The Death Of An Icon.
Warning. Some of these images may contain photos of deceased Aboriginal people. I had a feeling the tree was no longer standing. I went up to the summit to check, and sure enough, marking the […]
Desert Star
Captain of Solitude
I am delighted to announce, after more years than I can tally, that I now have the first published copies of my book, Captain of Solitude, in my hands. I only ordered a small number […]
Statement From The Heart
The Uluru Statement From The Heart is the most important, and most certainly the most unifying document ever to emerge from the Indigenous people of Australia. Following the profound disappointments of the past 15 to […]
The Adolts Are In Charge
So this is what happens when ‘the adults are in charge’; or should that be A-dolts? These were the words of the sewer rat Tony Abbot when he clawed, bit, and scratched his way to […]
POOR BUGGER ME: Bill LEAK
When I heard about Bill Leak’s death, I felt a little guilty. I didn’t like the man he had become, but I certainly didn’t wish him dead. Then I heard or saw reports from […]
Turnbull vies with John Kerr for drunken dummy-spit.
I was one of many Australians of the left, who really felt for Malcolm Turnbull when he was stabbed in the back by the repulsive thug Tony Abbot, and when he had the shit kicked […]
Uluru Revisited
A chance phone call from the regional mananger of ABC Alice Springs Radio 783, Stewart Brash, has stirred my memories of attending the handover of Uluru back to the traditional owners in 1985. Stewart traced […]
Aboriginal ‘Policy’ and the LCP.
Tony Abbott likes to portray himself as the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, a claim which sits comfortably alongside the claim that he believes in global warming and has the policy to lower emissions. It’s […]
Crossing the Nullabor, 2014
Phew! The appropriate one-word summary of a journey across the Nullabor Plain. Our crossing was done from a Sunday to the following Saturday; i.e., seven straight days of driving, averaging something over 400 kilometres a […]