Michelle Cazzulino
Michelle Cazzulino is a Sydney writer.
Opinion
Christmas
I’ve found my Christmas nemesis. It’s hate, actually
My raging, emphatic, unstinting hatred of the elf on our shelf is only getting worse.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Social media
Go ahead, ban kids from social media, but please outlaw these grown-ups too
Curtail under-16s, by all means, but let’s not forget the adult Insta-imbeciles, LinkedIn humble braggarts, Twitter twits and the rest.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Political leadership
Albo can buy any beach house he likes, but it’s time to retire the council flat story
Some feedback from voter heartland: no one in his or her right mind thinks the PM retires to his cardboard lean-to and contemplates how to spend his last 10 bucks.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Food
Definitive proof that the cost-of-living crisis has been overcooked
I’d queue to pay for many things, but nothing so crumby as this.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Supermarkets
OK, Colesworth, here’s how to repay the $11,250,000 you swindled from me
Since I don’t have the staying power for the ACCC’s upcoming federal court battle with you, here’s what we’re going to do.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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US Votes 2024
Hey Elon, assassination is hilarious, right? #duck!
Perhaps it was overkill to use X to complain that “no one was even trying” to shoot Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Keir Starmer
Why Larry the cat of 10 Downing Street wishes Starmer hadn’t won the election
This all seems a gigantic first-world problem for Larry, who could be on the mean streets of Ohio getting eaten by Trump’s illegal immigrants.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Melbourne radio
Hats off to Melbourne for flushing Kyle and Jackie O down the toilet
The show’s response to its flagging Victorian ratings figures has been typically tasteful and classically understated.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Supermarkets
That unexpected item in bagging area is you doing all the work for your supermarket
From digital-trolley innovations to customer feedback machines, my grocers are becoming grosser by the day.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Olympics
Online searches for ‘sex Olympics’ have hit the roof. I’m not surprised
To the naked eye, the Paris Games are surely the raunchiest Olympics to date.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Olympics
Some of Paris Games commentary has been an Olympic fail
Much like the Olympic sports themselves, mastering the art of great commentary is not as simple as it seems.
- by Michelle Cazzulino