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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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Why Wont You Let Kevin Spacey Live!
In another no doubt popular opinion - it's time to let the disgraced and cancelled Kevin Spacey back into the world (and why James Franco and Louis C.K. should…
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Saint Glady Berejiklian, Joan of Arc, Queen of our Hearts
In light of the FriendlyJordies YouTube attack on the NSW Liberal leader and state premier, Gladys Berejiklian, a look at her unfathomable and disgraceful hero…
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Israel V Palestine: Part Four - Israel And America
The final in a four part series on the current Israel Palestine conflict. America has been Israel's never ending ally no matter what happens. A look at how…
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Israel V Palestine: Part Three - Is Israel A Democracy?
Part 3 in a four part series on the current Israel Palestine conflict. It is frequently mentioned that Israel is the only democracy in the middle east, the dog…
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Israel V Palestine: Part Two - Israel's Right To Defend Itself
The second of four pieces on the current Israel Palestine conflict - this looking at the oft touted right of Israel to defend itself no matter what.
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Israel V Palestine: Part One - Why The Current Conflict?
The first of four pieces on the latest conflagration between Israel and Palestine, why the current conflict exploded. Basically the onerous Israeli Prime…
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Israel Vs Palestine: Apartheid?
After a relatively quiet few years, the Israel/Palestine conflict has flared to catastrophic levels. A look at two major recent events, the Israeli high court…
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Are England And Australia Finished?
A lament for the two countries I've spent most of my life in and in whom life has got continually worse, yet whose populations keep electing those responsible…
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See What You Made Me Do - Domestic Violence
Ahead of SBS's landmark TV documentary investigation into Australia's epidemic of domestic violence against women called, See What You Made Me Do, an overview…
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Desserts Are Killing Masterchef
A rant and look at the new season of Australian Masterchef and how desserts are coming to dominate and ruin the program.
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The Australian Government Playing The Race Card Again
With nothing going for them in their obsessive chase of the 24 hour news cycle and public opinion, Scott Morrison's Liberal Party go for their time honored…
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Save Us Kristina Keneally! You're Our Only Hope!
Even in a run of the worst political scandals in modern Australian history, Labor leader Anthony Albanese is STILL missing in action, still unable to cut…
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The Dangerous Religiosity of Scott Morrison
We got a window into the secretive Pentacostal world of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a gold coast convention. It's a far more extreme world than…
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Woking From Home - The Greatest Revolution In Office History
With apologies to all those essential workers who just can't, why for me and millions of office workers, working from home is life changing and beyond…
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The European Super League Wont Kill Football
Well, what a difference a day makes! In the 12 hours since this was broadcast it looks like the whole thing has predictably imploded. Why everyone was wrong…
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RIP Prince Philip
I have a very complex opinion on my Royal Family, for a lefty a surprisingly positive one. In the modern era we care more about sentences than actions. Philip…
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Australia Is The Last Country Who Can Criticise China
Australia recently made a joint statement criticising China for human rights abuses over their indigenous Uighur population. We are the last developed nation…
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Who Is Scott Morrison?
Australia's Prime Minister was a completely different person ten years ago to the daggy dad/talk radio friendly/sports tv carnival barker we see today. His…
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The Liberal Party Have An Empathy Problem - Too Much Empathy For Misogynists
What a great job being a Liberal politician is, behavior that would get anyone in any office or shop job in the country sacked, is continually forgiven. As the…
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Is Brittany Higgins A Silly Little Girl Or Sacked DJ Jeremy Cordeaux A Moronic Idiot?
To be fair raped Liberal staffer, Brittany Higgins, has had a good run. I didn't think the rabid right would let her get away with being a hero for so long…
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The End Of Scott Morrison Is Nigh
Four weeks ago I posted that the Brittany Higgins rape scandal would finally be the thing to bring down Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison - a month on…
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Misogny Is Liberal Party Culture, Not Labor
With rape, misogyny and sexism scandals engulfing Scott Morrison's Liberal government, stop this disgraceful push to pretend this is a bi-partisan problem…
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The Rape Of Brittany Higgins - Four Corners Timeline
In one of the ABC flagships best ever shows, Four Corners forensically details the time line of the rape of Liberal Party staffer, Brittany Higgins, in the…
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Is China To Blame For Coronavirus?
An exhaustive look at that loaded question and everything it could mean - ending with a yes or no answer.
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Can The Australian Media Stop Lying About Facebook
Yet again the Australian news media is presenting the farcical collapse of the media bargaining code as actually being in place (it isn't - even the government…
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The Grammys Suck
Why do we pretend this industry schmooz fest is the Oscars for music, when no award is ever based on how good the music is, solely sales and how much the…
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The Great Transgender Sports Scandal
A title way more controversial than the content - instead a deeper look at the issue and how it relates to sport in general, how much more complicated that is…
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Are Biological Women Being Erased?
On International Women's Day (don't worry girls, they'll be coming for that next) a look at the way the worlds largest oppressed and marginalised group are the…
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Facebook Won, Australia Nil
Facebook just won a world's first battle with a sovereign government and trounced the ridiculous Australian Media Bargaining Code, making the Scott Morrison…
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Christian Porter And The Rape Allegation
Christian Porter, the Attorney General of Australia who just destroyed the Family Court - designed to protect women against men like him, is the Liberal…
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Facebook Vs Australia - Why I Stand With Facebook
The Australian government's attempts to Murdoch and Channel 9's bidding, with their gob-smacking Media Bargaining Bill comes to a shocking head as Facebook…
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Scott Morrison And The Rape Of Brittany Higgins
Why I think the devastating rape of a Liberal Party staffer, brushed under the carpet, resulting in the scott-free rapist attacking more women, will finally be…
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Carey Mulligan's Oscar politics at its worst
Actor Carey Mulligan (and the whole world) owe film critic Dennis Harvey a massive apology for the disgraceful act of destroying his career and reputation, to…
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Tayna Plibersek - Now's the time to lead Labor
Facing the certainty of defeat to the god-awful Scott Morrison, subjecting Australia to years more of a declining economy and utter despair, a tactically…
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Gamestop: The Revenge
One of the happiest and most joyful moments in modern history has been watching the parasitic vampire cancers of Wall Street losing at their own rigged game…
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The West Has Already Lost Against China
There's lots of talk about the economic battle between China and the West but due to the combined forces of economic Neo-liberalism and globalisation…
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Scott Morrison and the Seven Mountains Mandate
Australia's first evangelical Christian prime minister may not act like a moral Christian but he has own unique set of values that he keeps well hidden. Such…
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Anthony Albanese and Franking Credits - The Last Straw
Ditch bad leaders not good policy. Australian Labor leader Anthony Albanese has been a meek disaster, spooked by right wing media into adopting a policy of…
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The Untouchables - Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian
In any normal country, the relentless scandals and corruption that have continually beset the federal and state governments of Scott Morrison and Gladys…
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Brexit - The Deepest Cut Of Populism
Right wing populism has done many terrible things these last five years but when Trump and Scomo and Boris are long gone, Brexit will remain. A Brexit lament.
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Scott Morrison - Skating On Thin Ice
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison enjoys ridiculously unearned popularity but a foundation built solely on popularity is no foundation at all and he…
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Top 25 Albums of 2020
Bit of cross pollination here with the radio show (show with music https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/the-brown-note-top-25-albums-of-2020/) My top 25…
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Australia vs China vs America - Scott Morrison's Economic Suicide
How Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blundered his whole country's economy into a war with two fighting behemoths, without realising their…
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Scott Morrison is 100% to blame for the China crisis
Australian idiot bull in a china-shop prime minister, Scott Morrison, threw Australia under a bus six months ago, by wildly and stupidly attacking China to…
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Australian Labor need to sack their leader Anthony Albanese
Every time Labor lose an election, they run terrified from the right wing version of events. That they lost for being left wing, that unions, socialism and…
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Australia has the worst news media in the Western World
Our uniquely compliant, backside kissing, endlessly validating media gives the Liberal governments at state and federal level the most easy ride imaginable. A…
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Corbyn v Blair - the cult of personality destroying the UK's Labour party
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are portrayed as irrational zealots, hell bent on destroying the Labour Party, yet the cult of personality really destroying Labour…
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Kyle Rittenhouse and Bobby Shmurda - race and the law in America
Recently Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with murdering two people and shooting a third with an illegally owned assault rifle is now out on a $2 million bail, raised…
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Don't offer an olive branch to the right they are the enemy
With a bitterly fractured world, divided along the political right and left, recent wins against populism have come with some imploring us to reach out to the…
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Pete Evans isn't a Nazi
Another winner in 2020 bingo. Why I don't think the celebrity chef and now Qanon-lite grifter is an ACTUAL white supremacist, in light of his recent and…
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Christian Porter and the Family Court
Australian Attorney General, Christian Porter, was outed on a recent 4Corners TV expose on Liberal party misogyny and bad behavior towards women. Ring wing…
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Why Trump is losing the senate and the madness of King Donald
His election defeat was beautiful but now we enter a dangerous phase we only joked about and that now seems real. Donald really is trying to take over American…
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Australia has a class problem - The Liberal Party 4Corners Scandal
The ABC's 4Corners expose into the systemic sexist, entitled behavior of Liberal National Party government officials shows they really believe themselves to be…
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Why I Stand With Jeremy Corbyn
The best UK political leader of my lifetime, the UK's Bernie Sanders - Jeremy Corbyn, is once again being railroaded by accusations of racism, despite…
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Is Populism Dead?
It's been a horror five years, bouncing from catastrophe to disaster. From Trump to Brexit to Boris to Scomo. The nightmare of populism might be ending though…
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Why I Stand With JK Rowling on Women's rights.
I can't think of another oppressed or marginalised group who have ownership of their own issue, identity or story so routinely talked over or dismissed as…
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The Murdoch Press v Kevin Rudd
The ex-Aussie Prime Minister takes aim at one of the most pernicious influences on the Western World's political discourse and media landscape - the Murdoch…
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Why Trump Just Lost The Election
He probably had anyway but the optics of his $750 tax bill just ended his campaign.
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Tax Cuts v Social Welfare - Neoliberalism
Australia's neoliberal acolyte government seeks to cut unemployment benefit and increase tax breaks during a recession, for a perfect storm of economic…
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The Social Dilemma - Social Media
A look at the terrifying issues raised by The Social Dilemma documentary, about the colossal, unprecedented and dangerous impact of social media on society.