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Bury Your Bananas Mike O'Neil on the latest attack by a rogue elephant on the New South Wales north coast : Boulton Close resident Billy...

"Journalists Suing Journalists....Is Graceless & Weird" In follow-up to this post about the downright sad and pathetic legal b...

Tim Blair Vs Crikey : Stupid Blog War Now Wasting NSW Supreme Court's Time By Darryl Mason Apparently he decided to only go after those ...

Iraq and Afghanistan war correspondent Paul McGeough poses a question : Australia is occupied by a foreign power and you join the resistan...

Coming to Australian cinemas, June 1 : Air Supply as a key theme song for this "gritty" Australian movie? Really?

I Smoke, And I Vote Murray Clapham, a director of the Victor Chang Foundation, writing in the Jakarta Post : ''The real argument i...

I have no idea whether or not these skit-style VicRoads ads will help reduce death tolls and car accidents, but they're pretty funny and...

The Mitchell Library , in Sydney, one of Australia's most beautiful and historically important buildings, is now welcoming virtual visit...

I must admit, Harold Hulk and George Bush were two of my favourite prime presidents of Australia as well. This harmless vid sparked a gusher...

Labor, state and federal, are extremely worried about The Greens, and their ever-growing popularity. The anti-Greens campaigning by Labor, i...

Incredible : Donald Ritchie, who has lived opposite The Gap for nearly 50 years, has shown what can be done when you have the chance to int...

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Photos By Darryl Mason

The Northern Territory News always delivers : Aliens could be the latest to weigh in on the nuclear waste storage debate after UFOs were spo...

"We Know What You Are Against, Now Tell Us What You Are For" It's hard to see this as some kind of prelude to war. Gone is the...

He Really Liked Peter Costello The glory days of the influential, hard drinking, extremely well paid political journalist are over. Glenn Mi...

Democracy Hater By Darryl Mason How much does Rupert Murdoch's most prominent Australian opinionist, Andrew Bolt, hate democracy? So muc...

One of the first movies to be filmed in Australia is believed to have been made as a "Fuck You!" to the early international movie-...

@ TwitterHype Politicians are calling Federal Election 2010 'The Twitter Election', apparently : Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming to...

From imagery by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, twin tropical cyclones over the South Pacific on March 15: (click to enlarge) More On...

Two Believers In Old Superstitions Battle For Leadership Of Australia What in all fuck? Kevin Rudd has taken on his arch-rival Tony Abbott o...

Baby Monkeys Wonder Why They're No Longer The Cutest If Mr Shuffles dies suddenly, or even worse, gets sick and dies slowly, there will...

Tony Abbott is continuing to use the term "All hat and no cowboy" to describe prime minister Kevin Rudd. So I'll repeat what I...

"They Think I'm A Fucking Dickhead! I'm Fucking Not!" The return of the angry, angry, angry Australian. Warning, this audi...

Two year old Cohen Stone, from Perth, has achieved international fame the easy way, by crawling inside a lolly machine and getting stuck. ...

New Zealand : It's There For The Taking We cannot wait for New Zealand to become a threat to Australia's national security. They vig...

Heart Full Of Hate Miranda Devine, yesterday : "....the internet has made it possible for people to express that hate before their bet...

There's not a lot of tourist attractions around Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia. But there is a decorated termite mound : Photo by Elio...

This radio ad from the UK takes Australia's old "Alert, But Not Alarmed" campaign into disturbing new realms of suburban paran...

The Daily Telegraph : Are there really "respected Australian psychics"? And if so, why doesn't the Daily Telegraph get rid of ...

Shot At Overnight Fame Flames Out Contrary to popular belief, publicist Max Markson cannot sell any old shit to Today Tonight for a suitcas...

ABC Blinded By "GroupThink" Claims Chairman ABC chairman Maurice Newman on why he believes the Australia media in general, and to ...

She Finds Your Lack Of Faith In Her Faith Disturbing : .

But What Kind Of Truth Is It? I'll be talking on ABC radio at 1.30pm (Sydney time) about popularity of 9/11 conspiracies and the America...

Apparently, deputy prime minister Julia Gillard excites the same sort of weird fantasies amongst middle-aged conservative men as Margaret &q...

The Daily Telegraph online, still classy : Or to put it another way : 4 Out of 5 Modern Women Mostly Trust Their Men With Shared Finances So...

Andrew Bolt, the soon-to-be easy listening morning radio host, thinks this is representative of the "predatory gay" : Even though ...

This brilliant tilt-shift vid by ZebraFive was " constructed from over 9000 stills shot on location around Sydney using a Canon EOS 5D...

Tony Abbott : It's Time For Big Business To Share The Wealth Around By Darryl Mason Tony Abbott on paid maternity leave, July 2002 : &qu...

You may feel sorry for the journalists, but the Fall Of Newspapers is set to claim many victims, least of all obsessive-compulsive newspaper...

Welcome To Melbourne Photo from The Voxel Agents A roundup of the freak Melbourne storm , from ABC News Melbourne HQ, with the great shot o...

Brilliant digital artist Monomauve has 'detooned' Mr Monty Burns. The Full Ex-ell-ent Image Is Here Of course Australians have know...

Juli-aaaaaahhhhh By Darryl Mason Liberal Party activists Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt get started on their campaign to seed division in the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald headline promises to reveal "The Dark Side" of a missing Australian nuclear scientist. So what have the...

Weaponised Fruit As you may have already heard, British prime minister Gordon Brown has a temper of Ruddian proportions. But new reports kee...

@Tara_Moss asks is this the 'Headline Typo Of The Year?' It may be Typo Of The Decade : However, the story is good news. The Royal...

Fox News = Quality Geography THR notices Fox News is still struggling with its geographic disability : It's not the first time Fox New...

Poodle-Kitty spotted in Erskineville :

Northern Territory : Fish Fall From The Sky Twice in 2 Days Local : "Thank God It Didn't Rain Crocodiles!" grab from photo by ...