Come The Revolution

Author: Alex Mitchell

  • Relocation of Powerhouse Museum enters deep water

    When the NSW government first proposed to transfer the Powerhouse Museum from Ultimo on the fringe of Darling Harbour to Parramatta in western Sydney it was greeted with widespread approval. To many citizens it made perfect sense to elevate public culture in the arts-starved western suburbs. Another point of attraction was the proposed funding arrangement:…

  • How long will Malcolm last?

    How long will Malcolm Turnbull last as prime minister? … Tony Abbott wants his old job back but Liberal MPs aren’t rallying … Australia’s sickening fiasco in Afghanistan … World’s newest nation becomes failed state … When Abbott talked up DIY terrorism … Rupert Murdoch’s slaughter of Fairfax … Great Crashing Bores continued … Prime Minister…

  • Hamilton Hume: Book Review

    Hamilton Hume The Life and Times of Our Greatest Explorer By Robert Macklin Hatchette Australia 2016 A comprehensive biography of the explorer Hamilton Hume is long overdue. His outstanding contribution to Australian history has been scandalously neglected: most versions of 19th century colonial exploration were written by supporters of the pro-British and pro-colonialist ascendancy. Hume’s…

  • Turnbull green lights war crimes

    Malcolm Turnbull green lights war crimes in Syria and Iraq … Helping hand for Brexit Britain? No! … Sexual depravity in Murdoch land … Remembering Richard Neville … Nick Xenophon’s Party redacted … Great Crashing Bores continued … When everything else fails, play the anti-terrorism card Australia’s armed forces have been given an expanded “licensed…

  • The coup in Brazil

    Impeachment of Brazil’s first female president masterminded by CIA … Coalition betrays marriage rights … Israeli journo gives verdict on Zionist state … Rupert Murdoch never changes … One Nation unredacted – Great Crashing Bores 11 continued … Coup in Brazil is bloodless … so far When the CIA launched its successful coup against the…

  • Plebiscite ducks the issue

    Cowardly MPs duck decision to legalise gay marriage … “Let the people decide”, but people have already decided, they are in favour!! … More taxpayer subsidies for rugby league louts … Lots of dosh for prisons too … Charting the submarine fiasco … NSW Greens unredacted … Great Bores continued …. MPs duck the issue…

  • State of nuclear secrecy

    South Australia: our first nuclear state … Nuclear-powered submarines to be followed by nuclear waste plant … Local government elections test for Coalition, Labor and Greens … NSW Labor Party unredacted … Henry Kissinger, war criminal … Great Bores continued … SA: State of nuclear secrecy Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Jay Weatherill seem…

  • Tony Abbott: rise of the living dead

    Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull haunted by spectre of Tony Abbott … ex-ABC chairman joins anti-Turnbull push … NSW Liberal Party unredacted … behind the census debacle … Why everyone’s sick of Jarryd Hayne … Street slayings encouraged by Manila’s “Duterte Harry” … Great Bores continued … Tony Abbott: Rise of the Living Dead When John…

  • Turnbull – a fumbling fizzer

    Prime Minister Turnbull on a hiding to nothing pursued by three zealots, Tony Abbott, Cory Bernardi and Kevin Rudd … UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn being pursued too – by avenging Blairites … Turkey torn apart by two autocrats, President Erdogan and religious intriguer, Fethullah Gulen … Great bores continued … Turnbull – a fumbling…

  • Baton change at Murdoch empire

    Baton change at Murdoch empire

    Rupert Murdoch takes voluntary redundancy at News …. Murdoch’s anti-beard psychosis explained … why his sons Lachlan and James have grown beards … the demise of Roger Ailes … Julie Bishop and Tanya Plibersek support Julia Gillard-destroyer Kevin Rudd … Great bores continued … Baton change at Murdoch empire Rupert Murdoch’s two sons, Lachlan and…