I’m tackling the big issues in this one. If you don’t like harsh sarcastic comments about reality TV, probably best you don’t read this one. I was kinda tired and irritable when I wrote this. This issue’s a few weeks old, but it was brought up again on telly on Rove Live. (To fill in any Americans, Gretel Killeen is the host of Big Brother, Rove McManus is our Dave Letterman, and Merlin Luck was a BB housemate). How irritating it was to watch Rove McManus and Gretel Killeen comforting each...

At a recent concert, Aussie band Frenzal Rhomb played a set. At the end, Jackie O (of Popstars and Kyle & Jackie O’s Hot 30 infamy) was to introduce Shannon Noll as the next act. When she came onstage, Frenzal continued playing guitars and yelling obscenities about Australian Idol and Shannon. No matter how rude you may think this was, it doesn’t justify threats of violence. In fact, rudeness is all part of rock n roll. This is the transcript of a subsequent on-air discussion between Jackie O...

I saw the movie Hotel Rwanda yesterday. It is an incredibly moving film and I reccommend everyone see it. It is about the massacres in Rwanda that happened 10 years ago when the Hutus and the Tootsies hacked each other to death in reaction to the gaps between rich and poor brought about by colonisation. At the end though, as I wiped my tears, I thought that they really should have played 400 Miles From Darwin by the Whitlams over the credits: We pay to shed a sombre tear in the darkness ...