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The Brown Note
Thoughts from the abyss on politics, current affairs, culture, news and other ephemera from The Brown Note radio show presented by Julian Brown, recorded unscripted, unedited and live. Full show with music at https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/ YouTube version - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSju31TDdZd7KZWwbwOwg4A
Episodes
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An Open Letter To Cookers, Anti-Vaxxers And Truckers
To those who support the recent protests from Canberra to Canada - be wary of who is standing next to you, just because everyone else is giving you stick, it…
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The Liberal’s Vs China Vs Russia Vs America
With and Australian election looming and with nothing else to campaign on, the incumbent Liberal party have decided to double down on Prime Minister Scott…
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein And The Elephant In The Room
The trial and conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell is a side show, a distraction and slight of hand to avoid scrutiny of a far bigger story. Given Epstein's self…
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Why I Stand With Jimmy Carr - A Defense Of Comic Irony
Another of my world beating popular opinions, why some of our most sophisticated methods of communication - irony and satire - are under great threat from a…
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Scott Morrison And The Question On The Whole Country’s Lips
After the bush fire crisis, the misogyny scandals and now text-gate, the seemingly indestructible Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is entering his…
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The Housing Market Is Economic Climate Change
Renters are the new share-croppers - working their whole lives with nothing to show and giving any wealth they generate to a richer person to pass on to their…
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Why Pregnant Journalist Charlotte Bellis Does Not Deserve Your Sympathy
In one of the years great misreported stories, the world was aghast at demonic New Zealand's treatment of this stranded pregnant journalist. The truth is NZ…
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Neil Young V Joe Rogan V Spotify
With Neil Young being probably my favorite recording artist of all time and a famously curmudgeonly one, I've found his battle with Joe Rogan and Spotify…
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The Tragedy Of The Labo(u)r Party
It's the same situation for both the UK and Australia's left wing Labo(u)r parties - after an unforgivable, interminable, in-explainable run of election…
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The Wiggles Win The Triple J Hot 100
What used to be an Australia day icon has lost more than its date, with the childrens band The Wiggles winning what used to be a great round up of alternative…
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Australia Day
Australia's great celebration of national pride and unity is with us once again... to bring us together in our mutual hatred of each other
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Sexuality Is The New Vegan
A not particularly serious piece about how the new sexualities have replaced Vegans as the people that just can't stop telling you who they are.
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J.K. Rowling Is A Feminist Hero
Echoing my "Why I Stand With J.K. Rowling" piece from a year and a half ago, in light of three recent events. The Scottish court's refusal to prosecute a trans…
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The China Olympics Hypocrisy
The China Winter Olympics is on us and Australia (in economic and diplomatic war with China) is having a schizophrenic breakdown. Celebrating the event with…
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The Truth About Ukraine
With the prospect of conflict in Ukraine flaring up again - a look at one of the Western world's most inaccurate media narratives of the last decade. That…
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The Best And Worst Films Of 2021
Exactly what is says it is, with a no doubt popular choice for worst film of the year.
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Albums Of The Year 2021
In the weakest year for albums, tracks and movies of the century.
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Was 2021 The Worst Year For Art This Century?
Working our my usual radio show end of year best-of lists, I was struck by how weak 2021 was - across albums, movies and tracks, the lamest of the century, why?
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The Rise In Facism Has Its Roots In Murdoch And The Evangelicals
There is no doubt the previously hardcore fringe elements of the far right have piggybacked off the back off COVID related protests, mingling closer than the…
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Jacida Ardern Made Smoking Sexy Again
New Zealand's pre-emptive ban on smoking is a bridge too far - an overreach into lives beyond what government should be responsible for, at a time of record…
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Kyle Rittenhouse - The Horror Of Self Defense In America
With a judge straight out of Mississippi burning, whose only job it seemed was to get a young and hopelessly misguided Trump supporter off his charges of…
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The Election Australia Deserves
With an opposition, burnt by offering too much substance and policy at the last election, losing to a blunderbuss with none, we now face an election where…
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Assisted Dying Laws: Why Wont You Let Me Die?
The Australian state of New South Wales, finally began a debate, long blocked by right wing religious conservatives, to pass euthanasia/voluntary assisted…
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Sean Kelly: A Portrait Of Australian Politics
Sean Kelly's important new book, The Game: a Portrait of Scott Morrison covers several of the main slants of this channel. Not only the invented fabrication…
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China‘s Ballistic Missile Terror!
After satellite photo's of China's new ballistic missile systems and deadly new hyper-sonic super-weapon went global - a cursory look at what's actually…
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An Insight Into Narcissism
The normally flawless issues based TV show Insight, crashed badly with its recent program on narcissism, managing to perpetuate the most common myths whilst…
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Gladys Berejiklian: The Best Friend Of The ICAC
Contrary to the wailing and gnashing of Australia's Gladys worshiping media - the disgraced ex leader of the state of NSW could end up the best reason ever for…
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The Blundering Scott Morrison: World‘s Worst Leader
All of Australia's worst ever prime minister, Scott Morrison's titanic failings are on full display at the climate summit in Glasgow - from his historic…
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Dave Chappelle And Netflix Vs The World
Arguably the world's apex stand up comedian, Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix stand up, The Closer, is the most controversial of the modern age. Why I think…
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My Incredbile Vaccination Story
I am now in possibly the smallest group of people in the country, I have had both vaccinations yet am unvaccinated, have a medical exemption and with the rest…
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AUKUS - Scott Morrison Vs France & China
Not content with randomly destroying our relationship with our biggest trading partner and the world's second most powerful nation, China, just to look good…
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Pray For Gladys
Please spare some space in your heart to pray for the saintly Gladys Berejiklian, queen of our hearts, cut down so brutally from her rightful throne as leader…
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Come On Australia! We‘re All In This Together!
No we're not! COVID is giving our media, politicians and public some false sense that we are one country united - far from it. We are two countries that hate…
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Brexitaggedon
With the streets of the UK now resembling an episode of The Waking Dead, as the zombiefied masses literally fight over petrol, shelves are bare, fast food…
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China Vs Evergrande
What should China do with a problem like Evergrande, their very own personal Global Financial Crisis collapsing property giant? They should do the opposite of…
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Clive Palmer And The United Australia Party
Now surpassing One Nation as Australia's most awful band of political charlatans, the UAP, despite ironically sending me an unsolicited text message in 2019…
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9/11 at 20: The End Of America‘s Forever War
It's been near 20 years since the most watched event in global history kick-started the century but could America's forever war finally be over? Since World…
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Gaslightin‘ Gladys Berejiklian
The New South Wales state premier has taken several leaves out of the king of empty PR and spin - Prime Minister Scott Morrison's book and is dealing with her…
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Abortion Texas Style
My position on the issue of abortion in the wake of the real world Handmaids Tale unfolding in Texas.
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The Decline And Fall Of The Sydney Morning Herald
When I arrived in Sydney in 2004, the Sydney Morning Herald was everything a newspaper should be - especially in a country with the third highest concentration…
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Rising House Prices Have Destroyed Our Way Of Life
In the UK and Australia they have. I've earned more money than my low paid dad my whole life, he has always owned his own house - once the birth right of any…
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Is COVID A First World Problem? We Are Killing Ourselves With Chemicals
COVID has overwhelmingly affected the first world worst, developing nations least, by almost every metric. Total cases, cases per capita and deaths per capita…
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Afghanistan 2.0: A Kinder Gentler Machine Gun Taliban?
America's new Saigon. A round up of current events, how we got here, who's to blame and what will happen. Why the Taliban will probably be a different…
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The War On Drugs Is Over
Though it has always been a failure of biblical proportions, the war on drugs is actually over - it ended with a whimper and no one even noticed. With nearly…
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Lets Kick Sky News Off Of YouTube Forever
In some of the years most heartening, warm and fuzzy news, the cess pit that is Murdoch's Sky News at night has been kicked off of YouTube, for a week, for…
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Disgusted By Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese your Labor party are a disgrace. You've been the weakest, stand for nothing opposition leader imaginable but have somehow reversed into a…
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COVID: The Anti-Vaxxer's Biggest Nightmare
Prevailing wisdom is that COVID is a boon for the anti-vax movement like no other, I disagree - they've never faced a real time, global test on what they…
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COVID: You Have A Right To Protest
Most protests aren't sanctioned by the government, police force, media or even the majority of the public, so I'd be a hypocrite to deny the crowds in Sydney…
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Are Your Pronouns Important?
The latest vanguard in the civil rights movement seems to be pronouns and new sexualities - it shouldn't be, it's not the same thing and it's taking up space.
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Anthony Albanese: Reversing To Victory
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has fallen down the stairs backwards into an election winning position and is now in a race with Prime Minister Scott…
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The Katie Hopkins Fallacy
The obnoxious right wing firebrand has been booted out of Australia for breaching COVID rules and that was the plan all along. She never intended appearing on…
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The End Of The Afghan War - America's Greatest Folly
If the modern age has been defined by Islamic extremism, no country is more culpable than the USA, who have been the driving force in fomenting radical Islam…
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Car Park Rorts - Sports Rorts On Steriods
Being allowed to get away with murder by both the Australian media and half the public - the coalition government has increasingly resembled the last days of…
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Australia's COVID Luck Has Run Out
Through the sheer luck of being a remote country, with a small popualtion, well spread out - Australia rode the first year of COVID at the top of the world…
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Let Us Re-JOYCE BARNABY IS BACK!
Proof once again Australian politics is about as far from being a meritocracy as feudal England, the bonking beetroot Barnaby Joyce is once again the deputy…
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Duran Duran - The Greatest Singles Band Of The 80s
Making the case that the band that came from the UK's dreariest town yet turned into the most glamorous act on earth were not only the best singles act of the…
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Why Trump Will Never Stop Winning
Narcissism is an oft underestimated and potentially dangerous mental illness, how that combined with a massive amount of the worst people supporting you is a…
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The Great Naomi Osaka Hypocrisy
After the tennis ace's revelation of depression, subsequent withdrawal from the French Open and apparent Martyrdom, why the press and the public are massive…
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Scott Morrison's Vaccination Vacation
Having the developed world's most incompetent government lead by it's most inept leader was always going to end in disaster sooner or later, now Australia's…
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Christian Porter: The Disaster Artist
The latest episode of Christian Porter versus the World is the best yet, in a terrible few months for the ex-Australian Attorney General and one time anointed…