“Be doers of the word, not just hearers that deceive themselves” (James 1:22, Matt 7:24) How do you effect change when you need help to do it but so many of the people who you need the help from say they are not prepared to help until the change is effected? Australian schoolchildren took the first step this past week, they decided to opt in even though they were told that they weren’t allowed to. That’s called rebellion. And rebellion…
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…
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…
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…
Ha! So Billy Boy’s going to go it alone and force the minority neoLibNat government into acting in the best interests of the People of Australia. Fat chance, I say. Now why not ask the People of Australia – via some sort of online plebicite … I’ll set it up, easy – whether we want one. We need one for sure. Judging by the rubbish, misinformation and obfuscation we get from these fools who believe they’re ruling – ruining –…
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….