We are assured our alleged alliance with our great and powerful friend, the United States, is based on shared values. Really? I went to the pictures the other day, to see a doco about Aussie football. It featured a focus on winning, certainly, but by means of teamwork, having fun, having a healthy family life… Read More Shared values?
The emptiness of modern Labor is now on full display: maligning refugees, promoting fossil fuels, tinkering around the edge of social crisis, pandering to the wealthy, condoning mass murder, adopting policies of Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison. [Published at Pearls & Irritations, 10 Dec 2023.] Labor’s reaction to the High Court’s decision to outlaw indefinite detention… Read More Labor Losers
The old political parties are still fighting last century’s political battles from within their traditional colonial mentality. Each has completely lost touch with its founding purpose.… Read More AUKUS: Sordid, Dated Domestic Power Games of Cringing Colonials
War traumatises people, who then become fearful. Their response to conflicting needs or wants is to fight. Thus war perpetuates itself. Perhaps that is why written history, the kind that tells the stories of cities and empires, is such mayhem. Perhaps it is why many people claim we are innately evil, even though most of us usually live peaceably in our neighbourhoods.… Read More The Spiral of Conflict and Trauma
It is possible to create a much fairer, safer and more durable society than we have at present. The means are available, if we dispense with myths and special interests. It is there for us to do.… Read More A Thrival Budget
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