Preserving History

The Rio Tinto thing with blowing up the Juukan Gorge caves to make a road to their mine got raised in parliament. Juukan Gorge was destroyed in 2020 and it was all perfectly legal. That doesn’t make it morally or ethically right. Preserving human history wherever and whenever possible is an important thing in the

Music defines the times

The music of every era represents those times. The 1940’s was one of hope in darkness when so many faced certain death. Particularly if you were on the front line. Soldiers were determined to be able to be in battle for 240 days before their minds were totally destroyed. The good news was most of

Back to the Future

Way back in the dark ages of the early 1970’s I read an article in the newspaper of how treasure hunters had located Allied military bases that had been abandoned. The treasure hunters had found a stash of goods worth hundreds of thousands. This fuelled my desire to be one of theose treasure hunters who

Cry Havoc

Is it just me or does it seem like some leaders are very keen for a war that has the potential to consume the world yet once again? I could write volumes on this but decided that a bit of a look backwards in time to when the world was filled with uncertainty, hate, and

Subversion as a tool

Sun-Tzu outline the principles of subversion around 500BC as it was part of his writings on the art of war. He found that if you had time and patience then you could defeat your enemy without firing a single shot. He detailed these principles as follows. Cover with ridicule all the valid traditions in your

Changing Times

People, in general, have this belief that disasters happen quickly. It is a strange belief to hold as disasters almost never happen quickly and instead build over time until it can no longer be ignored. Perhaps this belief comes from modern culture and the ways in which a story must be compressed to fit into

When Society Fails

Something has been disturbing me for the past few years and like a nasty rash it can be ignored for a while until it simply cannot. The nasty rash that disturbs me is how in a country of allegedly educated people that anything of any consequence is now a case of being in one camp

Eve of Destruction

Way back in the murky mists of times past when people had the courage of their convictions and would do what it took to push back against a corrupt and broken world there were a lot of songs written that put those messages out into the world. Except of course for the ones that were

Antipodean Angst – conclusion

Anyone who writes with conviction does so from the heart and in that they experience a journey of self. It matters little if it is fiction or non-fiction. What matters is the content and the intent of what is written. Writing this essay has taken a journey that spans my entire life and involves research

Vaxx vs Unvaxxed

The push for allowing ‘freedoms’ for fully vaccinated people and denying ‘freedoms’ to those who are unvaccinated is one of the hot topics currently in Australia. It is being promoted by our political class and media, and as with anything to do with the virus it is creating a divide within society and within segments