tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post2797392194069095306..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: The Australia Jessica Knows BestBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-46226689108867370852012-01-28T11:39:27.328+11:002012-01-28T11:39:27.328+11:00Glad you laid into the pricks of the Pravda-on the...Glad you laid into the pricks of the Pravda-on the Yarra and the Silly Moaning Herald so comprehensively.<br /> Love your work<br /><br />PS Gerard Henderson's Media Watch Dog is also worth a read as he tries to keep some of the B's honest,and also has a sharp wit that his Insider's alias lacks!!Jazzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-27698879089694539642012-01-28T08:07:20.486+11:002012-01-28T08:07:20.486+11:00What does it mean to be Australian? A favourite qu...What does it mean to be Australian? A favourite question from the chatterati who have taken over the public discourse but seem to have no idea. It’s trotted out whenever our country, our people, are to be devalued. To be Australian means (or used to) you’re the progeny and beneficiary of a society made up largely of decent folk, neither too rich and up themselves nor too poor to maintain that decency. It means you live in an amazing place with a huge variety of landscapes, with natural wealth, with abundant agriculture, fishing and (formerly) enough productive occupations to give most people a go at the decent life. <br />Our heritage was mostly that of the British Isles until after WW2, when more varieties of European people arrived. Even the small, flat, dusty town I grew up in had a lot of different migrant types, who all made their contribution to the town and were local identities, as were the aboriginals or partial ones. They certainly weren’t running up and down the streets at all hours of the night, nor to be found drunk in the parks or on the river banks.<br />Schools taught and reinforced decency along with the maths, grammar, literature and science.<br />The ABC was a respected organization that brought news and entertainment to all parts of the far-flung country's populace. The years have seen increased worldliness and “sophistication” in the media and in the population. Mistakes have been made, including too extended drinking hours, and too much gambling. To some, like Clover Moore, no number of cute little hole-in-the-wall drinking places are enough!<br />It’s now easy to point at Manly on a weekend, see the fights in the street in the early hours, see the drug dealer gangs and the daily drive-by shootings in the suburbs, and say “What Australian culture are you on about?”. Just as Nietsche’s madman ran around with a lantern searching for God, and concluding that he had been murdered, so are these chattering maddies in the leftoid media. Their ersatz intellectualism has killed Australian culture, and replaced it with sneering, smug superiority, safe in the all-purpose post-modernist relativism that ordains what? That even a murderous political control system imported along with migrants we didn’t ask for and do not want is superior to our “culture”. Thanks a lot, you empty vessels. Back to your editorial meetings “in thunder, lightning, and in rain”.blogstropnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-12586186706219492622012-01-28T07:28:22.361+11:002012-01-28T07:28:22.361+11:00The doom clock for Fairfax must be reading 2 minut...The doom clock for Fairfax must be reading 2 minutes to midnight. I wonder who will show up to offer one cent on the dollar when it goes into administration ? Can't be long now. I look forward to these quality journalists being liberated from their daily vitriol and being enabled to experience the wonders of the job market, along with Tony Hodges.<br /><br />No WorriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-15601006018139489852012-01-28T06:51:49.089+11:002012-01-28T06:51:49.089+11:00A great article, Bunyip, it brought tears to my ey...A great article, Bunyip, it brought tears to my eyes.<br />Many, many years ago, I worked for the SMH, in a lowly capacity, in the Proof Reading Room.<br /><br />In those days, highly paid LinoType Operators produced the hot metal metal "line of type" from which the SMH was actually printed.<br />Proof reading then corrected those errors.<br /><br />The place ran happily on cigarettes, grog, and powerful Unionism. The "Father of the Chapel" was the union boss<br />Very happy days! Not so many wussy types thenJB ,Sydney/Shanghainoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-15994096924535737822012-01-27T20:56:03.577+11:002012-01-27T20:56:03.577+11:00Bunyip,
Methinks that the destruction of sharehol...Bunyip,<br /><br />Methinks that the destruction of shareholder wealth in publicly listed companies such as unfair fax have similarities with guvmint - both organisations seem to exist to enable the few to rip off the many, officially. The only distinction being the accepted belief that guvmints can't become bankrupt, virtue of their ability to print money. After all, taxation is but a legally enforced method to make you buy shares in corporate Oz, and what you have left, is then gulled into buying shares of public companies controlled by those who control guvmint. After all, physical money has to end up in the pockets of physically real persons.<br /><br />And when your grasp of physical reality becomes slippery from your leftist inclinations (people seem to born silly, rather than acquire it from instruction, the latter being comedy), you start to confuse the imaginal with reality and end up with the mess we have now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-60036975670748492912012-01-27T19:54:24.382+11:002012-01-27T19:54:24.382+11:00Presumably the "small, grey man" is John...Presumably the "small, grey man" is John B Fairfax wondering what happened to four fifths his $1bn of Rural Press shares merged into Fairfax. His disappointment is tinged only by the knowledge that somehow he and his family are responsible for this mess.H B Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-68942672704618537962012-01-27T19:40:46.834+11:002012-01-27T19:40:46.834+11:00'Butch' Carlton - an uncannily clever nick...'Butch' Carlton - an uncannily clever nickname - is unique among columnists of the left or the right in that his stuff is completely acerebral. Other writers have bad or silly ideas, but Butch hasn't any ideas at all. How does he get away with it??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-44660359057986810172012-01-27T16:50:22.282+11:002012-01-27T16:50:22.282+11:00Bunyip, it's like all party pieces, you have t...Bunyip, it's like all party pieces, you have to have been there to really get the vibe. How on earth did you manage to score the invitation to this recent Fairfax love-fest? You account has the ring of eye-witness truth! I am overcome with admiration for your skill in firstly attending that festive occasion, then escaping it without harm, plus returning with an admirable lithograph of it so we all can share in the emotions, and reporting it with such vivid accuracy. I am sure your Walkley awaits you next time round.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-53874354193923411682012-01-27T15:33:07.638+11:002012-01-27T15:33:07.638+11:00Look somebody has to read the Fairfax mess. It'...Look somebody has to read the Fairfax mess. It's too much for me, but the mighty Bunyip is reporting for us outsiders. It's just ... too fantastic.<br />-AmazedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-43052887500021806092012-01-27T14:38:16.621+11:002012-01-27T14:38:16.621+11:00Professor, someone should be paying a lot of money...Professor, someone should be paying a lot of money for your brilliance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-10625379495071616272012-01-27T14:11:39.072+11:002012-01-27T14:11:39.072+11:00Professor:
This is perhaps your best work. A veri...Professor:<br /><br />This is perhaps your best work. A veritable masterpiece. <br /><br />Can it be bettered?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com