🤣 Yep!! "I'm not far-right, I'm just normal!" they insist, while calling a tax-and-spend centrist "literally Stalin." Then a genuine far-leftie shows up chanting "eat the rich" and nationalise everything. Boom—heads explode like ideological popcorn. The Overton window needs a bigger...

Nah....The real radicals are the ones who think $10 avo on toast is a human right and the ones who want to solve inflation by yelling at clouds. The rest of us are just trying to keep the barbie lit and the country vaguely functional. True blue moderates, reporting in!!

FWIW most people on the Australian politics thread aren't even what I would regard as left-wing.... The opinions expressed are predominantly sensible centrist viewpoints. Which is probably the same viewpoints as 80% of Australians would have.

Well said..

Not much in the way of railway links in that vicinity either... Just a 'busway'... If you're asking international tourists to come to Australia for an Olympic Games and aren't providing world class rail links then you're setting yourself up for failure, or at the very least, some very unhappy...

Don't forget Prince Harry and his missus.. .🤣

Good post.... Whoever thought that the Gabba cricket ground would have suited an Olympic Stadium with all it's required and associated infrastructure must have been a touch deluded... The initial thinking was pragmatic on paper. Taking an existing major venue in a central-ish location (with...

Selective political outrage... Evolutionary psychology plays in here and you get status-seeking celebs broadcasting their virtues to earn applause from their reference group. However, it’s not unique to the elites because most people exhibit selective outrage in their own little way, but fame...

The problem with Craig Foster is he's just too much of a hardened on leftie.... It's all very good being an activist but when that activism is a one directional collectivist framing, with all the emphasis on systemic Australian/Western failings, and this one way solidarity with the marginalised...

Sorry to hear that too mate. I've got two friends who are both in recovery right now and my brother-in-law has a rare 'slow-burn' cancer that cannot be cured. It's a shocking disease.

From this mornings Times newspaper....

I'm not a Liverpool fan but today I'm absolutely gutted.... Earlier this week I was reading about Kevin Keegan’s battle with cancer and in this mornings Daily Record it has a headline about Kenny Dalglish's battle with cancer!!

Overall, I think the partnership between A-Leagues and P+ has been mutually beneficial..... Paramount+ gained a reliable live sports driver for subscribers, while the A-Leagues got better exposure and record streaming audiences. It might not be beating peppa pig on the old fashioned FTA but...

I agree. Almost everyone I talk to rolls their eyes when you mention the Olympics....

I saw the reports on tv the next day. It seemed a little overdone.

The most prominent recent example was that 2022 Australia Cup Final against Macarthur FC. A minority of those United fans were caught on camera doing Nazi/fascist salutes. And chanting "Za dom spremni"..... Also booing the Welcome to Country thing. All the sort of things the mainstream...

As I said earlier Australia tends to get more right than wrong.

I get that. Maybe because im a non-Australian who is right into the vast cultural dimensions of football I tend fund interest in thingslike a club's cultural background.

Media perception for one. I sometimes think some media outlets will always find a negative angle when it comes to Sydney United.

Good post. All good points.

Sydney United are a great club too but there's one or two minor issues that could well go against them getting an A League licence...

Unique in comparison to existing A League clubs perhaps?

On my Le Foot blog this week we look at newly promoted to Ligue Un Le Mans FC and their renaissance from bankruptcy 13 years ago.. https://footballuslife.blogspot.com/2026/06/la-renaissance-du-le-mans-fc.html?m=1 Following the liquidation in 2013, the club lost its professional status and...

On my Le Foot blog this week we look at newly promoted to Ligue Un Le Mans FC and their renaissance from bankruptcy 13 years ago.. https://footballuslife.blogspot.com/2026/06/la-renaissance-du-le-mans-fc.html?m=1 Following the liquidation in 2013, the club lost its professional status and...

The A-League has spent two decades creating new brands, some very successfully. However, South Melbourne offers something that cannot be manufactured – over 65 years of football history, generations of supporters, and a recognised identity within Australian football..... Many clubs around the...

Or for the likes of laughing boy Sharkman Australia could just stop immigrants arriving and let the birth rate decline continue and reset to the days of 17-18 million.... A "stop the boats and let nature take its course" reset!! Australia tried low-migration phases before. They delivered...

There's a good chance someone said exactly what you said in 1824.... And in 1924.... Imagine an Australia that's big in every sense: economically powerhouse, culturally vibrant, geopolitically weighty in the Indo-Pacific, and innovative on the world stage. A country that rejects small...

While it can be quite a poltically charged topic of debate, I'm generally a fan of the 'Big Australia' concept and it's population growth... Population growth foundational to Australia's economic success story and powered largely by skilled migration – a powerful engine for prosperity...

You could say, perhaps that One Nation has matured since the 1998 Queensland chaos. They now hold stable Senate seats and won their first federal lower house seat in 2026. However, the party remains heavily personalised around Hanson, with ongoing risks of poor discipline and candidate...

One thing that's becoming increasingly obvious though is after Labor’s strong 2025 federal victory, many Australians, especially in Queensland feel spooked by broken-promise perceptions, negative gearing tweaks, high migration, and slow cost-of-living relief. One Nation has surged to 31%...

That's a fair point. Preferential voting doesn't magically turn a party on 5% into a seat winner. To benefit from preferences, a party first has to survive long enough to reach the final two candidates in a seat. The reason analysts focus on seat conversion, though, is that national vote share...

Also.... I was out on Saturday night, sitting in a bar in Brisbane's West End district with a few friends looking around at the crowd. The place was packed with people from all sorts of backgrounds and nationalities. It struck me just how much Brisbane has changed over the past few decades...

The hate Arteta’s Arsenal gets is the ultimate backhanded compliment. Nobody wastes this much energy hating a team that is irrelevant..... People hate Arsenal right now because they are incredibly disruptive. They don't play the role of the "entertaining, fragile Arsenal" that the rest of the...

Yep.....It’s one of the classic paradoxes of modern populist politics, and you see it play out not just with One Nation, but globally. When you look at the actual policy platform of parties like Pauline Hanson's One Nation, there is often a massive disconnect between the rhetoric and the...

This post exemplifies the elitist "beautiful game" fallacy. KK claims that true elite clubs never compromise their style and would always "have a go," dismissively labeling Arsenal’s structural pragmatism as a sign of an inferior team. Writing off Arsenal’s rise as a temporary fluke aided by...

If I was the FA and had sold 43,000 tickets for the women's FA Cup final I'd have given away 10,000 mother/daughter or parent/daughter tickets to London school kids which might have added another 20,000 to the crowd.... It's a huge occasion for the women's game and the two teams deserve toplay...

The key question is whether this support can be converted into House of Representatives seats, where Australia's preferential voting system matters more than national vote share. If the trend continues, One Nation could either force the Coalition to adopt more of its policies or potentially...

That's a terrible post on the reading of modern elite football. So Arsenal aren’t as good as PSG, but that doesn’t make them wholly inferior. They’re just . . . different. They excel in other areas, the less eyecatching ones. And just as Mikel Arteta would yearn to have some of PSG’s talents...