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Less than 24 hours after the call went out on Twitter and Facebook for state capital rallies around the nation to voice support for Wikileak...

When TruthTellers Are Treated As Terrorists Australian journalist & publisher Julian Assange : "I am an Australian citizen and I mi...

Rock In Peace Pat Pickett A true legend of the body-breaking behind the scenes world of the Australian rock industry died early Friday m...

How About "All They Got Left Is A Bag Of Loose Change And Some Crisps"? News.com.au has the exclusive on the sorry state of Libera...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard in conversation with journalist Laurie Oakes : LO : There's a lot of talk about a lack of a vision in Labo...

Didn't cover much of it here due to extended break from blogging, but this piece from The Guardian, published in August, sums up the Aus...

The endangered Montana Merkle bears an uncanny similarity to the Australian kookaburra, even down to the "naturally occurring swastika ...

The first teaser trailer from the new Australian movie Fuck The War showing Dave Gleeson, singer with legendary Australian rockers The Screa...

Now, kneel before Zod. Photo by Gary Ramage, The Australian Still one of the greatest scenes in cinema. UPDATE : Zod, or BobCat as he'...

Researching the Australian conservative media campaign to rally support for the Iraq War back in 2002 - for onscreen quotes and the Notes s...

You ask one gay guy on Twitter why he isn't off raping rodents and look what happens : Via Mumbrella

Even the most psychotically pro-war conservatives now admit that civilian massacres by NATO, and NATO-allied troops, in Afghanistan are anyt...

I'm guessing most of you have already seen this newsimation of the lead-up to Federal Election 2010, but it's still the best vid I&#...

Here is the Federal Election 2010 campaign as I saw it on Twitter over the past five weeks : Outrageous. ABC1 cut short Superfreak by Rick J...

Federal Election 2010 : Who's Doing What Now? By Darryl Mason Oh, looks like I missed most of it. Anyway, I have no idea why the mainstr...

An afternoon sky over Sydney, August 2010. 2pm. 2.30pm 3pm 5pm 5.30pm

via @AndrewBolt : .

Murdoch Backs Gillard By Darryl Mason The Daily Telegraph ramps up the mockery of opposition leader Tony Abbott as the last week of the 2010...

"Mr Latham Helping Himself To A Cup Of Coffee" Nine surreal minutes of 24 hour live TV news, as a reporter reports on a reporter r...

A first look at The Screaming Jets' Dave Gleeson in FTW : Finishing the FTW (Fuck The War) movie is why it's been tomblike around...

It's the best ad of the Federal Election 2010 campaign, it's a shame the Greens can't use it : The ad was, however, seen by mor...

Another teaser for 'FTW', coming to DVD and download late October.

Wait, Are You Saying Jesus Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? Pro-reality ABC News would have you believe this never actually happened : The 's...

'FTW' : Coming to DVD and digital download late October.

Former Labor leader Mark Latham on PMLive , Sky News : "...the things you had to do to go through the motions of the standard political...

Price Of Bread To Rise By Two Carbons Two of the most recent attack ads of the Federal Election 2010 : Meh. Try Harder. The Liberal Party de...

Still some of the most sensible talk we've heard in years on Australian TV on asylum seekers and immigration. PJ O'Rourke on Q &...

As you may already be aware, The Chaser returns to the ABC tonight for the first of five new episodes covering the Federal Election 2010, a ...

Coming to DVD & download late October :

FireBomb Democracy Today on Andrew Bolt's blog of fevered hate and intolerance, an open, uncensored call to commit acts of terrorism in ...

Five Stars Crossing a review-style format with doco-reality TV is the best comedy idea to hit Australian TV screens since Alan Jones decided...

Does Tony Abbott Still Believe Bible Classes Should Be Compulsory For All Students? Opposition leader Tony Abbott, December 19, 2009 : &quo...

It's funny, because it's true : Effective political advertising :

The front page of The Australian online gets downright cognitively dissonant one day into Federal Election 2010 : "Labor has started t...

Some Sunday rock. The Screaming Jets doing AC/DC's Ain't No Fun (Waitin' 'Round To Be A Millionaire) live on a barge in Sydn...

Four of the top six most popular news stories of the week on the ABC News website are psychic octopus-related : So much for ABC News readers...

Standing Up, Moving Forward, Falling Asleep By Darryl Mason So here we go. Federal Election 2010 is on. Even though we don't actually vo...

The Australian, July 14 : Americans who are attending the annual conference (with Kevin Rudd) are curious. They wonder how it happened tha...

The Herald Sun on the culturally vital website Things Bogans Like : "...the best online port of call for the voice of bogan authority...

Kudos Kodos I keep hearing coup prime minister Julia Gillard using variants of this phrase : "We must move/go forwards, not backwards.&...

Movie News By Darryl Mason It's been a bit quiet around here for the past week or so because I've been finishing off a movie. It'...

Election advertising in Australia gets mega-mashed up :

Some Saturday tunes. Amazing. Redgum's John Schumann performing Cold Chisel's Khe Sahn : Not the lyric change from "teenage Chi...

Australia. So great it's even endorsed by The Kinks : How catchy is that? Why has this song, or parts of it, never been used for Austral...

Pretty cutting amateur satire : I've never linked to, or really watched, those Hitler Downfall parody vids. But this one about Kevin Ru...

So many, many swears :