Category Archive: AUSTRALIANIA
ERN – Australia’s Greatest Hoax
Festival Theatre, Adelaide, 25 June 2021 First, the back story. The Ern Malley affair is Australia’s most famous literary hoax. Max Harris was a precocious Adelaide poet who edited Angry Penguins, a literary review in the style of the Wyndham Lewis-inspired Blast from several decades before. A couple of traditional poets, Harold Stewart and James McAuley, on a slow day in 1943 at the Melbourne barracks where they were stationed, fabricated a brief folio of poems by an obscure artist, Ern Malley, who had died tragically at the age of 25. Imitating the modernist poetry they despised, the hoaxers wrote…
Continue Reading →I Did But See Her Passing By
Glenelg v North Adelaide, Glenelg Oval, Queen’s Birthday, Monday 14 June 2021 A gloomy, blustery but dry day at the Bay, for the Queen’s Men (i.e. Us) to take on the feisty North Adelaide Roosters, before a holiday crowd of nearly 4,000. North were up and about and threw a lot of pressure at the Tigers, and led by 3 half way through the 2nd quarter. But the Bays steadied and rattled on the next 5 and led by about a goal at half time. The holy trinity – Liam McBean, Marlon Motlop and Luke Reynolds – had a big…
Continue Reading →ABC Classic Shall Not be Shot
The ABC (Australian Bolshevik Corporation) uses a lot of the nation’s money to fund its anti-Australian, anti-conservative, anti-rational stances. TVC, if charged with the nation’s finances, would probably cut its funding by about 80%, assuming we couldn’t just break it up and sell it off. What would stay? Well, Sean Micallef’s Mad as Hell, Tom Gleeson’s Hard Quiz, Behind the News, Parliament and we suppose the news could stay, but only if it were the news written and read by James Dibble. And further, ABC Radio could stay. ABC Radio, despite its manifest Marxist destiny and predilections, is consistently better…
Continue Reading →Weekend Regained
A fine footballing couple of days, one in which defeat stared closely at us but in which the Glenelg Football Club dug deep to find the riches of victory and regain a lost weekend: Glenelg v West Adelaide (SANFL Womens Grand Final) May 5, 2021; Glenelg v Norwood at Norwood Oval, May 6, 2021. THE GRAND FINAL The Glenelg Ladies’ Team [Can one still say ladies? – Ed.] took on tough opponent West in the Grand Final at Thebarton Oval, looking far more picturesque than we remembered it. The Women’s competition seems entirely admirable: the players are tough and committed, and…
Continue Reading →All Making It Up as They Go
(With apologies to Blaise Cendrars’ “The Captain is a Terrific Guy”) All the same the P.M.’s a terrific guy Yesterday he had a quarantine hub set up just for me Today without much word and simply to please the Victorian Gangsters and their running dogs He swung the plane around And skirted New Zealand’s bubble so closely I could have almost seen the New…
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