Month: May 2026

The Mysteries Of Coaching AFL

26 May 2026 11 hrs

In contravention of the AFL media’s obsession with star players, the art of coaching demands so much more than a roster of stars. Indeed, the mysteries of coaching AFL are on display for all to see throughout the season. Why is one team so good and another side so bad? The talking heads would like to make it all about the talent of the players in each squad but that is decidedly not the exclusive reason for success. In truth, the athletes playing AFL at this level are all very good, which is why they ended up on a playing list at an AFL club. Most of these young men have been playing footy for much of their short lives. They are remarkably talented with ball skills and have honed their physical endurance in readiness for the big leap to AFL standard.

Culture Fresh Media News Sport

22 May 2026 5 dys

Support For One Nation

6 May 2026 3 weeks

Weak Leaders Follow The Power Elite

by Clio

26 May 2026 11 hrs

The Mysteries Of Coaching AFL

Culture Fresh Media News Sport

by Clio

22 May 2026 5 dys

Support For One Nation

Here is an interesting fact. Support for One Nation is highest in areas where there are relatively few migrants living. Regional areas and outer suburban electorates, where the vast majority of populations are white bread. Why then do they go on about the issue of high levels of immigration in Australia? It is not actual lived experience. Could it be because they watch Sky News Australia and listen to reactionary shock jocks on the radio? Blaming immigrants, refugees and foreigners, more generally, is a right wing populist saw. Combine this with a general underlying racism inherited down through generations and you probably get what is really going on here. Pauline Hanson has been banging on about her white supremacist views for decades and now has Gina Rinehart to bankroll her hate speech infected perspective downunder.

Culture Economics Fresh Government Politics Power

by Clio

6 May 2026 3 weeks

Weak Leaders Follow The Power Elite

PM Anthony Albanese was never going to stand up to the gas industry downunder. Weak leaders follow the power elite. They are content to see inequity and inequality flourish in this time of zombie neoliberalism. Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned or so the story goes. Governments do little these days but talk and let the markets run the show to the detriment of the working poor. We have a severe housing crisis and it is not getting any better. What is the government doing about it? Talking about it, but talk is cheap. They are not actually getting their hands dirty and getting into the game by building houses themselves. No, they are ineffectually encouraging private interests to do something about the housing crisis. The figures do not stack up in terms of meeting the challenge of new housing stock being built at the required rate.

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Episode 26: Why Copying America Is Bad - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

Robert Sudha HamiltonWhat can we learn from the current political situation in America? Further to that, what ramifications does that potentially have for Australians? There is no denying that Australia tends to follow the United States in terms of business trends and culturally to some extent. Pauline Hanson Loves TrumpAustralia likes to copy the US and especially those on the Right. Former PM Tony Abbott, who sold the Port of Darwin to the Chinese, is a big fan of One Nation.American multinationals like Uber and McDonalds avoid paying their fair share of corporate tax in Australia by shifting their profits to tax havens via dubious IP charges to associated entities. You can see a pattern here, where American companies don’t want to pay taxes and pay their workers and subcontractors as little as possible. This is the America they are exporting to Australia and which Pauline Hanson is so enamoured of. Pauline Hanson loves Trump.The fast food sector is economically predicated upon young adults not being paid proper wages for their work. The gig economy, likewise, has delivery drivers and riders, often, not earning the minimum hourly rate, whilst risking their own vehicles at their own expense. These sectors are exploiting workers for the benefit of share holders and consumers. America promotes dog eat dog, zero sum games for the benefit of the wealthy.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

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Why do AFL clubs spend years at the bottom of the ladder? Why do their members and supporters have to suffer for years rather than months? Think about the fortunes of North Melbourne over the last 6 years...

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24 May

Populism of the Far Right variety is not some natural occurrence or trend happening at the moment. It is an artificially fed and funded campaign coming from the United States and billionaire money...

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22 May

Here is an interesting fact. Support for One Nation is highest in areas where there are relatively few migrants living. Regional areas and outer suburban electorates...

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20 May

We need to break up these big companies and bust their monopolies and oligopolies. Capitalism only works effectively for all when there is real competition in the marketplaces. Right now, this doesn’t exist in Australia...