Archive for 'Satire'
John Passant is for sale on the international lecture circuit
Posted by John, October 26th, 2015 - under John Passant, Satire, Tony Abbott.
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With news that Tony Abbott has offered himself to the international talk circuit as one of the world’s greatest minds (minuses, surely) for only US$40,000, or about A$55,000, I think I will put my hand up for some gigs at half that price. But hurry, places are filling fast. Book John now.
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War criminal Obama wins peace prize – satire lives
Posted by John, October 9th, 2009 - under Barak Obama, Nobel peace prize, Satire.
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Barack Obama is a war criminal. He should be in leg irons before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Stalinism and the Public Service – the WHADWITYY B Principle
Posted by John, March 28th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Public Service, Satire, Stalinism.
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The public service is based on a Stalinist model. So says Professor Leonie Bronstein from the National University of Australia.
Crikey – have a go at this!
Posted by John, February 21st, 2009 - under Crikey, Poison Pen, Satire.
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Crikey’s Poison Pen wants to attack lefties as well as the usual right-wing ratbags. They name Manne and Adams as two possible candidates. Lefties? Those two? Oh dear! I have been trying to suggest they give my writings a bollocking but can’t for some reason post a comment on their site. If there are any […]
Cricket, crisis and creative destruction
Posted by John, February 5th, 2009 - under Cricket, Economics, Imperialism, Marxism, Satire.
Comments: 5
Just as the present economic crisis is not due to the usual business cycle but represents something much deeper, so too the decline of Australian cricket. The very basis of Australian cricket is under threat from internal and external forces.
Stalinism and the Australian Public Service
Posted by John, November 17th, 2008 - under Satire.
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Professor Leonie Bronstein is an acclaimed expert in Marxist behavioural analysis in a societal and organisational context. Her speciality is the Australian public service. I spoke to her recently at the National University of Australia and asked her what she was currently doing. “The Prime Minister funded a project for me last year on relational […]