Category: Australia

https://www.couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-qld/brisbane-political-activist-drew-pavlou-detained-in-uk-over-bomb-threats/news-story/bc8904553b17e5f49dfaef5287b97993 My daughter went out with Drew Pavlou for a while in her first year of university, or shagged him at least. Seeds don’t fall real far from trees. I thought Drew was a dickhead, although a well meaning one. How do you get from sitting outside an embassy waving a flag to threatening to […]

Well bugger me dead if I’m alive. They’ve done it! Against all odds – bookies Wayne ‘Itin’ Gannon and ‘Crying’ Brian Jorgenson were betting $101 – our indigenous elder friends and prominent racing identities Uncle Miltie Doyle and Uncle Horrie Flynn have felled the Captain! The cynics said that it would never happen, but it […]

A red headed reader from Tewantin with a huge passion for human rights spotted this above on the net and sent it in. Uncle Milty might well be on his traditional summer home of Straddie working furiously to find funding to house the great whale, but he obviously hasn’t forgotten the struggles in the north. […]

Uncle Milty is right. The Captain Cook statue outside the Cock and Bull pub in Cairns should be torn down and burned to a cinder, because the Captain was liar, a rogue and a thief. Cook said NSW and QLD were on the west coast of the continent. He must have been off his head […]

John Sheehan, known as Jack, was my great grandad. Jack died on the Western Front on Anzac Day 1918. His battalion saved England, and won the war. My great grandad was a hero. Tub thumping Tommy doesn’t think so. That’s because he’s not. With Anzac Day over, and the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign […]

Gee I am getting bloody old. This ad was around when I was a little kid. My generation were brought up with sort of sexism as the norm. It always made me feel uncomfortable, but back then kids from the working class burbs didn’t make waves, they just shut up and swam along with the […]