Cyclist Ben Kersten after the attack by a mo Read more »
Cyclist Ben Kersten after the attack by a mo Read more »
The Indian 20-20 cricket scene is surely unprecedented in the annals of this rather stuffy sport. We might as well be in Yankee stadium!
When the Olympic Torch made its brief stop over for a run around the block in Canberra last week, Australia’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials gushed about the “values of the Olympic movement”, coupled with some tsk-tsking about pesky protestors ‘hijacking’ that movement for their political agendas. Read more »
It will take years - possibly decades - for the wickedness of the Howard Government to loosen its grip on Australian society. And it is our young brightest minds, our ‘future’ who are paying the highest price. Read more »
The Olympic torch relay has provided so much innocent fun for students of the irony of modern life that it’s difficult to know how to describe it all. Read more »
I'm in two minds about the Olympics and the politicisation of them this year. Read more »
“Olympism”.
Andrew Bartlett dissects for us the official goals of the “Olympic movement”: Read more »
The dense booklet, which was overseen by former prime minister John Howard, describes the uses of the stump-jump plough, the emergence of the Heidelberg school of art, the location of Phar Lap’s heart and depicts Australia’s first governor, Captain Arthur Phillip, as “firm but humane”. Read more »
Clicking on the smh homepage this morning and what do I see? Read more »
Discussion starter - Bernard Keane in Crikey:
China’s Foreign Ministry have warned against protests in Canberra because the torch “belongs to the whole world”. That the corrupt thugs who run China (latest effort – dispatching a boatload of weapons to fellow despot Bob Mugabe) object to expressions of dissent even in other countries is no surprise. But let’s get over this fetishisation of the Olympics. Read more »
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