Corporativism, Neo-liberalism and Australia in the 21stC – just paradise .. aint it? I’ve been caught by the corporate month. I thought I had that all sorted … 28 days. That old fella up at Vittoria was right, were fucking about with the time too much. No wonder we’re all so confused. Gives one a whole new view of the world having to rely on the moon to tell the time. A few dark clouded nights and .. well, you…
A branch secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia and president of the NT Trades & Labour Council, Thomas Mayor, part of the Uluru convention, has been touring the country to help build support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. “We’ve just had this amazing moment [with the Uluru statement], we’ve been pushing it, and we’re going to get sent to the back of the bus to wait for a republic that does nothing to empower our people,” he said….
Such a wonderful World, such a lucky country … I see the Kings decided that its okay for his charity to feed all those hungry Aussies his ministers decrees have thrown out onto the streets with no recourse to .. well, government aid. Shame he couldnt get away with his neoliberal bidding process on a thing like poverty, as he appears to have done with Human Rights and Dignity. What’s gone wrong? Surely the recent massive overreaction to State Security…
Isn’t it absurd that a debate can be decided like a flower show, with a show of hands. This is effectively how our so called democratic parliament works. Things, ideas, concepts .. dare I say laws .. issues of the utmost importance to the common mass of the people within our society are decided by a small group of people – who in most cases have no more knowledge of the issues than the common man in the street and…
Australian Values? What are Australian Values? Who judges? Are they Peter Dutton’s or Julia Gillard’s values? Are these values Christian Porter’s or Caroline Chisholm’s? Are they Ned Kelly’s or those that threw up the stockade at Eureka’s values? Are they the values of Scott Morrison or the values of Stan Grant? Are they Fred Hollow’s or the values of those thrown ashore at Gallipoli’s? Who judges? Are they the values of John Howard or the values of Gough Whitlam? Who…
Why is Fascism infiltrating the National Party? Because that’s how Fascism works, by infiltration. Why the National Party? Because it’s a small dying Party holding on to the coat-tails and trailing in the wake of their brother party of false value and self interest the nLNP. History … It’s repeating. Fascism thrives on ignorance, self interest and complacency .. and it judges that the mass of man are sufficeintly consumed with false interest and are sufficeintly cowed by deceit and…
Why is neglect not cruelty? I mean, it’s not hard to see that living in an age that prays to gold, how man can ignore anything that falls outside their narrow scope. How we can build little pink bubbles & shore them up with false value. Anything, anything we can use to deny the physical realities of the tangent world – the world that is; from wherever it’s viewed, common to all beings – we snatch at. The thicker the…
I see our Foreign Affairs Dept has prevented an Aussie Senator – one of our elected representatives – from going to have a look at whats going on behind the scenes in our Penal Resort on Nauru .. they say these ‘transitory humans’ are none of Australia’s business! They’re in transit twixt Heaven and Hell … Don’t they wish! They’re in paradise, lost to paradise and moving on. Now, from where I view this World of ours – and I…
What possible reason can Australia have to move our embassy in Israel from beautiful down town Tel Aviv .. on the beach .. to Jerusalem? What possible benefit can this be to us here in the Lucky Country? Sounds downright dangerous. To the man in the street it appears sheer insanity. Inanity. I can’t believe that it’s only about a petty cling to power by the King and his brood of vipers … Surely not? I mean it can’t be…
Horror, Horror Shock Shock* It’s a shocking thing. Today I’ve had to watch two groups (couples both) rummaging through the garbage bins here at a road side rest stop – coke, bits of Macca’s, my old hommus etc – right now there’s a fella here eating my old hommus while his mate upends the other bin. This I’d imagine is a direct result of Christ Porter’s ‘Stick of Dignity’ & his Cash-Cow Welfare system. The vehicle they live in comes…