The Orstrahyun

A Christmas Story Short Fiction by Darryl Mason "Is he okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happene...

You Can Be Seditious As Hell, But You Can't Call For Violence Is there such a thing as a Psychological Terror Attack? Not yet, but mayb...

Media Gets The Horn : New "Killer" Drug Scare Has Potential Expect to see more headlines like that in 2009, centred around the dru...

The Minister For Rock By Darryl Mason Peter Garrett did not have a good year. He spent far too much time looking weak and fear-grinning his ...

"We'll Use Your Teenage Moments Of Racist Stupidity Against You, Later" The intention to stop racism may be solid, but it'...

Lessons For Kev : Comedy Is Tragedy, Plus Time...Try A Few Years Worth Dr Death hits the Afghanistan war zone and serves up the blackest of ...

A huge, free piece of public art unfolds on a drab corner in Drummoyne, at the foot of the Bridge. Renowned Australian graffiti artist Sytak...

The Eye On The Pole Catches All If you can't drive fast through city traffic, then what the hell is the point of being a cop? Nearly fo...

A December Moon.

Now This, This Is Pain For my American readers, imagine running full speed straight at your friend, who is also running full speed at you, ...

You Better Get Used To It The Professional Idiot sinks deeper by the day into wild-eyed, foamy hysteria as the true reality darkly dawns tha...

'Funniest Home Videos' Distributes Child Abuse Imagery According to this story it does : Police say it is a crime for anyone to even...

Too High, Too Happy For Violence An interesting paradigm for our times. Do journalists not see the link here, or are they not allowed to dr...

Porn, Rape, Sex, Incest, UFOs, Sorry Can you tell much, if anything, about Australians by the news stories they read online? The Top 100 Mos...

Violent Pleasures What exactly is the Daily Telegraph's Piers Akerman trying to say here? How can the social cost of alcohol-fuelled v...

Saving Lives Or Wasting Your Money? Police and drug dogs were out in force at the HomeBake Festival. They made plenty of arrests, mostly dr...

"Why Does It Have To Be Morning?" Doc Neeson, in videos like the one below for Face The Day (the paranoid speed freak's lament...

Beer Banned In Bourke It may be necessary , but it just sounds so downright UnOrstrahyun : A violent NSW country town that is drowning in br...

Be Very Careful Who You Poke In The Eye Being an idiot on the piss in front of your mates can be extremely dangerous : A soldier bit a poli...

"I'm Weird In The Head....Sometimes" I haven't spent as much time as I'd hoped on digging through my old archives of t...

God : "Stupid Humans, Brains The Size Of Grapefruits And They Think They Know What I've Got Planned For Them" How many other A...

Murdoch 'The Fake Conservative' Pals Around With Hollywood Liberals, And Likes It Rupert Murdoch does what he is told by the women i...

Yes, even more New Zealand photos. This will end soon, I promise. All photos by Darryl Mason

Beat My Tilt Julia Gillard lays down the supreme challenge for all future head tilters : (screengrab from an online front page photo in The...

The Last Days Of The Booze-Soaked Politician How overdue is this? Very : A push was last night under way to breathtest NSW politicians aft...