The Mocker

The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.

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Lock down of Housing Commission towers in the inner city suburbs of North Melbourne. Adam Bandt. Picture: Tim Carrafa

Bandt’s cause for concern written in pencil

The Greens leader has been so busy virtue preening he’s failed to notice his party sliding towards irrelevance.

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The ABC's Tahlea Aualiitia - with her named spelled incorrectly. Source: Twitter

The ABC of agonising at the ABC

ABC chair Ita Buttrose says budget cuts are ‘unsustainable. So why pay the likes of Tahlea Aualiitia to indulge in spelling error self-pity?

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Anti-racist bullying of Colonial brewer is cowardly hypocrisy

The confected outrage of Australian Black Lives Matter activists over Western Australia-based Colonial Brewing Co’s brand name is truly ridiculous.

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Low angle view of bronze statue Captain James Cook, The explorer, by sculptor Thomas Woolner 1879 in Hyde Park Sydney Australia, against blue sky, full frame horizontal composition with copy space. For: Where, why and when in 2020. Credit: Istock

Statue of limitations as the left sifts history

Who’d qualify now? Those who cite the toppling of statues as a great moment for historians refuse to accept an uneasy reality: the pasts of their heroes may be similarly murky.

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Demonstrators attend a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protestors in Melbourne on June 6, 2020 and demand an end to frequent Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia. - Tens of thousands of Australians defied government calls to stay at home on June 6, spilling onto the streets for Black Lives Matter protests in major towns and cities across the country. (Photo by Con Chronis / AFP)

Church of the Woke: check facts first, not privilege

Setting buildings alight, looting, and bashing the innocent seems counter-productive to fighting discrimination. Apparently, whiteness constrains my perspective.

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TOPSHOT - Demonstrators smash a police vehicle in the Fairfax District as they protest the death of George Floyd, in Los Angeles, California on May 30, 2020. - Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP)

Left’s useful idiots carry torch for Antifa

There is a disturbing wilful blindness toward, and romanticising of, the violent activist group among left-wing commentators in Australia.

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Pictured writer Clementine Ford from her Facebook page. Picture posted May 17 2019. https://www.facebook.com/clementineford/photos/pb.597441976999567.-2207520000.1558246016./2237518589658556/?type=3&theaterToday is #IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia. .I can't remember the first time I realised I was attracted to women as well as men, but I do remember it becoming a "known known" and me feeling a sense of shame about that throughout my adolescence. It seemed pretty clear when I was in high school that there was only one excuse allowed for a girl to kiss another girl, and that was if a boy or boys were watching. (SPOILER: No one wanted to kiss me, boy or girl 🤷).Even after I began openly embracing my bisexuality at uni, I battled a lot of internalised biphobia. There, people used to joke about LUGs - lesbian until graduation - and I feared maybe this was me. I often felt like I wasn't allowed to call myself anything other than straight because if I was dating men too then wasn't that kind of cheating on the whole identity thing?.It's been a long road from there to here, and I credit and give love to the incredible people I've gained knowledge from along the way. Sexuality is fixed for some people and for others it's very fluid. At 37, I just know what I know and that is that I'm in love with love..I fall in love with cool people and funny people and serious people and smart people and kind people. I'm attracted to all kinds of folk (some of them completely wrong for me and A Bad Idea and a guaranteed way to end up crying into a pillow and listening to Beth Orton on repeat but what's life without a little heartbreak?). It doesn't matter what their gender is and it never will. Who knows, maybe I'm just a #thirstybitch 💅 (JK I know bisexuality isn't about wanting everyone all the time don't @ me).We still live in an intensely queerphobic word but I'm so glad that young LGBTQI people today get to see themselves reflected in pop culture and the media, in books and art and in others who are willing to stand up and be counted. I didn't really know where to look for any queer role models when I was growing up, but maybe I can be that now for someone else. .To my gay, bisexual, intersex and trans friends and followers. I see you. I love you. I celebrate you. There's nowt so queer as folk, and fuck aren't I glad for that!.🌈🦄❤️💛💚💜🖤🧡🦄🌈

How about a toxic feminism course?

Clementine Ford won’t lose grant money after her tweets. A course in detoxifying feminism would be a worthier project.

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Media Watch host Paul Barry and actress Noni Hazlehurst.

History rewritten by the whiners

While the luvvies claim they are the victim of a culture war, the truth is they occupy a gigantic safe space from which they can publicly disparage their ideological enemies.

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Young men and women working in call centre. Must credit Thinkstock

Grammar gripes, call centres and hills to ponder dying on

Forget coronavirus, lockdowns and the duplicity of the Chinese government, there are petty and silly issues at hand. Just don’t get me started on the ‘food experience’.

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Pink paint is seen covering the head of the James Cook statue in St Kilda, Melbourne, Thursday, January 25. 2018. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Spare us virus of cultural commissars

Was it unreasonable to expect Captain Cook’s critics to refrain from denigrating him on his 250th anniversary? Sadly, it was.

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