Putting the ‘fun’ in your own funeral
I’m at the age where my social calendar is made up of funerals. However, the more I see, the less I want the standard dour church fare for my own.
Sacking volunteer firefighters, limiting free speech: Who the bloody hell are we?
The alleged sacking of the RFS volunteer that swore at the PM is a fine example of the confused national identity present in Morrison’s Australia.
The heavily disputed (and nonsensical) history of Christmas
Christmas has many traditions, but the walk to the 2016 version has taken many a strange path over the history of the holiday.
Suicide has claimed twice as many soldiers as the Afghanistan conflict
According to a Defence report, since 2001 twice as many ADF veterans like myself have been lost to suicide than to armed conflict. Their new strategy seems too little, too late.
Did Nazi this coming? I did, on the bathroom walls of the nation
The rise of the common Australian white supremacist may have shocked many, but pro-nazi sentiment has long existed, anonymously carved on toilet doors.