Massacred. Raped. Poisoned. Enslaved. Their children stolen. Their lands taken. Their religions, their culture and their languages destroyed.. yet there’s a No campaign?
In his latest column Gérard Henderson attacks Norman Swan’s credentials as a doctor by saying he hasn’t practiced medicine in years. This from a commentator who hasn’t thought a new thought in decades
Alan Joyce. You force to repeat myself. I’m the author of ‘the spirit of Australia’.Then deserved, now tragically inappropriate. My slogan is hereby vetoed. Please remove it from all fuselages, tickets and advertising.
I campaigned for homosexual law reform in the 60’s.Worked in the Treaty campaign before most of you were born.Fought for refugees.Have spent my life fighting bigotry in all its forms. Hence I was awarded the highest relevant honour- the Human Rights Medal. Apologies accepted
Margaret Court gets an AC - Australia’s top gong - in next week’s Honours List? Far worse than Bettina Arndt’s AM. Or Tony’s knighthood for the Duke. A disgraceful, shameful, tone deaf decision
Farce. Fuck-up.Fraud. Fiasco. Total failure. Shmozzle. Disaster. Disgrace.Monumental mess.Utter chaos. Idiocy. Incompetence. Couldn’t raffle a chook in a country pub. Have I missed anything?
The Frontier Wars. The massacres. The poisonings. The White Australia Policy. The Lambing Flats riots. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation movement.The Stolen Generations. Deaths in Custody.The Gap.Treatment of refugees. The NO vote. A tolerant country?
kangaroos are laying down and dying in the garden. Unharmed by fires they’re simply giving up - like scores of beautiful old trees that have shaded the homestead for many decades. Drought is a bushfire in slow motion
When a President enourages armed mobs to threaten State Govenors it is time for all living Presidents - especially GWB - to call for his removal from office - under the 25th amendment
As Chair of the National Australia Day Council it was my duty to announce the Australian of the Year. When we selected Mandawuy Yunupingu Alan Jones had an on-air tantrum. From that day on I instructed the NADC panel to always choose someone who’d infuriate Alan Jones
Remember when Barnaby was described as “Australia’s best retail politician “? I never quite understood what they meant. Now I realise the retailer was Dan Murphy
Many years ago I devised ‘the Spirit of Australia’ motto for Qantas. I’ve long since rescinded their right to use it. Under Joyce? The spirit of greed and cynicism. Shame on you Joyce - and your duplicitous cohorts in the company and in government.
Vale Barry Humphries …I’ve known you since 1956 and we did lots of things together- including three significant films - parting company because of politics differences . But I still regard you as the cleverest person I’ve ever known
Once again three cheers for Four Corners.Tonight’s episode-The Butchers from Brazil -reveals the global scale of corruption criminality and environmental destruction of JBS - company now encouraged to dominate our meat industry.Beef, pork,Tasmanian salmon.This is a HUGE scandal
Long overdue to lower the voting age to 16. It’s young lives we’re destroying with criminal climate change policy. Give them a say in their own future.
40 years ago I chaired a huge Save the ABC rally in Melbourne and had the odd experience of introducing odd-bedfellow protestors - together for the first time since the coup.Gough Whitlam AND Malcom Fraser. We need bipartisan support now.Rudd and Turnbull?Gillard and Bishop?
In his latest (and endless) Oz diatribe against ‘the taxpayer funded ABC’ Gerard Henderson, twin brother of Sen Sarah Henderson, includes me among his roll call of the reprehensible. And the ill feelings’, Gerard, are entirely mutual. You remain the world’s most crashing bore. X
Alan Joyce runs Qantas, the dying kangaroo and ‘national airline’. Gets paid $25,000,000 a year.David Anderson runs the ABC-the national broadcaster- and get $24,000,000 less. Which one does the better job?
It’s still the old conservative mantra of ‘privatize the profits socialize the losses’. If major enterprises like Qantas are to be bailed out by government they should be nationalised
12000 Londoners died due to 1952’s “Great Smog’ forcing govt to pass a Clean Air Act banning burning coal for domestic heating.I’ve just driven for 4 hrs from Sydney to the farm through our Great Smog.Learn from history you murderous clowns masquerading as leaders
Please give me a break. Dutton blaming Albo for splitting the country when he has spent almost every waking second in recent months attempting to do exactly that.
Like the PM Margaret Court is a hyperactive Pentecostal. A White Australian who endorsed Apartheid. An ardent homophobe who who insulted gay players and opposed same-sex marriage.This upgrade from her AO is calculated to outrage
Every MP must listen to this speech by Tony Benn as Parliament is recalled tomorrow morning to debate
#Afghanistan
History must not be repeated.
Goose bumps
As a longterm supporter of voluntary euthanasia- so vehemently opposed by the Vatican- I’m puzzled that Pell’s pal Abbott now supports involuntary euthanasia. Economics trumps theology?
Email from Barry Jones this morning - “the postponement of parliament puts more power - total power- in the hands of the executive - and nobody questions it, least of all the Opposition. It is in fact a coup”.
Tonight’s my last LNL. Accepted $500,000 job in New York for NSW. Vacancy at RN to be filled by John Barilaro. Thanks for listening over the past 35 years
Bob Hawke told me a joke. “There are two pieces of road kill on the Hume Highway - one’s a dead wallaby and the other’s a dead politician.What’s the difference?” “I dunno Bob”. “There are skid marks before the wallaby” He was PM at the time
#BREAKING
: Senator Fatima Payman has been suspended indefinitely from the Labor caucus:
"If Senator Payman decides she will respect the caucus and her Labor colleagues she can return," a government spokesperson said.
@SBSNews
#auspol
Nothing’s within 5 kms of my home. The shops, PO, medical centre and hospital (etc) are 20 kms . Living on a farm it’s almost 5 kms to the front gate. But not to complain - Barnaby’s our local member. Good night
For years I longed to see Lowitja O’Donahue as our first President. Now retired at 90 (with the Republic is yet again delayed) let’s have Marcia Langton as GG. No one has worked longer or more effectively on First Nation and bridge building issues All those in favour say ‘aye’
On this day in 2008 PM Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations. One of the most significant days in Australian history - boycotted by John Howard.A great speech by my friend Kevin - up there with Paul Keating’s Redfern oration