Hoodies, Hats & no BS

18/08/2025

Freedom and progressiveness. Two very simple things, one offers people the opportunity to live their lives the way they choose, the other offering equality and the ability to adapt to modern society. Both these things are hugely important in any society but only when they aren’t clouded in political rhetoric and aren’t manipulated for cheap political gains.

If we leave aside the rest of the world for a moment neither side of the political divide is really adhering to their principles of freedom or progressiveness. The Liberal Party have allowed themselves to become the whipping party for Labor because the Libs give their members the freedom to discuss all the issues that may or may not be relevant. They allow themselves to be dragged into the abyss of self interest and a world where any kind of minority faction can hold sway for the most moronic of reasons. They lack leadership and policy and be it at state or federal level looked doomed for a generation unless they can convince the kids of the tea drinkers of Australia to vote right.

Over in Labor town progressive was once a term to describe Labor but they have now verged so far left it’s hard to see how they bring it back onto an even keel. Albo says yes to everything and everyone. We stand with Ukraine and we recognise Palestine, we encourage migration, we’re building homes, we’re raising wages, we care about gender identity, we chase net zero and we build submarines to protect ourselves from our trade partners…but we do nothing to genuinely take a stand for the kids that suffer in the Middle East, we send weapons to support more death in Eastern Europe, we watch as the next generation of Australians struggle to afford housing, we don’t invest in training of trades, we lack any kind of real care for small business, we allow our flag to be burnt and stand by as the flags of hatred are waved triumphantly across our greatest landmarks, we tolerate speeches of death to Australians and we demand generations of Australians suffer without power, heating or cooling for the sake of an impossible target…we build machines of war to frighten away the things that go bump in the night all the while knowing if they do come for us the battle is all but lost before it begins…and how do we afford all this? Well that’s not important because this is progress, how dare you question us you racist transphobic bigot this is how we make Australia the lucky country…don’t look over there though look over here at all we have to be thankful for…that’s real progressiveness.

See it’s actually not about labor or liberal anymore, it’s actually about incompetence. It’s about corporate profits, it’s about staying in power to be able to afford the spoils of public office, first class travel, houses, pensions for life and jobs for the boys…and what about real freedom and genuine progressiveness?

See through the BS and see the world through the eyes of Hoodies Media…coming soon.

17/08/2025

So, ummm when do the hate speech laws kick in? I mean if you’re a card carrying member of the N**i party waving your favourite flag you, quite rightly get arrested, but show up at a trans/women/puppy/kitten/they/them/she/her/dave/doug/melanie or Bruce rally with a mask on and signs saying death to Australia that seems ok?

I was criticised recently for suggesting we should have some kind of protection for the Australian flag, but I’m sorry why are we putting up with the same nonsense each and every week? Ohhhh that’s right, votes!

We have such a weak democratic system that we now have to endure masked people holding up signs of hate! It’s also the case that if someone is so committed to their cause why do they need to fight for it behind a mask?

The whole thing just stinks and oh by the way, there are still only two genders, but be who you want to be.

15/08/2025

Well after a week where we saw Australia called out for its bravery by a terrorist organisation, where interest rates were cut, where the Premier of Victoria gave us her thoughts on gender in schools and where we wait to hear what the federal court think a woman is here’s a question for everyone…

If humans couldn’t lie anymore which industry would collapse first…?

Have a great weekend

13/08/2025

It’s all well and good for Albo to recognise Palestine and yes we absolutely must see peace in the Middle East, but when do we say it’s not ok to burn the Australian flag?

We recently saw thousands of march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on behalf of the Palestinian cause, but while we as a freedom loving country allow people to voice their concerns via protests we saw the Taliban flag waved proudly with no consequence. As various flags representing various terrorist operated organisations are waved throughout the country why do we have to endure our flag being burnt?

Many of us know that the Australian flag does represent a dark past for our indigenous people and we get that, but until we have a replacement or consensus on what that flag should be we have a flag that represents us on the global stage. A flag our athletes proudly stand under at sporting events, a flag that represents us at places like the UN, a flag that represents what it is to be Australian and yet we have governments that allow it to be burnt by people who have come to Australia not to be one of us, but to impose hate and violence.

In the post Second World War era thousands of Greeks and Italians immigrated to Australia. Many of them took on menial jobs that now see a good portion of them as successful business people with generations of family members living in a country they now call home. Migrant workers who came to Australia worked their arses off and are now proud to call this country theirs. The same for many within the Asian community, kids sent to Australia to get an education staying here and establishing a life for themselves. Indians, Nepalese, Sri Lankans taking advantage of the opportunities they have had in Australia, none of them burning the flag of the country that gave them a new life and home.

No matter where we are in the discussion about our flag it is the best representation of Australia we have and we should not allow to be burnt under any circumstances. Politicians so focused on pandering to minority groups for the sake of a few extra votes need to take a stand and say no one burns our flag! Imagine if you will what would happen if a group of Australians stood on the middle of the Melbourne CBD and torched the Palestinian flag? The hypocrisy is ridiculous at best and shameful at its worst.

We are all Australians and right now, more than ever we need to stand up for the flag or we run the risk of losing our indentity.

12/08/2025

The Hoodies Magazine Podcast will launch in a few weeks time and as such we are now looking to bring onboard sponsors of the Podcast.

We already have a great sponsor in Smarter Property Investing Pty Ltd but want more to make sure the podcast not only survive but thrives well into the future.

So if you want to get onboard with what is going to be one of the most interesting and influential podcasts going around please email [email protected]

11/08/2025

In early September Hoodies Media is launching the HOODIES LIVE Podcast. A podcast based on the core philosophies of the company, common sense, authenticity and accountability.

It won’t be slick, it won’t be flashy, it won’t go according to plan and it’ll be me interviewing people in my Hoodie and hat but it will be real. It will be real issues for real people in a world of confusion and disunity. Watch this space!

Today the Albanese government plan to recognise the state of Palestine and push Australia onto the global stage. The Israel Palestine conflict is dividing the country and if Albanese does indeed follow through on recognising Palestine then he and his government must make sure we protect peoples rights to live their lives without fear of violence or intimidation.

Watch out for the Hoodies LIVE Podcast and issue 25 of Hoodies magazine will drop on August 25th

09/08/2025

Today’s edition of the Hoodies News

08/08/2025

In mid 2021 when Covid ceased to be about a virus and became about blind government and bureaucratic incompetence I took to writing here on LinkedIn. What I wrote could get 100,000 plus hits and it was a rare thing for those people to disagree with what I had to say. That support lead me to starting Hoodies Magazine which has now published 24 soon to be 25 issues with great success.

For several months now I’ve been trying to work out how best to grow Hoodies. Get an investor, get onboard with another media organisation, talk to this person, ask these questions, get on TV, go on radio, have coffee with that person…all of it has been valued as part of my thought process but it has lead me to realise that the only way Hoodies does become a global media player is by me pushing it. Now yes I’m more than aware people will laugh when I suggest I can take on the global media world, but I obviously don’t care what anyone thinks and as the saying goes, the people that are crazy enough to think they can change the world are often the ones that do. And why can’t I genuinely believe that people deserve a media organisation based on common sense? On authenticity? On real accountability? I had a coffee with someone once that said to me… “Is that all you’ve got?” Well yes, and it’s more than most media outlets have.

Hoodies Media is going to a podcast, the magazine and online commentary via our social media handles of, You Tube, X, Tik Tok, Facebook and Instagram. At the moment they’re not going to be shiny and flashy productions, they’ll be mostly me, with my grey hair, 53 year old dad face with no Botox, my cheap glasses and currently broken teeth, but it’s real. It’s heart on the sleeve, it’s not bowing down before corporate or government interests, it’s saying this is common sense, this is authentic and this is the new form of accountability for real people.

Will we agree all the time? No we won’t, but that shouldn’t divide us, it should unite us in finding real solutions to real issues. The world is part excited but part terrified of what Ai will do to us, but we have to remember we are human! We need to connect, to feel, to engage and to be connected, something we are allowing to be taken away from us. This Media company, my media company will always be about the things that matter and how we can stop the utter bu****it we and our kids are constantly fed via government, corporates and mainstream media all with vested interests in keeping us under the feet.

Today isn’t about bells and whistles and grandiose statements, it’s simply me telling you where Hoodies is going and that I’d like as many of you as possible to get behind what I plan to do next.

Happy Friday.

05/08/2025

As Australia descends into the abyss of allowing flags of terrorist organisations to be displayed at a ‘protest’ and as we watch the Australian flag burnt the next issue of Hoodies Magazine is putting away the baseball bat of accountability and focusing on all that is Food and Booze.

As much as we roll our eyes at the utter stupidity of the new Nick Reece plan to establish an optimism plan and introduce happiness KPI’s at the City of Melbourne, as we shake our heads at yet another Victorian Government ‘mandate’, as much as we watch Aussie families and youth struggle with housing affordability, as people continue to struggle with cost of living and as we watch the last remnants of the equalities of democracy fade away I feel we need to focus, at least for one issue, on the things that make us feel good and celebrate all the good things in the food and booze industry!

On August 25th issue 25 will drop and it will be a collaboration between Hoodies and hospitality recruitment company Staff Finder, a company I set up from scratch and simply wants to help the hospitality industry find the right people for the right job!

In the meantime we continue the war on all things stupid, nonsensical and that take away from who we are as Australians!

August 25th Issue 25!

Hoodies & Staff Finder - Different.

14/05/2025

Hoodies 22 has so far been a great success! Thank you to everyone that has read it, downloaded it and shared it! It sounds corny, but some of the things outside of mainstream media and the norms of publishing do make a difference and I genuinely feel that Hoodies is one of those things. We do indeed have a way to go, but with nearly two years of publications under our belt we are more than ever on the right track.

With any kind of voice comes the responsibility to use that voice the right way, for the betterment of society as a whole, so with that in mind the next issue of Hoodies is going to be dedicated to our farmers. The men and women who are the life blood of this country and who now need our help to survive. With the Victorian government imposing yet more financial burdens on the struggling sector and with supermarkets about to go into a price war, farmers who are already dealing with drought are now in need of our help.

So with that in mind I need your help to connect me to as many farmers, companies organisations and people who work in and or support agriculture in this country. I know someone like Robert Fraser will be onboard but if you know of anyone that would be willing to be involved in putting this next issue together please email me at [email protected] or direct message me on here.

At the height of the COVID crisis Ronnie Di Stasio reminded me that we needed to look after our farmers and we sort of did, but now more than ever they need our help and it’s time we took up the call.

As ever please keep sharing Hoodies magazine and Issue 23 will be out in June in which we will be talking all things farming!

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22/04/2025

Over the course of my Hoodies journey I have written about and talked to some truly remarkable people. People who basically put their own lives on hold to help and support other people.

One such person is The Male Hug CEO and founder Tony Rabah.

I met Tony during the Covid crisis and since then we have kept in touch about what each of us was doing. We would meet for coffee to work out how best we can work together to support not only what we were both doing but really what we could do to make men’s mental health a priority.

I can’t begin to say how proud I am to now be a Buddy with the Male Hug and to have Tony and the Male Hug as supporters of Hoodies and of Staff Finder.

Hoodies enters a new era in Issue 22 as we fill the gap in the Australian media/magazine market as our home grown version of; Vanity Fair, GQ, Monocle, The Face and AirMail all rolled into one.

We are authentic and offering accountability across a range of topics but also offering hope and inspiration in a world that is changing before our eyes.

Mental health for men and women is an ever increasing issue and with people like Tony and organisations like the Male Hug people have somewhere to turn to when they feel the world is against them.

On June 20th The Male Hug hosts its annual lunch at the MCG called ‘Kick a goal for mental health’ where people can come together to raise money and awareness for this fantastic charity.

To book please use the QR code on the ad or head to the Male Hug website and let’s help the Male Hug support men’s mental health.

www.themalehug.com.au

14/05/2024

I’m Hello to all from Hoodies HQ!

As we do all indeed wait for budget night to fall upon us we here at Hoodies are today launching our Crowd Funding Campaign!

What Hoodies has achieved in 12 months is unlike anything else really seen before. We have gone from literally nowhere to being the most important new online publication with more than 40,000 views a month from across the world.

We have been so lucky to have so many great contributors and advertisers get onboard but now we need to push like we have never pushed before and really bring Hoodies into popular culture. To do that we need more money! We need to build a new website, track data and build our own independent data base!

We know everyone is doing it tough! We know things are tight, but right now more than ever we need a publication that is based on common sense, that is holding governments, people and society to account! While we are holding people to account we are entertaining, we are giving light to issues and people not seen in mainstream networks and we are doing it all in an away that is truly authentic.

We need your support and we want to keep Hoodies Magazine FREE to everyone! So! If you have read Hoodies Magazine, if you have shared it, if you think we are and can continue to make a difference then please get onboard with our Crowd Funding campaign…hit the bank account details in the flyer $5, $10, $50…$1,000 or whatever it will all go to keeping the bastards honest! And please share this message and flyer with everyone you have ever met in your life!

Issue 13 is a huge moment in the history of the Hoodies Magazine, it will be become the moment where we did what Jeff Bezos did and said I need to survive and I’ll get the funding from whoever I need to to make this whole thing work! So please get onboard and give us our Jeff Bezos moment!

Help keep Hoodies FREE and keep on asking, Why Hoodies? Because it matters!

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