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Sydney Swans Flop Off The Bye At The Gabba

by Clio

26 June 2026 19 hrs

Sydney Swans Flop Off The Bye At The Gabba

The Sydney Swans flop off the bye at the Gabba under fierce Lion’s pressure. Personally, I hate the bye and always have as a Swan’s fan. Too many times the team fails to fire after a week off. The Swans looked soft on this Thursday night featured contest with last year’s premiers. Brody Grundy gifted Brisbane goal scoring opportunities out of the centre 4 times on the night. These free kicks for crossing the line at the ball up are huge penalties to pay for this indiscretion, especially when advantage is taken and opposing players steal out the front of the centre square toward their goal.

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The Idealisation Of The Past Is A Never Land

by Clio

22 June 2026 5 dys

The Idealisation Of The Past Is A Never Land

You know a lot of the apparent support for One Nation comes from older white Australians. Pauline Hanson and her campaign machine promote the idea that things were better back in the day. This right wing idealisation of the past, of there being some sort of golden age, is nothing new. Fascists in Hitler’s era promoted the concept of the pure German who lived during a bucolic time of yesteryear. Romanticising the past appeals to older folk especially. Contrasting it with the present and focusing on negative stuff like urban crime and demonising special interest groups plays well with this audience. Hitler and the Nazis attacked the immorality of the Weimar Republic, which won them electoral support from conservate Germans. Pauline Hanson attacks Muslims, refugees and immigrants, as all things bad for Australia. The idealisation of the past is a never land, in that it never really existed the way they say it did.

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by Clio

17 June 2026 1 week

White Supremacist Beliefs & Racism

Whilst watching a documentary about Nazism and fascism in America back in the 1930s, my ears were pricked by the repeated expressions ‘ make America great’ and ‘one nation’! The modern day use of these terms as names and tag lines are by no means accidental. The white supremacist beliefs and racism, which lie at the base of MAGA and One Nation, in the US and Australia respectively, are the foundation of these movements and political parties. If you have read DH Lawrence’s book Kangaroo or seen the movie based upon it, you will know that Australia was not immune from the rise of fascism post WW1.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

25 Jun

In Australia, we are discovering that the sudden popularity of One Nation is not some weird organic thing but rather has been force fed via a funded avalanche of AI fake news crafted in Vietnam.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

22 Jun

Pauline Hanson has spent decades claiming victimhood status for herself and those she supposedly represents. Hanson is now worth millions and boasts backing from billionaires. Her claim to represent the little Aussie battler is a sham

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21 Jun

51.5% of the Australian population were either not born here or their parents weren’t. Despite this, Pauline Hanson wants an end to multiculturalism and a return to a white, Anglo-monoculture...

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19 Jun

It is hard to imagine a better symbol or analogy for Trump’s presidency than the mess with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC. Trump’s reflecting pool reality as metaphor captures the crud and corruption...