Current Affairs

People still think of Bon Scott when they think of AC/DC. He should not be forgotten, of course, nor his earlier work, like My Old Man’s a Groovy Old Man, with the Valentines. But Brian Johnson…

Excitement builds to fever pitch as the FIFA Women’s World Cup gets underway… The FIFA Women’s World Cup takes place every four years. This is the year, so it is also the year of incessant whining…

Ridly Scott’s historical movies always need to be taken with a grain of salt. I love Gladiator, but as a history lesson, no. Kingdom of Heaven was dire, both as a movie and as history. Alien…

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Linda Burney has made emotional appeals for Australians to agree to the Voice, a constitutionally enshrined extra body of representation for people of a particular race, on the basis that this will…

The article below is from Spectator Australia. Too important not to read. Do the right thing and visit the Speccie. If you find it interesting, subscribe. You will disagree with some of the articles, but you…

My brother Andrew has a mortgage broking business in Ipswich, Queensland. He has lived in Ipswich for more than forty years and knows local property, real estate agents, and banks. He is a hard-working and genuinely…

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer dissented from the recent Court decision that a Christian web designer cannot be forced to create websites for gay marriages. “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history,…

World Bosses As at the current patch (1.0.4.42942), there are three major world bosses in Diablo 4: Although these bosses have their preferred location, any of them can spawn at any of the following places: Caen…

Maybe think again. You have to have an Instagram account to sign in to Threads. If you then decide you want to cancel your Threads account, the Facebook/Threads/Instagram umbrella corporation will only allow you to do…

Disney had a go at the Narnia stories several years ago. The first movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe didn’t really have a heart. Despite this, Lucy was lovely, and the movie wasn’t bad…

Variations of this image have been posted on social media many times. Yet Western countries continue to import people whose cultural values are simply incompatible with notions of equality, rule of law, freedom of religion, etc.…

This Spotify playlist – New Rock Royalty – is a collection of newish rock, featuring Australia’s hottest new Band, Two Times Shy. It is updated every week or so, is safe for family and work, and…

I keep seeing people posting on social media that they have been hacked. Hacked is when someone gets into your account without your permission, and can post and change settings. This can happen, but it is…

I went for a seven kilometre run yesterday afternoon at a nearby conservation park. I took this photo of the Brisbane River from the Moggill ferry on the way home.

I don’t watch much commercial TV, but my Dad is staying with us for a few weeks, and he likes to watch the news. Last night I saw for the first time one of the taxpayer…