Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
You probably remember the mess that was Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You know the one: where police and military were on the streets telling you when and where you could go—all for your own good, of course, to prevent you from getting sick.
Anyway, following that authoritarian fever dream of a pandemic response, the powers that be decided, in their infinite wisdom, to establish the so-called Australian Centre for Disease Control (the CDC), which only just became a permanent, standalone agency on the 1st of January. Because as we all know, once there is a new government office and a shiny new acronym involved, everything will be under control and you won’t have a single thing to worry about.
According to their website, they are there to “protect Australia from public health threats through disease surveillance, expert analysis and trusted information.” Because as we’ve learnt, as long as you put your absolute faith in “the experts,” everything will be A-OK and definitely won’t go sideways again.
Speaking of experts, the head expert is the inaugural Director-General, Professor Zoe Wainer! Thank you to the viewer who highlighted a lot of this information.
On their official Facebook page, they even state that she is the “leader of the experts,” so she certainly knows all there is to know about disease control and management. They state: “We’re so excited to see where Zoe leads us!”
Which is comforting, because it almost sounds like even they don’t know where she’s taking us.
So, where does the lead expert wish to take us? Well, according to a recent article by The Australian: “New CDC head vows to rebuild trust, engage vaccine sceptics.”
A noble goal! Truly. We’re all going to be brought back together to make sure we’re lined up and ready for our next round of jabby-jabs.
But apart from vaccination, what does the head expert believe in? What is her background?
Well, according to a recent article by The Guardian: “‘I jumped at it’: Australia’s new CDC chief on trust, misinformation and never being surprised by a health threat.”
A little bit of trivia for you: Professor Wainer’s parents actually started the country’s first public abortion clinic. Because as we know, the best way to prove you’re dedicated to “saving lives” is to come from a family that pioneered the most efficient way to end them before they are born.
I’m sure that will go down a treat with the very people she’s trying to “re-engage.”
In the article, they reinforce that she just wants “to keep Australia safe.” But of course, in the current climate, you can’t lead a major government body unless you subscribe to the latest “progressive” dogma—and that means ensuring Indigenous Australians are at the forefront of literally everything you do.
The CDC’s core focus will be on a concept that sounds vaguely mystical called “One Health.” They describe it as “an approach that recognises the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, and the wider environment are linked and interdependent, and that experts across these sectors must collaborate if disease is to be prevented and controlled.”
And who are the experts for this? First Nations people, of course!
According to Wainer: “It’s why collaboration with First Nations people and organisations will be critical to the CDC’s work.” She claims: “My understanding… is that they’ve understood that deep connection between land, water, climate, people and animals for tens of thousands of years”
So apparently, possessing the correct lineage suddenly imbues you with tens of thousands of years of specialised medical knowledge.
Okay, this is where I stop being sarcastic and start being blunt: What a load of BS!
Exactly how does a person’s ethnicity give them tens of thousands of years of knowledge? It doesn’t. If you have an Aboriginal person who grew up in the backstreets of Melbourne, and a Chinese person who grew up in the same street, they both know exactly the same amount about “ancient connection to country.” If the Chinese lady went to university and studied Indigenous history, she’d know more than the Aboriginal lady who didn’t.
It’s like assuming every Aboriginal person can play the didgeridoo. They can’t. Only those who have put in the years of practice can.
For the CDC Director-General to suggest that ethnicity alone grants you innate, expert-level scientific status—so much so that you are somehow “critical” to the modern control of infectious diseases—then we’ve officially left the realm of medicine and entered the realm of mythology. You may as well be telling us that the Rainbow Serpent is going to be drafting the next pandemic policy.
As you can tell, I have full faith in our brave, new, totally impartial CDC Director-General to make sure that future pandemics are handled with the same rigorous scientific standards of Aboriginal folklore and ten thousand years of innate medical knowledge.
How about you?
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn
You probably remember the mess that was Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You know the one: where police and military were on the streets telling you when and where you could go—all for your own good, of course, to prevent you from getting sick.
Anyway, following that authoritarian fever dream of a pandemic response, the powers that be decided, in their infinite wisdom, to establish the so-called Australian Centre for Disease Control (the CDC), which only just became a permanent, standalone agency on the 1st of January. Because as we all know, once there is a new government office and a shiny new acronym involved, everything will be under control and you won’t have a single thing to worry about.
According to their website, they are there to “protect Australia from public health threats through disease surveillance, expert analysis and trusted information.” Because as we’ve learnt, as long as you put your absolute faith in “the experts,” everything will be A-OK and definitely won’t go sideways again.
Speaking of experts, the head expert is the inaugural Director-General, Professor Zoe Wainer! Thank you to the viewer who highlighted a lot of this information.
On their official Facebook page, they even state that she is the “leader of the experts,” so she certainly knows all there is to know about disease control and management. They state: “We’re so excited to see where Zoe leads us!”
Which is comforting, because it almost sounds like even they don’t know where she’s taking us.
So, where does the lead expert wish to take us? Well, according to a recent article by The Australian: “New CDC head vows to rebuild trust, engage vaccine sceptics.”
A noble goal! Truly. We’re all going to be brought back together to make sure we’re lined up and ready for our next round of jabby-jabs.
But apart from vaccination, what does the head expert believe in? What is her background?
Well, according to a recent article by The Guardian: “‘I jumped at it’: Australia’s new CDC chief on trust, misinformation and never being surprised by a health threat.”
A little bit of trivia for you: Professor Wainer’s parents actually started the country’s first public abortion clinic. Because as we know, the best way to prove you’re dedicated to “saving lives” is to come from a family that pioneered the most efficient way to end them before they are born.
I’m sure that will go down a treat with the very people she’s trying to “re-engage.”
In the article, they reinforce that she just wants “to keep Australia safe.” But of course, in the current climate, you can’t lead a major government body unless you subscribe to the latest “progressive” dogma—and that means ensuring Indigenous Australians are at the forefront of literally everything you do.
The CDC’s core focus will be on a concept that sounds vaguely mystical called “One Health.” They describe it as “an approach that recognises the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, and the wider environment are linked and interdependent, and that experts across these sectors must collaborate if disease is to be prevented and controlled.”
And who are the experts for this? First Nations people, of course!
According to Wainer: “It’s why collaboration with First Nations people and organisations will be critical to the CDC’s work.” She claims: “My understanding… is that they’ve understood that deep connection between land, water, climate, people and animals for tens of thousands of years”
So apparently, possessing the correct lineage suddenly imbues you with tens of thousands of years of specialised medical knowledge.
Okay, this is where I stop being sarcastic and start being blunt: What a load of BS!
Exactly how does a person’s ethnicity give them tens of thousands of years of knowledge? It doesn’t. If you have an Aboriginal person who grew up in the backstreets of Melbourne, and a Chinese person who grew up in the same street, they both know exactly the same amount about “ancient connection to country.” If the Chinese lady went to university and studied Indigenous history, she’d know more than the Aboriginal lady who didn’t.
It’s like assuming every Aboriginal person can play the didgeridoo. They can’t. Only those who have put in the years of practice can.
For the CDC Director-General to suggest that ethnicity alone grants you innate, expert-level scientific status—so much so that you are somehow “critical” to the modern control of infectious diseases—then we’ve officially left the realm of medicine and entered the realm of mythology. You may as well be telling us that the Rainbow Serpent is going to be drafting the next pandemic policy.
As you can tell, I have full faith in our brave, new, totally impartial CDC Director-General to make sure that future pandemics are handled with the same rigorous scientific standards of Aboriginal folklore and ten thousand years of innate medical knowledge.
How about you?
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn




![Garbage Band, Garbage Behaviour: The Hypocrisy of Calling for Violence
Back in the ’90s, I used to listen to the American rock band Garbage. I vaguely remember enjoying their music. Fast forward 30 years, and they’ve been in the news recently. (Thank you to the viewer who sent this in.)
Actually, Scottish lead singer Shirley Manson has been in the news for using some pretty questionable language at a recent concert, Good Things 2025 in Melbourne. A guy in the audience was holding a beach ball, waving it around. Then she turned on him.
She said, “Big guy with your big f***ing beach ball! Ooh, I’m so scared of you, so thrilled by you! What a f***ing douchebag! F***ing dudes, wow. Oh my god, you’re so cool. It’s just so f***ing outrageously cool, I can’t get over it, wow. It’s disrespectful. And musicians have had enough. And we’re fed up of not getting f***ing paid properly and fed up of having to play for douchebags like you. You’re a f***ing middle-aged man in a f***ing ridiculous hat, and youre a f***ing f***face. And I want, literally, to ask people to f***ing punch you in the f***ing face. But you know what? I’m a lady, so I won’t. But truly, I would love to send my crew over to f***ing mess you up. But you know what? I won’t because I pity you because you’re a small man with a small [penis].” Or words to that effect.
Obviously, that language is completely inappropriate, particularly turning on her fans like that. According to the Good Things website, tickets cost around $270. So, this guy wasn’t just some random troublemaker; he was clearly a fan. Regarding the incident, I have a few comments:
Firstly, it’s not like the beach ball landed on stage. If it had hit the lead guitarist in the head or something, okay, maybe ask people nicely not to throw balls around. But this guy was only holding the ball.
Secondly, she called him middle-aged as some sort of insult, but she has to realise that a lot of her fans would be middle-aged by now.
Thirdly, she threatened violence: trying to get audience members to attack him, and also threatening to send her crew out. It turns out that, in a later interview, the guy admitted he was actually quite scared at the time. He said, “I felt hurt that one of my artists I’ve loved for over 25, 30 years had singled me out and made me feel very small and a bit afraid.”
Fourthly, she attacked him personally by commenting on the size of his genitalia.
Look, we all have bad days. We sometimes say something stupid. But quite frankly, the language she used was absolutely disgusting. It’s interesting that the likes of the ABC never picked up on this news. Imagine if the gender roles were reversed. Imagine if a male lead singer called out a female audience member and said:
“Little lady with your f***ing beach ball! Ooh, I’m so intimidated! You’re a f***ing middle-aged woman in a f***ing desperate outfit, and you’re a f***ing f***face! I want, literally, to ask people to f***ing drag you by the hair out of here! But you know what? I won’t because I pity you. You’re just a sad girl with small breasts.”
What a horrible thing to say, and that should be rightfully condemned. I’d imagine in this case, the ABC would be all over it:
“‘Drag you by the hair’: Lead singer promotes violence against women. In another example of public misogyny, lead singer Brock Savage of the band The Macho Axiom has exposed the toxic culture still pervasive in the music industry, sparking widespread condemnation for his violent and gendered attack.”
Tell me that’s not exactly how they’d report it. But yet, here we are with gender roles reversed: crickets. The ABC won’t even touch it. Hypocrites!
To be fair to Ms. Manson, she has allegedly apologised, although I’ll let you judge for yourself what kind of apology it was. Rolling Stone reported: “Garbage’s Shirley Manson Uses Beach Ball Apology to Raise Awareness of Palestine Humanitarian Crisis.”
The crowd in Brisbane had brought along a number of giant beach balls, perhaps as some sort of protest, or just typical Aussie larrikinism. She said, “I just have to address your glorious beach balls, they’re very impressive! And not only are they impressive, but they are very, very big. The only thing that kind of shocks me a little is there’s been more fuss made about me offending beach balls than there has about 20,000 Palestinian kids who are now f***ing under the dirt.”
To be fair, she didn’t offend beach balls; she abused a man in public who was holding a tiny little beach ball.
She continued: “Maybe a beach ball brings you joy and for that I apologise. If I upset you about your blessed beach balls, I humbly apologise. However, I would really like it if the governments of the day apologised for what the f*** is happening in Palestine.”
So obviously, on one hand, she doesn’t like violence against the Palestinian people, but on the other hand, she’s happy to publicly call for violence against one of her lifelong fans who doesn’t happen to be female. Hypocrite!
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![Disney Finally Solves Racism With Captain Durag
This is a new Disney cartoon by the name of Hey A.J.!—a music-filled family comedy about an imaginative young girl, A.J., and her stuffed bunny sidekick, Theo. It’s based on a book series created by former American footballer Martellus Bennett, who also voices A.J.’s father, Marty, in the series.
Now, this is a durag: a close-fitting cloth tied around the top of the head that is popular in African-American culture. It’s had a bit of a chequered history, with some major sporting leagues—such as the NFL and the NBA—banning the headwear. This was due, in part, to its association with crime and gang violence.
So, what do you think happens when you combine this head covering with the Hey A.J.! cartoon? You get Captain Durag, of course! A “grime fighter” in “Slime City” whose superpowers include picking up rubbish and folding clothes.
Yes, in the name of inclusivity, Disney thought it was a good idea to make a superhero based on a head covering. Essentially, he’s a walking-talking stereotype.
What’s next? Captain Burqa? She flies around the world enforcing a strictly modest dress code and lecturing people on Sharia law? Or what about Captain Poppadom and his sidekick Indian Elephant named Curry? He uses his magical poppadoms not only to feed the poor, but also as a kind of greasy, deep-fried ninja star to defeat his enemies.
And just one more, if I haven’t already caused enough offence: Captain Sombrero, who uses his magical wide-brimmed hat as a flying device to ferry undocumented workers across the southern border to a new life in the United States.
Yes, creating superhero stereotypes is easy.
But as Disney found out with Captain Durag, superhero stereotypes cause superhero levels of offence. Yahoo reported: “Disney’s New ‘Captain Durag’ Cartoon Character Ignites Backlash From the Black Community.”
As it turns out, being inclusive is a lot harder than just slapping a bit of headgear on a sanitation worker and calling it “culture.”
The irony of Disney trying to be “woke” but ending up with a character whose entire identity is wearing a head wrap and performing menial labour is not lost on me. Hmm, what does that remind me of… Captain Plantation?
I mean, if we’re assigning superpowers based on historical tropes of subservience, why stop at cleaning rubbish?
Captain Durag’s creator, Camille Corbett, has defended the character. On her X account, she has released multiple tweets defending the move. In one, she wrote: “I created the character Durag Man, now known as Captain Durag on the Disney Show, Hey AJ and I’m just finding out people are finding it problematic? I just wanted our culture to have a superhero of its own!”
In another tweet, she dressed up in a blue durag cape and wrote: “I love when art imitates life. Not all heroes wear capes, some wear durags.” She’s even released videos of herself pretending to be the character doing kung fu, writing: “Me, a Blaxploitation nerd and respectability politics hater, rushing to defend Captain Durag.”
Basically, she’s arguing that black people need not, nor should they, try to constantly conform to dominant white middle-class norms by avoiding “controversial” cultural markers. Essentially, she likes the idea of black heroes who fight back against the establishment without trying to fit in. Although, I’m not sure if Captain Durag picking up rubbish and folding laundry is quite the radical uprising against “white oppression” she thinks it is.
Corbett defended the character’s profession, noting that sanitation workers often “got the bag” (make good money). She tweeted, “It’s just one episode!!!… I don’t think we should be belittling jobs that make our society run. He is simply a [homage] to Blaxploitation films and a poke at respectability politics.”
Okay, fair enough. It sounds like she’s just having a bit of fun and trying to teach children it’s a good thing to clean up after themselves. But as I said, it’s a bit funny that we’ve gone from ‘I have a dream’ to ‘I have a bin liner’... and a tightly knotted head-wrap.
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