When a government threatens a people, whether it be with lies or big stick physical therapy .. then the people have every right in the world to defend themselves from that government. Tis true, that the Corporations have this same right too – but then they’re part of the system and can afford to fight both the people and the government, they dont have to fight very hard as the government fights their battles for them. An election is where…
“There may have been no dams blocking the torrents of words. But those words were not advocacy, arguments or selling points. They were excuses, abuse of the opposition and rhetorical flourishes. One never got the impression that the King, or his economic ministers, were infused with and excited by ideas, or keen on the processes by which debate sharpened and improved a policy or a program. Indeed, particularly on economic matters (such as company tax cuts, the environment or kowtowing…
Its so hard not to judge other people on your values even when you know you shouldn’t. I suppose thats why we’re always trying to find shared values, not so that when we find them we can judge others, but so that when we’re forced into a position of judgement or when we jump into a judgement, we at least have an understanding of the meaning of those values. Much of my life is spent in being judged by others…
How we can distil the will of a whole country into the pettiness of one man and say ‘ it’s ours’ .. Or rather, let that one man say, ‘it’s yours!’? Australia says ‘He does!’. Fiji says, ‘He doesn’t’. So, our Kings off with a bag of our cash to ensure .. or perhaps to convince Fiji that ‘he does!’. Don’t we have those new Jet Fighters yet? Surely we can put more pressure on a small Pacific Island like…
Mistaking Nazism for Fascism or more correctly hiding Fascism under the decorations of Nazism. When all things old are new again. All this cry about the terrors of Nazism – and its significant that certain politicians haven’t bothered to buy into the condemnation of the recent face-off down at St Kilda … Its how it always starts. Its a testing of the waters. Perhaps thats why here in Australia it always tries its traction down at the Beach. Cronulla, St…
I don’t think that I share a single value with the King or any of his Merry Men. In fact I’d be damned ashamed of myself as an Australian if I did. Of course we don’t actually know what these values, these fair dinkum Aussie values, the King and his buffoons hold and on which they judge other Australians to be unfit to be Australians actually are. On the surface of it you’d have to think that just being a…
The King’s been out at the Cricket spreading his corruptions … Lord, can’t we just keep him at the Rugby League? I see he’s made us a gift of 40 nurses out of the money him and his men have stolen from us and hoarded away over the previous couple of years. He says that he can afford to do this because we’ve been good and paid our taxes .. because him and his thieves have invested their dosh in…
All the talk about getting kids back into a love and a desire to play Test Cricket … Talk wont do it. What they mean is how do they get the crowds back to the long game? How do you teach kids to build innings or to learn the nous to take wickets when you’re being belted all around the neighbourhood? I hear that today in Junior Cricket – and in Australia, juniors I’m told, don’t play red ball cricket…
Do we know what is our community? This is the crux of the question of just who can represent us in a Parliamentary system. We should assume this Parliament operates on democratic principles and when we can’t assume that, then we, us, the community members, must ensure that it does. I have written and debated within myself from one end to the other of this now flat Earth on this single subject – integral representation. The quality of the debating…
Don’t we wish. The problem here is that we haven’t been able to get the kids on board to the actual greening. It only takes a short walk through a camping ground to see that whatever it is the Greens have been doing since the days of old Bob Brown .. education through action isn’t one of them. Infighting and coercion through Political Correctness seems to be the main policy of the Modern Green – party politically, that is. It’s…