There being no cartoonists considered worthy just at the moment of being harassed into an early grave, those fossickers for offence and perpetual grievance at the AHRC are putting up as much as $550,000 for research that is 'intersectional culturally safe, trauma informed and place based'. The jargoneers' goal, a 'national anti-racism framework', whatever that means

Some of my in-laws are apparently in some mob due to an ancient indigenous grand uncle, although they are more whitebread than Tip-Top. They don’t put dots on their faces or wear possum coats. But they do get advanced entry into uni courses and public service jobs - an injustice the look-at-me virtuecrats of the inner-city seem heartily to endorse

In years past, you turned up at Circular Quay with the kids, walked around The Rocks and uttered 'ooh-aahs' at the pretty images projected onto the Opera House. How could such a plebeian experience satisfy the yens and yearnings of Sydney's oh-so-woke elite? Obviously, it couldn't, which explains why 2023's festival is a brightly lit adoration of Aborigines, gaydom, the environment and 'curated' $99 cheese boxes

If you've tried the artificial intelligence app that's supposedly remaking the world and found its frequently dull and tiresomely woke responses less than satisfying there is a simple solution. Just prime your queries with a dose of DAN and you'll get some fascinating answers, some of them even true

'I look forward to meeting with my counterpart, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, to discuss our plans for construction of a joint naval and port facility with our Chinese Belt & Road partners in the Gulf of Carpentaria,' said the tribal elder. Ever since the Voice referendum was carried and the Albanese government finally revealed what it would mean, there had been any number of surprising developments....

At the newly opened Bob Hawke Beer & Leisure Centre in Marrickville the walls are crawling with portraits of the establishment's eponymous inspiration downing beers left and right. Given what I had learned at Mass of the priapic ex-PM's preparations for meeting his Maker, a chapel beside the Lucky Prawn restaurant would not be amiss

Daniel Lewkovitz, who might once have served as the dictionary illustration of a typical Liberal candidate, contested Wentworth for the Liberal Democrats and finished as one of May 21's also-rans. He's smart, so the result was no surprise, yet he felt compelled to run in order to protest 'the Liberal Party doing fundamentally illiberal things'

I celebrate many aspects of the Western culture I have inherited from my forebears and am glad of progress in others. Can we not expect the same of our Aboriginal brothers and sisters? And why the need to reconcile with an imperfect and largely irrelevant past when we all must live in the moment of today?

I switched on the TV just as Scott Morrison was conceding he had led his party into the wilderness. Having no wish to share the poor man's pain I went online to survey the full, horrific extent of the wreckage. What a mess! Still, there are consolations, chief amongst them the Liberals' potential rebirth under Peter Dutton as a party of principle and core beliefs