Hello Mr Chips Chips: I know the world’s changing, Dr. Ralston. I’ve seen the old traditions dying one by one. Grace and dignity and feeling for the past. All that matters here today is a fat banking account. You’re trying to run the school like a factory for turning out money-making, machine-made snobs! You’ve raisedContinue reading “Another Look At Things”
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A Parliament Of Fools
Monoculture To receive all who shall come, without enquiring who or what they are. Tom Paine The Rights Of Man Part 2 Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN 1948 France to the French, England to the English, America to theContinue reading “A Parliament Of Fools”
Voices For Change
Figurehead For Sale There is a villainous politician adrift in AustraliaTodayNo name neededActions do speak louder than wordsShe’s a racist, through and throughDespising differenceShe’s a sycophant of the deep-pocketedObediently hating working classes and unionsShe ignores the power of science and educationDespising climate change findingsFor her net zero is destroying her countryShe poses as a reformerContinue reading “Voices For Change”
Thoughts Still Flowing
The Communist “He’s a Communist.” Andrew Bragg on the Prime Minister. That politician cares for the needyHe takes the money away from the greedyTaxes the rich with a welfare intentSo that the money is clearly well spentHe’s a communist His party pays our medical costAnd so a balanced budget is lostBig spending they say hisContinue reading “Thoughts Still Flowing”
A Voice Of The People
Angels In Disguise For Sam and Josh Well there I was, virtually immobileRequiredTo visit my doctor in the giant maze of a hospitalI drive no moreSo my travel was with Patient Transport ServiceNot easy for meWalking is so hard and balance is shakyThere I was when a knock came on my doorIt was a tallContinue reading “A Voice Of The People”
Poseurs And Power
Asylum As a party to the Refugee Convention, Australia is bound to protect refugees in compliance with the Convention. Article 33 contains one of the key responsibilities agreed to — the principle of non-refoulement – that is, to ensure people who are found to be refugees are not sent back to a country where theirContinue reading “Poseurs And Power”
Trammels On A Crooked Road
Right And Wrong Hey!Don’t say I am a left wing kind of personThat makes me sinister according to RomeOr gauche according to ParisActually I am adroitOr leaning to the right as the French might sayI choose my own word howeverActually I am remedialI want to fix things upCure the social illness all around meFame isContinue reading “Trammels On A Crooked Road”
Misdeeds Around Us
On A Sinister Role Model Hitler was a man with wicked dreamsMonoculture was one of his schemesHis land was similar to a White AustraliaIf not Aryan it would be a failureThis vile man to his very last breathSaid if you’re different you deserve deathHis rich acolytes had weapons to peddleIf they joined him he gaveContinue reading “Misdeeds Around Us”
Recent Thoughts
Love Is Love is sunshine after a rainy dayA refugee’s composure when kindness has its wayA lonely old man’s gratitude when aged care arrivesYour ailing child who with medical aid survives Love is a gentle breeze amidst harsh summer heatMoonlight where inamoratas meetA shelter for a traveller amidst pouring rainA gentle smile when music yieldsContinue reading “Recent Thoughts”
Some Hidden Truths
The Party’s Tradition So the party’s tradition must be respectedMore than eighty years of noble historyLet us analyse this then for the recordFreedomAh yes freedom!Freedom to run a businessNo or low taxesNo government intrusionNo control over the biased mediaNo intrusion into a free marketBy the people’s parliamentIn other words free enterpriseTruly freeSmall governmentAided by privatisationUnburdenedContinue reading “Some Hidden Truths”
