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Adriana Xenides died today , aged 54 : Dan Ilic pays an appropriate tribute : UPDATE : The Daily Telegraph sticks in the knife, one last tim...

"We Will Decide Which Cetaceans Enter This Country, And The Manner In Which They Come!" By Darryl Mason Peter Garrett strikes out ...

Nothing's As Precious As A Hole In The Ground How many other lies, or 'exaggerations', have flowed from the mega-funded corporat...

It doesn't matter what you think, or what some damned blogger, or one of 900 commenters to a news story, or ten million Twitterers thin...

Satire always works better at getting the message across than doomery :

Compare. Two tourism ads using scenery, song and smiling, happy people. The new Australian tourism ad : The Iceland tourism ad : Inspired by...

Hush Little Kevvy, Don't Say A Word.... Annabel Crabb wonders, both seriously and satirically , whether prime minister Kevin Rudd is su...

Any Porn To Declare? Australian Customs officials are now scoring free porn from the hard drives of Australians returning from overseas holi...

In the headline to a story about NSW premier Keneally's free flight upgrades, the International Business Times gives the premier the bi...

Not A Public Holiday, Yet Under the watchful eye of the ABC interpretive dance bandicoot, rehearsals are underway for tomorrow's NABIADD...

David Marr sums up just about everything you need to know about the supershouty fiasco of yesterday's, and most of the rest of this week...

Hey Boltadamus! Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! By Darryl Mason Murdoch tabloid journalist, and Liberal Party Yoda, Andrew Bolt, likes t...

A Dreamtime story :

Still one of the most powerful public health ads ever aired in Australia. It's jarring to see this ad again, 23 years after its was firs...

How the fashion industry proves that Free Can Equal Profits & Success ; Fascinating. And inspiring. (via @MoreOj )

Praying To The Digital Gods By @DarrylMason The Australian takes its column inches hogging obsession with the iPad to hilarious extremes: Ho...

Stories I've Been Reading : "The 'Body-Swapping' Effect Was So Convincing That The Men's Sense Of Self Was Transferred...

RoboPessimism : First Use Of The Word Robot Involved Robots Wiping Out Humanity A simple but visually compelling, fact-rich example of a mod...

And the Baby Boomers thought they were the rock n roll generation. Check out some of their mums and dads going off to the Bay City Rollers (...

"Yeah, I Was Trapped In The Beaconsfield Mine For A Few Weeks" Brant Webb is running for the seat of Bass in Northern Tasmania and...

Majority 33% Of People Prefer To Read Awesomely Distorted Polls Bad news for the Gillard Gushers. A new Daily Telegraph polls reveals only 1...

The Chaser on Kevin Rudd, three years ago : Maybe Kevin needs a theme song? It worked for Gough Whitlam (he was a pre-internet, pre-colour T...

The Drum reader Koesonya explains how to be The Opposition : - Australia didn't sink in the GFC : Thanks to the Howard years. - Govt ca...

Murdoch's Pot Of News Gold By Darryl Mason Front page from the only newspaper in Australia I would pay to read online, The Northern Terr...

The Late Show, in the early 90s, saw the future : The state of Australian wogomedy, 2010, international distribution and a chunky location b...

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was longer and wider than a football field. It sits at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, after explosions...

Federal Election 2010 : Free Buckets Of Fear & Paranoia For All The Liberal Party may have John Singleton about to start churning out &#...

A very, very effective first Federal Election 2010 campaign ad from opposition leader Tony Abbott : But there's something about one part...

Rodent Rogered By Darryl Mason Miranda Devine, September 3, 2009 : "A surfeit of self-love is almost a prerequisite for success now, an...

How Australia's 5th Richest Man Is Trying To Fuck With Your Mind By Darryl Mason It's like watching Jabba The Hut channeling Glenn B...

Yes, I am recycling posts & links from my Twitter feed and trying to pass it off as fresh blog content, but only for your weekend ligh...

On April 30, Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, published the transcript of a short debate she had with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on...

Why Australians Say "I'll Kick Your Arse" Instead Of "I'll Kick Your Ass" Piers explains all why in Crikey : Fo...

RuddRagers thought they had found and noted and ranted and whined about every last fault they could or would ever possibly think of when it ...

Charlie Brooker on why the contestants for Britain's Next Prime Minister seem so hollow : Two-faced contempt is the basic mode of opera...

Looks like this John Clarke and Brian Dawe bit is circulating online as a real current affairs interview, starring an Australian politician ...

Nipples = Clickbait Back in the 1970s, Rupert Murdoch's mum put her foot down and refused to let her son publish topless pics in his Au...

Stories I've Been Reading : New Scientist : Adverse Reactions To Australian 'Triple Flu' Vaccine Seen In Less Than 0.5% Of Vacc...