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Dear Paulie, what happened 50 years ago today was a terrible part of war. These lines are intended to be sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda: War Is A Killer. War Is A Killer. Berbunyi merdeka atau mati. And their ghosts can be heard in all our talk of Balibo. War Is A Killer…
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In today’s Herald Sun, Shannon Deery reports on page 11 in “Victoria kept in the dark” that: “Hundreds of government documents are being kept secret in defiance of the parliamentary orders to make them public ……. They include requests for documents relating to the Suburban Rail Loop, general rail and road maintenance infrastructure, the health…
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84 years ago today Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us (and still challenges) to rethink everything with everything he wrote. Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque…
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In the 1960’s Bob Dylan became a star as a singer of folk protest songs for change and against war and nuclear madness, but then reinvented Rock and Roll (lifting it to Nobel Prize standards) by putting personal truth ahead of the suffocating politically correct (PC) artistic coercion he met in folk circles. In the…
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In my opinion, the great artistic acts for freedom of speech in American artistic history include: Mark Twain opposing racist bigotry through The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Walt Whitman’s life long Hymn to America a.k.a Leaves Of Grass. Chaplin Celebrating the male capacity for Parental Love in his first feature film The Kid. Hank Williams…
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My story. In 1945 my father served the cause of freedom with the Australian army in Morotai and Balikpapan in what was then the Dutch East Indies. He was there when the Indonesian nation was born. In 2015 to celebrate the 7Oth anniversary of 1945, with the help of officers of each of the Indonesian…
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Lest We Forget: the 2020 State Of The Union address of February 4th was delivered by the forgotten people’s choice: Donald J Trump. Here is some of what he said: ” ….. we have shattered the mentality of American Decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America’s destiny. We are moving forward at a…
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On January First, 1953, Hank Williams died of heart failure in the back seat of a car on the way to a gig. (He had hired a student to drive him from Alabama to West Virginia to be there. Dedication.) Hank liberated the pop music voice to sound wholeheartedly and powerfully American with unparalleled directness…
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FREEDOM, JUSTICE and CIVILISED HUMANITY 