by Stella Coram | Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am no fan of Piers Morgan, an opinionated tyrant who has made career out of putting people, who challenge establishment, such as Meghan Markle, in their place. She has been the target of media rancour, invading her privacy, by publishing letters from her father, for...
by Stella Coram | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
For my first post for 2021, I thought I might have a crack at commenting on the extraordinary events of Capitol Hill in Washington DC on January 6 2021 from the vantage point of an ‘outsider’ in Australia. My simple argument is that independent thought has...
by Stella Coram | Apr 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
It has been a tough 2020 for everyone so far and it’s not over yet. Having to undergo 14 day isolation following a weekend trip to New Zealand I watched aghast as federal and state leaders twisted themselves in knots trying to avoid any hint of having to take...
by Stella Coram | Feb 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
In January 2020, a couple in the Victorian country town of Beulah raised a flag bearing the swastika on their property citing German ancestry. The response from Council was insipid with all manner of excuses offered to explain why no action could be taken to have the...
by Stella Coram | Feb 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Following on from an earlier post, To the Manor Born, in which I outline my theory of descent for ancestor John Gotty to the ‘father’ of Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I present a pictorial representation of Gotty. There are some intriguing...
by Stella Coram | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
This post continues from previous posts examining the silences and contradictions of free speech. It is claimed that speech without consideration of its intended audience is no speech at all and that there are consequences for diminishing the importance of freedom of...
by Stella Coram | Nov 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Weekend Australian commentator, Janet Albrechtsen, published a piece (November 22-3, 2019) criticising the artist Will.i.am for suggesting that a flight attendant racially abused him on a recent Qantas flight in Australia. In my view, her criticism overreaches and...
by Stella Coram | Sep 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
The celebrated author Lionel Shriver is back in Australia doing her best to take down the hallmarks of what she sees as misguided leftist ideology such as white privilege, identity politics, cultural appropriation, and the relevance of race among other things. She...
by Stella Coram | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
An important ongoing issue within Australian media discourse is the debate surrounding the booing of indigenous athlete Adam Goodes during the 2015 Australian Football Rules (AFL) season. The view that the booing amounted to the racialization of Goodes is summarily...
by Stella Coram | Aug 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have been travelling through Europe and the UK for the past four months so my return to the desk is long overdue. Having returned to Australia there is a lot going on that I find unsettling. So, for this post I have decided to have a crack at unpicking the...
