Calamity Times

11/05/2026

eSafety ✅ Children ✅ Care ✅

Disagree? Congratulations — you’re anti-safety, anti-children, and pro-harm.

Checkmate, monsters.

25/04/2026

SHARE IF YOU AGREE! Conscientious Sydneysider Hugo Fenwick-Walsh, 37, loves speaking truth to brunch.

Hugo couldn't locate Uruzgan on a map, and thinks the difference between a VC and an MG is that one’s pinned to a blazer while the other’s valet-parked outside. He has, nonetheless, followed the Ben Roberts-Smith matter closely since Tuesday, when his LinkedIn feed filled with thoughtful posts from other senior communications professionals. They were lowering their voices, furrowing their brows, and feeling history pass through them between rounds.

Hugo works as Director of Strategic Narrative at a Sydney consultancy, where he helps multinational extractives firms describe their operations in language that foregrounds community values. It pays extremely well.

He lives in Paddington. His most strenuous weekly engagement takes place on Friday afternoons at a Surry Hills bar whose name rotates quarterly, where the staff know his order, the service is exemplary, and the bill goes to his firm. And while the table kind is the closest thing to service Hugo is ever likely to encounter, he sees no particular reason to alter the arrangement.

Hugo has always opposed the war in Afghanistan. He first opposed it in Year 5 at Reddam House, under the guidance of his teacher Ms Clementine Fairchild, who had strong views about the deployment and shared them generously with her students. By recess, Hugo and twenty-two other children had independently reached the view that the war was morally complex and probably bad. He continued opposing it at Sydney Grammar, and then most stridently at Sydney University, and has continued opposing it from a safe distance across the subsequent two decades. He distinctly remembers disagreeing with the deployment on several occasions, most notably over tapas in 2011.

That is why the Roberts-Smith matter has come as such a relief.

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17/03/2026

SYDNEY — Grace Tame, the former Australian of the Year whose career was built on the foundational principle that survivors of sexual violence ought to be believed, has unveiled what sources close to her describe as a “nuanced update” to her advocacy framework: a nationality-based verification system for determining which r**es count.

The new policy was announced live on ABC Sydney Mornings, where Tame told host Hamish Macdonald that allegations of mass sexual violence committed during the October 7 massacre — documented by the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, corroborated by forensic evidence, survivor testimony, and findings from the International Criminal Court — had been “debunked” and constituted “propaganda” she would not “sink to the level of entertaining.”

Pressed on the UN’s finding that there were “reasonable grounds to believe” r**e and gang r**e occurred during the attacks, Tame explained that the question itself was “a tactic of bad faith actors” designed to “trip people up” — a framing that insiders acknowledged bore a striking resemblance to the institutional deflection techniques Tame spent the first half of her career describing as the machinery of abuse. “Clearly, I don’t support any of it,” Tame added, in what public relations experts have confirmed was technically a sentence.

Sources familiar with the development say the updated framework is straightforward: sexual violence committed by Australian schoolteachers remains an atrocity deserving of national attention, legislative reform, and an Australian of the Year award. Sexual violence committed by Hamas militants during a documented massacre of 1,200 civilians is “propaganda” that has been “debunked” — despite the minor complication that no credible international body has debunked it, and several have gone to considerable lengths before confirming it.

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14/07/2024

Blood boiling! Make no mistake, WA has its own Biden. His name is Quigley. He is the only Attorney General in our history to have been found confused & confusing by a Court. And now he has released a killer who was supposed to be on a life sentence. Just like Biden, Quigley’s time is up. WA deserves better.

25/04/2024