Olympics
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The cost of the Paris Olympics will never be known, but whatever it might be the French taxpayer will foot the bill
September 1, 2024
9 mins
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I'm glad we no longer have laws against blasphemy, because the law is such a blunt instrument that it cannot readily discern the secrets of the heart. I think it's true that if any aspect of Islam had been parodied in the Olympics opener, even accidentally, a fatwa could follow and those responsible might have paid dearly. Christians should be glad that, by and large, we can take such things on the chin
August 21, 2024
5 mins
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If, as Plibersek claims, Raygun 'gave her all', she was clearly not up to the standard required to represent this nation at the elite level, regardless of whether or not she was the best we had. And by the way, Tanya, Steven Bradbury won gold because he made it to the final in a gruelling, highly competitive sport. Please don’t lump him in with a kangaroo-hopper
August 17, 2024
3 mins
The latest
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Perhaps I am being too harsh because, like Raygun, I have been kept awake at night by the 'significant gap in scholarship on hip-hop, breakdancing, and autoethnographic explorations of Deleuze-Guattarian theory'. The World Economic Forum, surprisingly, hasn’t cottoned on to this yet, so she is is filling a big gap
August 15, 2024
6 mins