tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293967162024-03-07T19:47:15.722+11:00The OrstrahyunReadership - 2.5 million (April 2014)
www.twitter.com/darrylmasonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1987125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-81572571596533472362024-01-21T13:50:00.000+11:002024-01-21T13:50:06.025+11:00Rupert Murdoch Was Sent To Oxford University In 1950 To Dodge Australian Military Service Rupert Murdoch Was Sent To Oxford University In 1950 To Dodge Australian Military ServiceSydney Tribune, June, 1950: "Wealthy press monopolist Sir Keith Murdoch,who urges through his chain of newspapers the sending of her people's sons to die in Malaya for monopoly profits and the crushing of national independence, is taking his own son Rupert to England to be enrolled at Oxford Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-36256913673793140662023-12-23T00:13:00.000+11:002023-12-23T00:13:00.387+11:00Magpie In Wakki Records Studio Photo By Darryl Mason Magpies hung around Wakki Studios at Wakki Beach, New South Wales, so often they ended up singing on songs. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-76946675806922662732023-12-23T00:10:00.003+11:002023-12-23T00:10:43.594+11:00Green Turtle Tracks At DawnPhoto By Darryl Mason Green turtle tracks at dawn. Photo by Darryl MasonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-45798065539525524502023-12-23T00:06:00.004+11:002023-12-23T00:06:31.644+11:00Never Get Out Of The BoatNorthern Territory, 2008. Still have nightmares about my boot sinking into that mud and the mud not letting go, felt like it was pulling me in, holding me in place for Mr Chompy there.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-90118418800544123532022-07-29T20:43:00.003+10:002022-07-29T20:45:27.993+10:00Angus In The Outback - A.I. Art by Darryl MasonBy Darryl Mason'Angus In The Outback' began as a fun prompt on the first A.I. Art software I got to trial in 2020. I liked the idea of a painter like Sidney Nolan or Brett Whiteley being inspired to capture such an Australian icon in the stunning landscapes of this country. Every new A.I. Art software I got to test or trial, I used the same prompt to see what this algorithmic compiler of newUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-24387277226946685482020-02-28T15:22:00.003+11:002020-02-28T15:22:38.821+11:00MARCH 1789 BREAKING NEWS ABOUT 1788: 40 DEAD IN EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAYBy Darryl Mason
In images below, you will find the first lengthy newspaper report published in London, in March 1789, of the First Fleet arriving in Botany Bay in January, 1788. Scattered across other early 1789 issues of the Times of London are letters, editorials, blasting the sending of "slaves to New Holland." Debate raged on whether it was right or wrong to participate in the "white slave Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-77009141718098959052020-02-22T22:50:00.000+11:002020-02-26T18:39:07.469+11:00A Guide To The Australian Pandemic - The Last One And This One
What To Expect In An Australian Pandemic: Villages, Towns, Cities Quarantined...Churches, Schools, Workplaces Shut Down...Social Chaos...Food And Medical Shortages...Normal Life Ceases...100,000+ Australians Dead...Mobile Healthcheck Teams...Die In Your Homes
By Darryl Mason
Tony Abbott was Australia's Health Minister when Avian Flu threatened to become a global pandemic, in late 2005. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-58963053127139432212020-02-19T22:14:00.003+11:002020-02-19T22:32:01.450+11:00Twitter Flashback: 2010 - The Age Newspaper Sacks "Outrageous" Columnist Over Logies TweetsTwitter Flashback.
THE AGE NEWSPAPER FIRES MOST POPULAR COLUMNIST BECAUSE SHE UPSET RUPERT MURDOCH'S THUGS AND GOONS
May, 2010: The Melbourne Age newspaper has fired one of Australia's most successful comediasn for using her Twitter feed to snark hard on the Logie Awards, and its participants.
Dullards and wankstains from 2GB, 3AW and crimelord Rupert Murdoch's Herald Sun, Daily Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-6817900946730302832019-05-06T20:29:00.000+10:002020-02-28T00:18:12.163+11:00Old Media Rages Against Twitter Raging Against The Election
'Why Are You Yelling At Me On Social Media When I'm Only Trying To Wind You Up And Make You React Angrily So I Can Report How Abusive You Are?'
By Darryl Mason
It was inevitable Australia's Old Media and social media, primarily Twitter, would reach end-game territory around a federal election.
That election appears to this one, Federal Election 2019.
It's been a bit grim seeing Old Media'sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-47496844994215958812017-06-07T11:48:00.000+10:002020-02-23T02:15:47.935+11:00Freedom Of Fire Sparks Back Into LifeUPDATED and expanded early 2020:
27 years after the infamously unknown experimental Australian band Freedom Of Fire (FoF) publicly burned the master recordings of their debut album 'The Internet Is A Fad' and disappeared, the outfit is quietly releasing 'new' albums, remixes and EPs on YouTube, Facebook and Soundcloud. These releases have appeared and disappeared online during the past 6 or Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-43422775497115154822017-06-07T11:32:00.000+10:002020-03-18T13:21:29.795+11:00Australian Music Is Rising Again
New Australian musician and singer, Rhyme. On the rise.
UPDATE, March, 2020: After a string of songs, DJing, remixes and experimental videos in the past few five years, catching attention but not big audiences, and getting near the point of 'Why Do I Keep Doing This?' Rhyme is now breaking through, with this video, hitting 1 million views in its first week of release.
Awesome.
PREVIOUS: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-9513208005041019582015-06-04T14:52:00.004+10:002015-06-04T14:52:40.047+10:00Another World War For Australia?
Australian, American and Chinese soldiers training together in the Northern Territory, in early May 2015
World War II, Korea, even the Vietnam wars were all long ago. (Mostly due to reporting restrictions) even the Iraq and Afghanistan wars seem in the distant past, for Australians. Whole generations have passed since Australia last deployed tens of thousands of troops at a time to an Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-80272949301583358082015-03-23T02:39:00.000+11:002015-03-23T02:39:24.849+11:00"We're Being Governed By Idiots"'Victory Day' front pages like this just look downright ridiculous now:
The Abbott Government disaster/fiasco (take your pick) drags on and on and on. The Australian Financial Review's Laura Tingle in absolutely scathing form:
"we don't seem to quite be
able to take in the growing realisation that we actually are being
governed by idiots and fools, or that this actually has real-world
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-85144975264888275392015-03-23T02:21:00.001+11:002015-03-23T02:27:32.381+11:00When Australians Would Pose The Dead For Trophy Shots
Wonder what the kid in the photo below thought years later about being
present for the trophy photo shoot of a dead member of the Kelly Gang?
Today, a child being present when terrorists pose corpses for photos is deemed a foul and disgusting outrage, which, of course, it is. But there's something just so casual and everyday about the people in the photo you get the sense this was not Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-45957372796714658412014-11-29T16:47:00.000+11:002020-02-28T00:24:18.819+11:00Angus Young On His Brother Malcolm's 7 Year Long Fight With Dementia
Angus Young on his brother Malcolm's dementia is devastating:
“Malcolm was always very organised. And it was kind of strange for the first time to see him
disorganised, being confused about a lot of things. That’s when it kind
of hit me — there’s something not right with him.“
I thought that at times it was not Malcolm with me. He
would say at the time: ‘I have good days Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-49825676175678136862014-11-15T05:52:00.000+11:002014-11-15T05:53:45.485+11:00Angus Young Reveals His Brother Malcolm Has Been Suffering Symptoms Of Dementia Since 2008
By Darryl Mason
In one of the most personal interviews he's ever given, AC/DC's Angus Young has opened up about his brother Malcolm, now in a Sydney care facility suffering from dementia.
"It's something that had actually been happening for a long time,"
Angus Young told Rolling Stone magazine, meaning Malcolm's lapses in concentration and ability to remember riffs he'd Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-61840809730317690392014-11-07T06:29:00.001+11:002014-11-07T17:21:12.708+11:00Highway To Hell For Phil Rudd, AC/DC Slammed For "Cold" Response To Bad News
UPDATE: Incredibly, New Zealand police have now decided they made a mistake charging Phil Rudd with attempting to procure a murder, and have dropped the charge.
Rudd's lawyer, Mr Mabey, stated: "I was advised by the Crown Solicitor Hollister-Jones
that he had reviewed the police file and the available evidence to
support the charge of attempting to procure murder. He had Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-50442179895516318052014-10-24T18:00:00.001+11:002014-10-24T18:00:15.695+11:00WHAT WAS HE THINKING? PM Abbott Instructs Terrorists Where To Strike
Tony Abbott, Parliament, October 2014 (image via Twitter)
Australia still hasn't suffered a terrorist attack on our soil, and everybody agrees that is both fortunate and a very good thing indeed. But in the wake of a 'lone wolf' attack on Canada's parliament, PM Tony Abbott has been ramping up The Fear, with his near constant curious smirk, trumpeting, 'We Could Be Next.'
This Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-5518467446709234112014-10-24T17:32:00.000+11:002014-10-24T17:32:26.900+11:00Gough Whitlam - The Dismissal LettersThe two most important documents of The Dismissal of Australia's Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, in 1975.
The letter from Governor General John Kerr:
Gough Whitlam's response:
More Goughdocs Here Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-73458240777183805982014-10-21T16:44:00.000+11:002014-10-21T16:47:54.442+11:00The Death Of Gough Whitlam
By Darryl Mason
I always liked that Gough Whitlam had his plan to transform Australia and dived straight in the day he was elected and just went for it, not caring if it cost him a second term as prime minister (it didn't, at least until the Dismissal). He wanted to radically transform Australia, its laws, society and people, and he did. Nothing his critics and loathers can say today will Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-53291183488661109902014-09-26T00:46:00.001+10:002014-09-26T00:46:28.628+10:00The Screaming Jets Plan To Record, Rush Release New Album For Mid-October
Dave Gleeson, 2011. Photo By Darryl Mason
A few days after finishing shows for The Angels 40th anniversary, lead singer Dave Gleeson has rejoined his bandmates from The Screaming Jets in the recording studio to lay down a new album.
The plan, right now, is to record and rush release the new album, Atomic 47, in time for The Screaming Jets 25th anniversary national tour.
Most of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-54422033972771246652014-09-24T23:54:00.003+10:002014-09-26T18:16:34.406+10:00AC/DC's New Album 'Rock Or Bust' Out Late November, Malcolm Young Officially Retires
Angus Young, fan Mathew Nagra, Stevie Young, May 2014 via AC/DCBrasil.net
By Darryl Mason
UPDATE: A good source says this is the track list for AC/DC's new album 'Rock Or Bust':
1. Play Ball
2. Sign of The Times
3. Ain't The Way
4. Rock or Bust
5. Done Her Good
6. Steal My Meal
7. Watching Games
8. Cardhouse Blues
9. Bulletride
10. Rumble
11. Back in The Zone
Following up from Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-68852659120166069562014-07-10T10:03:00.001+10:002014-07-10T10:05:04.769+10:00AC/DC Finish New Album, Malcolm Young In Hospital
By Darryl Mason
You
may now call him Dr Rock, but AC/DC’s lead singer Brian Johnson had
even bigger news when he picked his Doctorate in Music from Northumbria
University, in his hometown of Newcastle, England:
The new AC/DC studio
album is finished.
Earlier
this year, rumours swamped the world’s media that AC/DC were finished,
after news leaked that rhythm guitarist and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-36621846919726560872014-06-04T14:22:00.002+10:002020-02-28T00:21:26.485+11:00THE LEGEND IS GONE - RIP DOC NEESON
Photo of Doc Neeson by Tony Mott
Doc Neeson is gone. It's still hard to believe he was ultimately mortal, but of course he was.
He was kind, generous, vulnerable, and he suffered more for his art - the music and theatre of The Angels - than most so-called artists ever will. He physically suffered for his art, being knocked unconscious by crowd-lobbed missiles more than once, shattered knees,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29396716.post-33320641445665776712014-06-02T12:44:00.001+10:002014-06-02T16:51:00.093+10:00Turnbull: Bolt Is "Unhinged" And "Demented"
The Herald Sun is now trying to recast extremist Andrew Bolt as a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. Good luck
By Darryl Mason
Finally, Malcolm Turnbull has said out loud what I've been writing here on this blog for almost eight years.
Murdoch's Andrew Bolt is "unhinged" and "demented."
Tell us something we don't know.
Turnbull:
“...it borders on the demented to string together a
dinnerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com