What a week we’ve had … Finally. It seems that this week Australia woke up and remembered that though we’re not a democracy, we keep getting told that we are a Democracy. Not since the 1960s,70s and 80s have we witnessed democracy in action. And who’d a thought, the children of the 2020s! After the past few decades of pathetic pandering to self interest of their Mums and Dads .. the kids, at last, broke through the cotton wool barrier….
Our chief law interpreter, our referee in legalese, Christ Porter, shows he’s more than prepared to corrupt both what he calls law, and the principles that it is supposedly built upon. Yes, he’s a lawyer, and yes, as we all know, law is a grand game .. to be played to win, a dance upon the primrose path. This is the major problem with so called modern society, neoliberal society, the game itself has no rules. The winners make the…
For eight months of the year I dont see rain and for much of that time I dont get to hear all the wonderful things that are happening in our world. It’s true, for some this would be ranked as a Utopian garden, but I dont even get fake news, although much of what I do get it would be preferred if I felt it was fake .. if I could be content for it to be fake. I do…
A Bill of Rights must stand above any future constitution and must be the guide to a new Australian Constitution. If we have to work within the framework of this old Royalist Constitution with all its enshrined inequalities and inequities and its protection of the minority called government then we will continually find ourselves battling against the odds. A Bill of Rights is a moral document and laws are made from it – not the other way around. Noel Pearson,…
Australia New Century started this day, Monday 26th Nov. 2018 Wow, what a day .. you’d think a day after you’d reversed over yourself in your own driveway, you’d keep away from the mail box. Eh? Got to give him a point, he’s ‘aving a go! They think were so fuckin stupid .. dont they? Why should we expect less? Just another expensive day of chain dragging deceit in the good old Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. While the…
They’re moving in on the old liberals within the neoLibs New Party. It’s an old trick .. butter em up and give em un-winnable positions within the Party Hierarchy or a sinicure. It’s been said that, “the first person that mentions Hitler loses the argument”. Old fashioned cover up thinking .. (and I’m trying to win an argument). While its probable that the neoLibs New Guard don’t exactly worship the man, their political machinations pay homage to his methods. Time…
I remember marching up Manly Beach .. sometime in the late 1970s .. we could do that then without the supervision of a department of State Security – no listening devices or phone cameras being waved in our faces for the future benefits of a government fear campaign – the particular occasion I’m remembering was a grand community march to have the North Head Sewage outlets removed. We didn’t achieve that but the government did come to the party and…
An unconscionable inducement to fear is surely not a value becoming of an Australian. It could be considered to be bullying .. hell, it could be considered to be terrorism. What makes it worse is that it is our publically paid for, and supposedly democratically elected, government that is producing this unconscionable fear and division amongst the People of Australia. As I think we all agree, government is at the very best .. the very best – a necessary evil….
While we’re talking terminology & since our promotion, and love affair, with technology so increases that most important entity Profit – which is perhaps our greatest love – and since this technology makes it so much more productive to make a buck with much less bang .. don’t you think its time to rename unemployment & homelessness? As technology increases profit, and the use of technology to make profit equates, naturally, to unemployment which in this New Australia equates to…
The king says he’s going to ‘debate seriously’ whether he’s going to enforce another draconian edict upon the country – for our own good, of course. Such a simple statement brings up so many delicious questions and so much interesting thought amongst those not yet cowed in their thought. In the first place, it’s doubtful that the king would know what serious debate is. I mean, whose he going to debate it with? Certainly not us, the people he’s supposed…