Michael Connor
Left win literary award - again
January 6, 2009
Richard Flanagan’s wild, environmentalist diatribe called “Out of Control” won the $15,000 John Curtin Prize for Journalism in the 2008 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Read more...At the Movies with Blecker and Nun
January 4, 2009
For years and years and years Blecker and Nun have bored their way through weakly [sic] TV programs of film criticism.
Read more...Obama in Hobart
January 2, 2009
Great News! On New Year’s day Global Warming was cured and the President Elect was sighted in Hobart.
Read more...Titanic Inc. buys Gitmo franchise
January 2, 2009
With emotion, though speaking falteringly in English, Kevin Rudd, the CEO of Titanic Inc, announced that the company has successfully purchased the franchise for Gitmo detonators in the Australasian region.
Read more...The "cursed generation"
December 29, 2008
According to reviewer Bernard Chapin author Roger L. Simon had second thoughts about the havoc his cursed generation bought upon the American people.
Read more...Tracey does Xmas
December 28, 2008
Caught up with Tracey after Christmas. Even though she is taking a well deserved break from researching her PhD in performing arts she was looking a bit frazzled. It can’t be easy being a checkout chick with a conservationist conscience giving out all those plastic bags and I know that Rudd's performance on the environment has been getting her a bit depressed lately.
Read more...Love among the ruins
December 27, 2008
Christmas is over. A splendid new year, well interesting anyway, stretches before us. But spare a thought for the unfortunate Left.
Read more...The ASIO tapes - Kevin Rudd
December 24, 2008
Kevin Rudd is the CEO of Titanic Inc. This confidential Report points to the source for his internationally acclaimed linguistic excellence and gives examples of his uncanny ability to descend to the level of his audience.
Read more...Tsunami warning
December 24, 2008
Thomas Sowell: The rise in unemployment after the stock market crash of 1929 was a blip on the screen compared to the soaring unemployment rates reached later, after a series of government interventions.
Read more...Buy that degree - NOW
December 23, 2008
One internet company writes the essays while students occupy themselves “focusing on more important things.” Sounds like a recession-proof business.
Read more...The worst poet in America
December 23, 2008
The President-Elect has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to read her poetry on Inauguration Day, 2009. Read and tremble.
Read more...Obama does plagiarism
December 22, 2008
I saw Simon the other day. He’s the novelist who lives in the granny flat at the back of Tracey’s. He’s mad with Obama and is thinking of suing him for plagiarism.
Read more...Bill of Rites Rules
December 22, 2008
Frank Brennan, Managing Director of Bill of Rights Pty Ltd, launched the company’s first promotional blimp from the Australian's head office in Murdochville. As it soared into the air Father Brennan gave a sermon on the mound.
Read more...Beckie graduates
December 21, 2008
Beckie has graduated from the local university. Her education there was an experience many of her generation have shared.
Read more...Yes, Arts Minister
December 21, 2008
If you thought political correctness was dying – think again. It's Peter Garrett's new hat in a career that could be the TV hit of 2009.
Read more...Peter Garrett - the soft warrior
December 20, 2008
Titanic Inc Arts Minister Peter Garrett: I have no hesitation in standing here, as a former practicing artist, and say the arts are inherently valuable; they are a public good.
WARNING: This is not a satire.
Read more...Baz does Gatsby - Zelda unbottles bender
December 20, 2008
Baz Luhrmann has acquired the rights to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Zelda was unavailable for comment.
Read more...Crims rule! - not OK
December 19, 2008
Christine Nixon is police commissioner of the Underbelly state. She is leaving her job. The state’s police force is not in the best condition.
Read more...Harmony Week goes Left
December 19, 2008
Angela Davis was in Australia to present the Chancellors’ Oration at Murdoch University and give some public lectures: “to speak about the ways racism infiltrates our institutions without us realising.” The Left applauded.
Read more...Titanic Inc. welcomes People Smugglers Inc.
December 18, 2008
This week Titanic Inc. welcomed People Smugglers Inc. into the Australian market and Australian waters. “Competition is good,” said Captain Rudd.
Read more...Australia - "the prosaic facts of history"
December 17, 2008
Ross Douthat at the National Review (December 15) has reviewed Baz Luhrmann’s movie of last week – Australia: The overall effect is Little Black Sambo by way of Dances with Wolves: The condescension is intended to be favorable, but it’s condescension all the same.
Professor Marcia Langton thinks differently.
Read more...The best books of 2008
December 16, 2008
Christmas is the time for looking back at the past year’s crop of books and choosing those which really stood out. Here is my personal selection of seven outstanding conservative non-fiction books published in Australia in 2008.
Read more...Titanic Inc. writes suicide note
December 16, 2008
Terry McCrann: Rudd becomes the first prime minister to specifically set out to make Australia and Australians poorer. Significantly and permanently.
Read more...Give Australia a Little Black Christmas
December 15, 2008
Education minister Julia Gillard could improve Australian education by forgetting about free Google machines and handing the kids copies of Mark Lopez’s The Little Black Schoolbook. While waiting for her to do so you might consider putting it on your own Christmas giving list.
Read more...Bill Muehlenberg
December 15, 2008
Bill Muehlenberg blogs on Quadrant Online. Bill Muehlenberg wrote a brilliant book.
Read more...Steyn Aid - Mark Steyn sings for World Peace
December 15, 2008
THE Mark Steyn has recorded a musical single for Christmas – A Marshmallow World. True.
Read more...Bernard Black - a profile
December 14, 2008
You know Bernard Black. Everyone knows Bernard. The writer you think of whenever the words “Australia’s Leading Indigenous Writer and a Living National Treasure” pop into your mind.
Read more...The Australian Conservative
December 14, 2008
The Australian Conservative goes places you don’t want to go and brings back treasures of Left stupidity, malice and lunacy. More importantly, it highlights the increasingly good comment to be found on Australia's dissident websites.
Read more...Bad movie, great review
December 13, 2008
Peter Suderman: Good blockbusters always show audiences something new, and here, you can't fault it: It's the first movie to feature a hive of enviro-socialist alien nano-goo as its villain.
Read more...Bill of Rights Pty. Ltd. appoints director
December 13, 2008
This week (while the opposition was holding their weekly Christmas party) Bill of Rights Pty. Ltd. announced the appointment of well known cultural entrepreneur Frank Brennan as Managing Director.
Read more...Titanic Inc. buys iceberg - crowd cheers
December 12, 2008
What a future for our country. Jobless, sitting at home amongst empty boxes and broken toys waiting for another Rudd cheque which may never arrive.
Read more...Killer Chic
December 12, 2008
The faces of killers Che and Mao sell jewellery, beer, food, tee-shirts and movies. A new online film, Killer Chic, removes the makeup.
Read more...The ASIO tapes - Terry Dix
December 11, 2008
Terry Dix is the host of a television current affairs program. He is the brother of the noted Fairfax journalist Dorothy Dix. Although it is said that Dix is an Anchor-For-Life this is not true – it just feels like it.
Read more...Quadrant exits closet and bakes cake
December 11, 2008
Quadrant - a magazine that lost its raison d’etre after the Cold War, and is a refuge for fruitcakes and closet racists.
[Note to Editor - Perhaps we should contact Louise Malaprop at SMUP and suggest a Quadrant Fruitcake and Biscuit Cookbook?]
The ASIO tapes - Louise Malaprop
December 10, 2008
Louise Malaprop is Director-For-Life of the South Melbourne University Press (SMUP). Mrs Malaprop is the wife of renowned actor and esteemed purveyor of charcuterie to the gentry Max Malaprop.
Read more...Wadeye is us
December 9, 2008
Over its lifetime Quadrant has published important essays which have had an impact on Australia’s public life. In the December issue Patrick McCauley’s essay, “Wadeye: Failed State as Cultural Triumph”, is such a work.
Read more...Shock news - Left tells truth
December 9, 2008
During the year there was a bloody prize-fight between Left and Left over the ghastly remains of Wilfred Burchett. Robert Manne said he smelt bad, others on the Left said he was perfumed like a red saint.
Read more...Titanic Inc. appoints Arts advisory panel
December 9, 2008
The Prime Minister’s 2020 Creative Australia was a weekend party which produced confusion, quite a lot of hot air, and a huge hangover.
Read more...Titanic Inc. gives cash to steerage class
December 9, 2008
Latest news from White Star head office in Canberra.
Read more...Money, money, money - Christmas '08
December 7, 2008
The auction was very interesting. There were a lot of first home buyers. It was held by a well known local firm and they began with a Welcome to Country ritual. Tracey said they get Arts funding to do it. At some auctions they even perform smoking ceremonies.
Read more...Why don't they get it?
December 5, 2008
Left blogs attract Left readers. Conservative blogs attract Right and Left. The comments pages on the blogs of Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtsen, Tim Blair and Piers Akerman etc are lively places. Phillip Adams’ blog is a cemetery with dull contributions from the typing dead.
Read more...Silly season begins early - in Canberra
December 5, 2008
“AUSTRALIAN universities are not controlled by left-wing academics hell bent on brainwashing students, a Senate inquiry has found.” News.com.au
Read more...I don't think like that anymore
December 5, 2008
Before, every time news of something awful broke, I used to say “Now, they’ll understand. Now they’ll get it.” They never did and I felt awful.
Read more...Whiteness Studies Uber Alles
December 4, 2008
Last week the Mumbai killers were asking who among their victims were British or American. This week Monash University is hosting the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association’s “Re-Orienting Whiteness Conference”. Connect the dots for yourself between foolish western academics with killing ideas and terrorists killing for ideas.
Actor bites audience - Is there a vet in the house?
December 4, 2008
It’s true, Left theatre even bores Left actors.
Read more...The academic publishing game
December 3, 2008
Earlier this year Henry Reynolds launched a new book of old history by Dr Ian McFarlane called Beyond Awakening, The Aboriginal Tribes of North West Tasmania: A History.
Read more...So this is cultural studies
December 2, 2008
“The beach remains the rallying ground of Anglo-Australia, the preserve of decent, wholesome white bodies, policed in a variety of ways against any contaminating whiff of “dirty wog” – and, by implication, even dirtier black – bodies.” Suvendrini Perera
Read more...Australiaphobia - the movie not by Baz Luhrmann
December 1, 2008
It starts with a revolving globe showing the Imperial Japanese Army heading for Australia with duty free stopovers in Hong Kong, Bali and Singapore and then it cuts to the tastefully naked lady aristocrat dancing under the Botox gusher she has just discovered in the desert.
Read more...On Spring Theatre
November 1, 2008
Free in Melbourne on a spring afternoon I went walking. Last time in Melbourne was mid-winter and the place was dirty and dull. It had recovered. In the capital of black I noticed an ecotourism travel company called Extragreen Holidays. Their advertising sign had the company name emblazoned across a very big jumbo jet.
On David Williamson
September 2, 2008
Behind me the ladies ate Maltesers, in a satirical manner, while talking of crumbling bones and ABC reruns of As Time Goes By.
Read more...The Follies Bizarre: Australia's political theatre
September 1, 2008
The hero of a Stephen Sewell play, and clearly his creator’s alter ego, says: “People change.
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