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The Republican Commemorative Bucket

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The Hobart Mercury, 20 November 2010

My theory on the monarchy in Australia is that everyone thinks that there are people who want Australia to be a monarchy, but in fact nobody actually does want Australia to be a monarchy. I base this on the premise that it is inconceivable that anyone could actually want Australia to be a monarchy. Eventually we’ll realise that it was all just a few people taking the piss, and immediately become a republic.

If people think that this is ruining all the monarchists’ fun, then bear in mind that I do not concede that any monarchists exist.

It is quite a poor theory I’ll admit (the bucket helps a bit) but if you don’t like it, feel free to stick your head in a bucket.

Grit your teeth and think of England

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The Australian, 18 November 2010

In my theoretical filing cabinet (I do in fact own a filing cabinet, though I struggle with the filing part) I file “royalty” right next to “religion” in that I don’t really mind if people hold a self-evidently irrational belief in a superior being (or beings if that’s their thing) as long as they don’t go on and on about it. Sadly the not going on and on about it part may be in scant supply over the next nine or so months.

Hand me my oxygen mask

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The Australian, 16 November 2010

I don’t know about everybody else, but the assertion that Qantas’ recent string of  “incidents” are entirely unrelated with one another is less rather than more reassuring.

NSFW (if you work at a bank)

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The Australian 29 October 2010

The great economist Joe Hockey once said “give me a lever long enough and strong enough, and I’ll stick it so far up the banks that the experience ceases to be pleasurable for them”. Now we all know that this is rank populism, not because we wouldn’t all love to see a Bank CEO Kebab, but because we all know that if Joe ever does become treasurer, he’ll fall back on Wayne’s plan of being Very Cross when the banks do whatever they bloody well like, because, well, they can.

The Australian 4 November 2010