Australia's Not A Free Country

[brothersteve]

I can't 'like' the comment for some reason......But I like it. .

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

Hale and Pace were hilarious, m8s.

[brothersteve]

Happy Friday m8's!!!

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

Dictator Dan was involved in a very nasty road accident involving a cyclist a while ago. It's not clear if it was him or his wife driving and there are several other things that are not very clear. The whole thing stinks.
He has now been ordered to hand over his phone records after refusing to volunteer them but is now claiming he can't find them.

[denis]

Wolston Park Mental Hospital: A Site of Mass Atrocities

rememberingrandall.com/2022/06/14/wolston-park-mental-hospital-a-brief-history-of-mis-treatment-and-dead-bodies/comment-page-1/

The Qld State Government still needs to come clean. Despite the undeniable evidence of systemic atrocities, there’s never been a public inquiry into the operation of Wolston Park Mental Hospital during the 20th Century. The archive of patient notes and extensive cache of medical records are conveniently closed to the public for 100 years, to a time when no-one living has a memory of any former inpatient in Wolston Park. I have been denied access to my brother’s records by the State Archives, even though he died 42 years ago. The curators of the Remembering Goodna exhibition were not even permitted access to any of the records. It is time for the Qld government to come clean, to amend the Public Records Act, and make amends for these past wrongs by establishing an Inquiry into Wolston Park Mental Hospital in the 20th Century. Here’s how you can support the call for a public inquiry.
rememberingrandall.com/support-an-inquiry-in-wolson-park/

[denis]

From killing koalas to killing cats: How colonialism continues to underpin Australia’s culture of animal cruelty
www.abc.net.au/religion/colonialism-underpin-australian-culture-of-animal-cruelty/102697128

[denis]

Queensland senator Pauline Hanson has taken time away from her busy schedule of alienating everyone who has ever worked under the One Nation umbrella to say a nine-year-old primary school student who refused to stand up during the national anthem should be pulled out of the public education system, and that she deserves “a kick up the backside.”
www.pedestrian.tv/news/pauline-hanson-kick-anthem-protester-harper-nielsen/



davidbuckingham.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/children-of-the-revolution.pdf

In recent years, several critics have argued that, far from subverting dominant social and political values, the counter-culture actually prepared the ground for neo- liberalism. On this account, the counter-culture was not simply a failed revolution, but one whose effects were quite the opposite of those it believed it was promoting. For example, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter in their provocative book The Rebel Sell, and Jenny Diski in her memoir The Sixties detect a continuity between the hippy ethic of ‘doing your own thing’ and the rampant individualism that arguably took hold in the 1980s. According to Diski, Margaret Thatcher’s famous dictum that ‘there is no such thing as society’ was merely an extension of the hippy ethic of individual liberation. While she rejects the idea that the hippies were primarily responsible for the greed and self-interest of Thatcherism, Diski does suggest that they were ‘unwittingly... sweeping the path for the radical Right, preparing, with the best of good intentions, the road to hell for paving’.

[denis]

quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/08/upheaval-in-the-domestic-violence-industry/


The Saturday Paper quotes Professor Slater saying that he was assured by a representative from the VicHealth that he shouldn’t be too concerned about his evidence being omitted: “We need to imagine this future society that we want to live in. And that vision is not about alcohol. It’s not about class.” Indeed not. Their vision is about neutered men, kowtowing to women.

[denis]

GARY GROTH: Do you have any regrets about not going to Australia?

R. CRUMB: Well, I didn’t until you told me that the streets were full of Crumb girls. [Laughter.]

Which they are.

That's when I started regretting it. [Groth laughs.] That’s about it. Otherwise, I didn’t want to go that badly. I wouldn’t have even thought of going at all if Jordan Verzar had just asked me outright, but when he sent me those photos — that was it.

Yeah, that sold you.

He did his job well. [Laughs.] Otherwise, really, what’s in Australia for me? It’s a 22-hour plane ride… Did I read you Terry Zwigoff’s note to me? After he’d read the whole thing on the Internet about what happened, he said, “What are you really going to miss? A backbreaking plane ride of some 20 hours, another dog-and-pony slideshow and discussion in front of some aging hippies, sitting in with one of the worst bands I’ve ever heard — someone showed them to me on YouTube. From people I’ve talked to, Australia’s filled with even more boisterous, drunken hoopleheads than America, so you won’t be missing much.” [Laughter.]

[denis]

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-12928603/amp/Australia-family-Asia-cost-living.html
The family have been back Down Under for Christmas and the holidays but Jimmy admitted they might fly back abroad earlier than expected because of several 'confronting' things he's noticed.

In a new TikTok video on his page @themothfamily, Jimmy said it's the 'little things' that are most different compared to South East Asia like kids playing outside and strangers saying 'hello' on the streets

'I didn't think I would ever say this, but Asia has ruined Australia for us,' Jimmy, cofounder of digital marketing agency My Online Guy, said.

'We've been back [in Australia] for three weeks now, we're supposed to be here for two months but we may even leave earlier now.'

He said being away for an extended period of time has 'exposed' the little differences between Australia and Asia - the first being how most people Down Under 'don't acknowledge others in public'.

'I took the dog for a walk the other day and I was just walking along the street and there were several people I passed… I waved and said hello, not a single person acknowledged me,' he said.

'That's something I never noticed when we lived here but coming from South East Asia where everyone is friendly, everyone says hello, everyone waves, everyone smiles, it's really quite confronting.

'I don't necessarily know why that is, maybe it's just the area that we're staying in, maybe people like to keep to themselves? It's little things that I'm noticing that really make me miss Asia and make me wonder what has changed in Australia to make it feel this way?'

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

I think Australians are quite friendly but I'm comparing them to when I lived in London and SE EnglandUK though, m8s.

[denis]

amp.abc.net.au/article/102160726
Around 62 per cent of Australians report being abused and neglected in childhood, major study finds


"When we saw [that] ... the air went out of the room," said Holly Erskine, a senior researcher at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.

The study, commissioned by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the federal government, is considered a world-first due to its depth and scope.

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

[denis]

link

[denis]

They have a cunning plan

You Will Eat Bugs. You Will Enjoy Them
quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/climate-change/you-will-eat-bugs-you-will-enjoy-them/


This food transformation is being organised top-down from the United Nations with its 17 so-called Sustainable Development Goals endorsed by the 193 members, including Australia. Insect-eating is also a pet project of the billionaire/trillionaire club of “Davos Man”, namely the World Economic Forum. And everywhere that Greens groups have gained political powers, the assault on high-tech farming and livestock is under way — notwithstanding backlash from organised farmers in the Netherlands and France.

In Australia, our efficient and world-leading farming and pastoral industries are under assault from every woke direction — the climate crowd, Green lawfare against growers and exporters, conservation zealots, and the Aboriginal Industry’s land-rights brigade.