Takeaways From The Biggest Loser Week 3: A Treadmill Is Not A Psychologist
This week we begin with the contestants rolling around in mud (obviously) in a dehumanising…More
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Muslim Bashing: The Facts That Didn’t Get In The Way Of An Appalling Story
Fairfax journalist Rachel Olding is at it again. Writing about Muslims, that is, with predictable…More
The Joke’s On The NSA: Edward Snowden’s Cheeky Twitter Entrance
Millions of words have been published about you. You’ve seen yourself lionised and smeared, labelled…More
Bauer’s Supermarket Magazines Are A Public Health Hazard
News of the October closure of Zoo Weekly magazine will cheer anyone who values equality…More
Takeaways From The Biggest Loser: Week 2, How To Lose Weight AND Develop An Eating Disorder!
According to our sources [at www.google.com], approximately 600,000 viewers tuned in to each episode of…More
Takeaways From The Biggest Loser: Week 1, The First Step To Weight Loss Is Hating Yourself
No seriously. We need to talk about The Biggest Loser. It’s in its ninth season,…More
What Cory Bernardi Learned From Four Corners: Five Takeaways From Their Halal Investigation
There was a good deal of hype leading up to Four Corners this week, as…More
His Own Private Jihad: Joe Hildebrand Calls For War On Syria
As a general rule, Australians don’t trust our media. This is presumably for the sensible…More
Shock Jock Therapy: The Unacknowledged Public Service Of Alan Jones And Ray Hadley
Now and again we all need to get issues off our chest. We might drink…More
Shoot The Messenger? I Can Think Of Far Better Ways To Kill Mark Latham
There are some ‘facts’ that are incontrovertible. For instance, the earth is not flat. It’s…More