episode of Christian Porter versus the World is the best yet, in a terrible few months for the ex-Australian Attorney General and one time anointed Liberal Party princling. Once touted as leader of the country, then outed by an iconic ABC expose into Liberal Party sexism and abuse of women - things got much worse from there with the accusation of the rape of a sixteen in 1988 and her recent suicide. Porter, supposedly the highest legal mind in the country, then decided to sue the ABC for defamation - how badly this just blew up in his face is a self own for the ages.

Why Wont You Let Kevin Spacey Live!

In another no doubt popular opinion - it's time to let the disgraced and cancelled Kevin Spacey back into the world (and why James Franco and Louis C.K. should never have been cancelled in the first  place).

Saint Glady Berejiklian, Joan of Arc, Queen of our Hearts

In light of the FriendlyJordies YouTube attack on the NSW Liberal leader and state premier, Gladys Berejiklian, a look at her unfathomable and disgraceful hero worship by Australia's slavish news media, despite being up to her neck in corruption. An affair/corruption scandal that would've instantly destroyed the career of any Labor politician hasn't left a mark on her spotless reputation. This apparently sacred cow is less a powerful, independent woman, more a personality free extra from The Handmaids Tale, with a woeful choice in friends.

Israel V Palestine: Part Four - Israel And America

The final in a four part series on the current Israel Palestine conflict. America has been Israel's never ending ally no matter what happens. A look at how toxic that relationship now is for proposed human rights champion Joe Biden, how the relationship is finally changing and why the biggest champions of the state of Israel are not American Jews but evangelical Christians.