It’s a Long Way to the Top, if You Want to Wed Nicole
Just ask Keith Urban. Or his hairdresser. I wonder why Slim hasn’t got the striped stonewash jeans on? I guess he’s just keeping it all under his hat.
We Have Mozart in Our Midst – He’s From Redfern
His music won’t be to everyone’s taste, nor his language, and he seems to be off his head on drugs almost all of the time, but the kid in the picture above sang the song below at the same time when the photo was taken, when he was 14. The Kid Laroi didn’t just sing […]
Lauren Jackson is a Great Australian – I’d Love to Have Her Next to Me in the Trench
Let’s be honest, Lauren Jackson would never have come back to basketball at age 41 if Liz Cambage hadn’t let the Opals and her and our country down. But she did, in the most un-Australian of ways, and her departure – or more correctly, her ejection after the rejection – left the Opals coming into […]
See You in Xanadu Livvie
A Little of the Real Australia, and a Whole Lash of Racing and Sport
Gary Crocker may well be one of South Australia’s richest men, and carrying a six-figure wad from the sale of his star older pacer Adam Crocker to the United States, but the weight of the jumping jack flash hasn’t weighed down his passion for the trots, and the preservation of sporting history. Bruce McAvaney has […]
I Wonder What They Talked About?
Jeffrey and Ghislaine came to Aussie town, and dined on a transport titan’s boat. They liked boats that pair. And transport, particularly of the private kind. What do you reckon James Packer was doing hanging out with the pedo KIng and Queen of the world? What did they had in common with Lindsay Fox, so […]
Hooper’s Cat Act and His Coach’s Support of It Show Exactly Why the Wallabies are a Basket Case
You’re in the trench at Gallipoli. The sun has gone down and the Turks have retreated to their bunker for the night. You know they are coming again in the morning. The Major in charge your Anzac Troops suddenly stands up and says “My mind is night right for this battle boys. I am bailing […]
Drew Pavlou Might Be a Young Dickhead, But Weren’t We All Once – He is Just a Well Meaning Aussie Kid, and I Can Personally Assure You That He is No Terrorist
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 […]
The Greatest Piece of Australian Art Ever Painted
NO MORE BOOMERANG No more boomerang No more spear; Now alll civilized- Colour bar and beer. No more corroboree, Gay dance and din. Now we got movies, And pay to go in. No more sharing What the hunter brings. Now we work for money, Then pay it back for things. Now we track bosses To […]
The Captain is Cactus – And it Was Our Uncles Miltie and Horrie Who Cooked Him
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 […]