So… I’ve come up to Mildura for a few days and have just ventured out of my hotel in search of dinner. Given that I’m in town, I thought I’d pop into the Mildura Brewery, which is owned by Broo, whom I’ve been writing about on this blog recently. A sign on the door says …
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Broo, Craft Breweries and Beer Generally
About a decade ago, my best friend invited me along to one of his family functions, at which event his rather bogan brother-in-law totally surprised me. It turns out that this bloke is quite the connoisseur when it comes to craft beer, and was in the habit of visiting many micro breweries around suburban Melbourne …
Bye Bye Bernie: But Matthew Guy is not off the hook….
The Hon Bernie Finn MLC, my longstanding upper house state Liberal MP, got expelled this week from the state parliamentary Liberal Party. Ostensibly, his recent social media utterances about potential US Supreme Court developments on the issue of reversing long standing case law (Roe Vs Wade) on abortion were the last straw for the state …
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Wither The Liberal Party?
I love the nuance of the English language, the only language I really feel comfortable writing in. I can speak Italian well enough, and I can struggle along to mostly comprehend (and occasionally actually enjoy) some limited Latin (written of course), but English is the only language in which I feel confident to fully express …
Democracy Sausage Sizzle Fizzle
Whilst I am habitually much more interested in politics than the average person (the average person currently needs to significantly lift their game in order to preserve our democracy), I recently decided very reluctantly after weighing up many salient concerns that my obligations for civic duty towards our democracy would be better served by me …
Top Gun 2 – Why Bother Now?
You won’t see any F-14 Tomcats on static display outside US Naval Bases or in aviation museums. It is a shame as they were beautiful planes to watch flying, as evidenced in that 1986 classic movie Top Gun. That is because, after they were all retired, they were shredded into very small pieces of scrap, …
How to create Housing Affordability: The Nuclear (or Austrian?) Option
Where do I start to write about how to salvage the Great Australian Dream for most of my friends and the next generation? Do I start with a much younger me, too arrogant to know my own financial ignorance, but very very very lucky? Or is it about interest rates, and how we all were …
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Allegro Non Troppo Part 4: How Woke are the Teal Candidates?
I would love to consider myself a protest voter these days, given I am rather skeptical about the sincerity or general decency of the current government, and have never been particularly enamoured of the current opposition, much as Albo seems, on the surface at least, to be authentic and (formerly) cuddly. However, living out in …
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Who cares about French Submarines: We need French Scuba Divers. Right Now!
The news that a Communist Chinese naval vessel with surveillance facilities has been sailing in international waters (albeit part of our exclusive economic zone) not far off the coast of Australia near to some of our more sensitive naval facilities has been greeted with the proper expressions of horror by our Defence Minister, Lord Voldemort. …
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Contemporary Cargo Cults in the Pacific
I like a good cargo cult. Last April, at the time of the sad demise of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, I wrote at length about how he had his own cargo cult in Vanuatu, The Prince Philip Movement, which worshipped him as a god. (I do hope that they have chosen one of …
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