Like a raving mad homeless man on a city corner, this week McClintock is screaming about big issues. Although, in truth, he barely discuss them at all. ***** The Big Issues As Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski said, “I got issues, man.” Or was it “a rash”? Perhaps it was both. Nevertheless, this country has issues,…
Read More TPA’s Election Analysis: Week Three – The Big IssuesWe’re a land of the ‘fair go’ in Australia. Whether you just read that in a Samuel-Johnson-Secret-Life-Of-Us voice, or a VB-advertisement-voice, it’s likely this is your truth. And although our country’s egalitarianism has more holes in it than a Panama Papers shell company, it’s still our prevailing identity. That’s right, in Australia the only laws…
Read More In the Salary Cap of Sporting Emotion, Queensland are Rampant CheatsI recently penned a piece about the joyous relief of letting one’s self devolve into a bile-spitting drunken lunatic during State of Origin, and indeed argued that it was perhaps a necessary outlet for your (and your family’s) ongoing survival. Well now, two games in and with the series effectively over, I’m experiencing the come-down.…
Read More Why I Fucking Hate OriginI am a passive man. Simple, in a way. Am I Simply the Best? No, but I needed to reference that somewhere in this article. Yet come this time of year, I begin to feel my testosterone rising – and the desire to witness some form of athletic brutality becomes almost too much to bear.…
Read More Why I Fucking Love OriginMalcolm Norman Meninga is an Australian icon. A legendary goal-kicking centre that dominated all three tiers of professional rugby league; a hairy, muscle-bound warhorse of the pre-metrosexual era. But the Origin doyen’s stinging attack on the NSWRL, labelling the organisation hierarchy as “filth and rats”, was a verbal tirade unmatched in rugby league history. And…
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