Three wise men have nothing to say about the ABC. Find out on Skynews.

Fascinating reading the daily feeds on the internet these days. On the ABC news webpage thingy* not one mention of the Liberal Party’s National Council’s intelligent decision to knock off the ABC. The motion put forward by the IPA is a sound one. Sell it off, or let someone else run the show for ALL Australians. We at pcbycp heartilly agree, and hope that with Clive Palmer Mk2, The United Australia Party, lies the man with the integrity, honesty and trust for facts to put at the helm. With Clive at the wheel we know the ABC would be WELL RUN!. May not be so good for the staff, but with privatisation the shareholders would get a bloody good dividend. From the asets sales, buildings, infrastructure, wireless sets and Tony Jones thought-bubbles, a pretty penny could be returned to those with the integrity to stump up the cash. And a bit like Clive’s nephew, they could sock away all those profits, (probably much the same as Rupert does when he gets a taxpayer free subsidy or gift) to then fuck off to Hungary and never ever be seen again. That’s accountability. And Asic wont go near em. Cos those corporate regulators are SOFT-COCKS!

So go on! We dare you. Take a look. There’s nothing TODAY on the ABC news website about selling it off. It’s almost like it NEVER REALLY HAPPENED. Spose that’s why Josh and his mates were on Skynews, (the only unbiased authoritative news desk) to tell us it was just a bit of a joke. That the national council and it’s young turks only put it up unaminously as  sort of confected Tony Jones thought-bubble. Bit like the intervention, which never ever really happened. So there’s nothing to see here, and if you’d move along we could focus on more important issues like how Australia is going in the World Cup, and how Vladimir really aint such a bad bloke. Without him, western democracies would be stuffed. 

The Two Clives. The one on the right has promised the one on the left he’ll be Attorney General when he’s P.M. Mateship at work.

Guest of Honour at the Liberal Conference. Our Greatest PM EVER!!

That’s what Clive reckons. He reckons if we just pulled together, he’d offer us a rational alternative. He’s got the simple answers to complex questions and knows as a bible belt fundamentaist Queenslander what Australia needs. We need to respect institutions that make this country great. And we need to restore trust in politicians, so that we can pat them on the back when their brother in law or nephew socks away millions on workers rights and pisses off to Hungary. Cos that’s what makes this country great. Seliing off stuff you don’t own to mates and telling em all awhile that as a great Aussie, just like Tony, Malcolm, and the inner sanctum of the IPA that Aussies have never had it so good. And that’s the RIGHT STUFF! So no Aussie cricketer will ever be embarrassd by a fragment of yellow sandpaper. So that no kiddy may ever wonder about the glory of our founding fathers. And no little mother need ever question the righteous need for good men to stone women as dictated in the Old Testament. Good values is what this country needs. And Clive has the answers. 

But you probably wont read that on the ABC either. Go ask Mr Mensinck, (his nephew) and top marks.

Clive Mensink, before he pissed off to Eastern Europe.

If you can find him. 

* They just put one in with Shorten decrying the decision.(Monday morning)…

Bonjour mes amies,

Start your day with a laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmDf7QP5XFs

In 1971 when we did an epic road trip from Calgary (Alberta, Canada) to the Panama Canal on our way back to Australia, our route included the 300 Km stretch from Nashville Tennessee to Birmingham Alabama. From Birmingham we travelled South to New Orleans Louisiana.

In April 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In August 1969, Hurricane Camille, one of the 20^th Century’s deadliest hurricanes hit the US States of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. By the time we travelled through the Deep South, the social and physical aftermath of both calamities remained palpably evident.

In Birmingham the Negro (which African Americans were referred to back then) suburbs had a de-facto curfew operating. Whites (‘Pinks’ would be a more accurate description) avoided these areas and as we drove through, we were followed by disbelieving stares (“What them Honkys doin’ round heeya?”)

When we came to no-man’s land we stopped at a small shop which was still open at dusk. As we walked in, the white lady behind the counter asked us what we wanted, as if the black people who preceded us into the shop were invisible. Our body language implying we were quite prepared to wait our turn, revealed our non-local provenance.“Where yoowall from?” We replied “Canada” (less complicated than “Australia”). The hostile stares from the black people in the shop showed us we had broken local protocols by acting in a non-arrogant way, thereby denying them the opportunity to despise us. After making a few purchases, the lady told us, in a mile long drawl that we had “the cutest lil’ol accent” which just goes to show accents are in the ears of the beholder.

Further South, as we entered Louisiana, we turned into a welcoming place with free coffee.

All along the highway there were derelict boarded up farm houses obviously vacant and covered in lianas vines and creepers. Reclaimed by the swamp.

Hurricane Camille had destroyed many houses and extinguished many homes.

All the same, Louisiana had a friendlier atmosphere. The black/white divide was far less evident.

The Band – Across The Great Divide – 1970….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPwytwZ3jg

Often when I walk into our shop, me being the kardiya (non-Warlpiri) who tries to manage it, I’m immediately accosted with questions: “are the pies hot?”,“can we get diesel here?”,“do you sell bicycle tubes”. These questions aimed at me are as if the Warlpiri ladies behind the counter are invisible. “Payunumpa Nampijimpa?” (did you ask Nampijimpa?) “she says the pies are still cold” “Yijardu wankaja” (She was telling the truth). Or to the kardiya tourists “We certainly do, these ladies will look after you”

I’m currently savouring Alexis Wright’s 2006 Novel ‘Carpentaria’. I’m consuming it like one does fine liqueur – a tiny glass at a time- I’ve nearly finished it.

Desperance manages to be simultaneously similar and entirely different to Gabriel García Márquez’ Macondo and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Also in places the novel makes me think of Salvador Dali paintings especially his famous melting clocks. It’s a roller coaster ride, a torrent of words, a kaleidoscope which slips from reality to surrealism from social comment to farce to hilarity and tragedy to spirituality and superstition, intelligence and ignorance, love and evil, greed, hate and compassion. It’s one of those books which allow the reader to read into it what he or she wishes. As someone who has lived on an Australian Aboriginal community I’ve found it full of pearls of wisdom and little shining metaphorical gems.

At one stage Will Phantom who is being hunted by the helicopter borne heavies from the Mine as well as the Federal constabulary for various acts of sabotage and defiance, manages to slip the net by absconding from Desperance in one of Mozzie Fishman’s convoy ‘rustbuckets’. The police have a problem- not a single photograph of Will can be found. A line-up of Will’s relatives is no help- they don’t even look all the same and all look different. To the kardiya Will Phantom lives up to his name- he is invisible.

Many of the officials, bureaucrats, inspectors, politicians, enforcers, consultants, mentors, instructors, contractors, opportunists, controllers, facilitators, and other visitors to Yuendumu, arrive saturated in opinions and preconceptions, armed with pre-written reports, agendas and recommendations. They talk exclusively to kardiya residents or to each other. They know best.

Yapa are invisible.

….Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest…. Simon and Garfunkel ‘The Boxer’..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QjbG_5UGNE

A bientot,

François

Everything! Yet Nuffink!

Something strange is afoot. Something sinister lurks within our midst. Something so evil it cannot be mentioned. The threat of suicide. Just when you thought the debasement of western democracies couldnt get any worse, people whom we assumed were impregnable to self reflection are topping themselves. And they’re topping themselves like ninepins. And the psychiatrists and self-help gurus, ’want to know the reason why”?

They had everything, Luxury, the opportunity to travel wherever and whenever, and the need for designer clothes, labels, handbags, accessories, everything at their fingertips, and yet… sought death. 

Had the complete knife set. The wok set also!

What is happening? How do we equate this self immolation to the high water mark of consumerism. They had everything, and yet, in the end that had a big fat “O”. Or in everyday speak, “they had Everyfink and yet they had Nuffink”! And what comes ffm Nuffink? It begs the answer, we say.. Nuffink!!

But deep down we know there’s something terribly wrong, These were highly intelligent enterprising people at the top of their game, Why checkout? When it toolk so long to check in?.

And what existential crisis did they suffer to do such a thing?

Was it stress?, the thought of another celebrity spot on reality television, ? Or just entropy of knowing they had hit the top, and there was nowhere to go? Did they feel like Elon Musk’s zombie sports car driver, destined to drift forever, in a fools orbit bound for a victims future.? 

Beryl Tonks, Inventor of ” Tonkware” found dead!

Would our politicians suffer the same fate? Would Barnaby and his missus ever contemplate doing such a thing? Nah, they’re in for the long haul ensuring the public pays for their sense of entitlement, rather than doing it on their own back. We suspect Bourdain and Spade, never liked the idea of sitting in a cushy sinecure whilst growing their investment portfolio of housing stock. Nup, these are enterprising self defining people. No place for them in Australian politics. 

So what’s at work here?

What’s killing the fashionistas???

What’s killing the celebrity chef’s?

What’s killing the muso’s?

Which begs the question; “Why isn’t “IT” killing “US”?

Alfered E Neuman. Industrialist. Killed by his own instagram.

Is it that the only thing left to express your freedom is to make simple decisions is to top yourself? And in doing so you make a little contribution to ease the pressure on the planet. By doing so you affront the notion of special status. You eschew the notion of “Order of Australia”, and you achieve immortality, not for what you’ve done, but how you left the stage, and walked into the night.  And , (this is the best part) you don’t have to live through the second and third installments of Kevin Rudds Biography. 

Dsiclaimer, “ If you know of anyone who is experiencing mental illness, please call Life-Line, Beyond Blue, or our hotline, “Psychiatrists need to pay off Ferrari’s and Swimming Pools benefit fund”, 04004044006, and our specialist call centre operators will keep you on hold for so long you’ll lose interest in topping yourself, and just go shopping instead’. 

The new pcbycp Institute Building. Making good use of useless on-campus infrastructure. Soon to be renamed the “Rinehart Centre” for enterprising wealth distribution.

PCBYCP MBA Graduates from overseas, celebrate fashion labels.

We are not worried at the pcbcyp Institute about the increased reliance on foreign students in keeping our university system going. (NSW Universities report). WE at pcbycp don’t get one cent of government funding and rely one hundred percent on donations. Our new International Master of Business Administration course is completely booked out for the next ten years, and demonstrates a way of making universites entirely independent of government funding. We are happy to announce  our student population is 100 percent overseas derived,   and locals are ineligible due to our strict performance criteria. Thus, easing the burden on the taxpayer and aided by the odd bit of philanthropic largesse from very wealthy Australians. Those who make a substantial contribution to Austrlian cultural life, by paying no tax, and preserving the right to have very nice buildings named after them. 

We reject the papers findings that an over relience on fee paying students makes our universities vulnerable. It also suggested that fee paying students from just one source establishes a vulnerability. We reject that out of hand. Nonsense, 

You have to believe in something, a PCBYCP MBA!

Universities quite correctly have followed the Federal Government initiative and dismantled, thinking and research. We applaud the Abbott government in particular for defunding the CSIRO and feel that recent decisions by the recently discredited Deputy Prime Minister to move whole departments to safe electorates so that valuable public space and ex government offices can be opened up for real estate don’t get enough credit.  It shows a way forward that ensures there’s more black ink on the bottom line. And that ensures greater efficiencies and better long term strategies moving forward. 

You see moving forward is where Uni’s need to go. Uni’s are not the place where PHD’s delve into obscure realms which  may shed a light upon the reason, why?, They must lead by example with accredited MBA’s to ensure that from top to bottom good management. And to achieve this we need whole departments of MBA’s and administrators and support staff, and fund managers and grant application managers and bequest managers to ensure that funds are chanelled directly from philanthropic bodies to make the greatest possible use of the rivers of gold that flow from overseas students. 

Pushing the Envelope. The New Pcbycp Admin building, voted 1# Ugliest use of former public space. Leadership, and IMAGINATION!

And to ensure effciencies, they need only look to pcbycp

The Pcbycp MBA bookshop stocks books you wont find anywhere in CHINA. But will be soon closing after forced merger with MUP and Media wing of CCP.

The pcbycp “Four In One Package”, an exclusive offer. “Hurry”! Offer ends June 31.

That’s why at pcbycp our Centre for Leadership and Business offers a one stop degree. It incorporates for the super competitive price of 155,000 yuan per annum an additional MBA accreditation, and the choice of three or more degrees for the modest down payment of 250, 000 yuan per annum, (indexed with CPI) for five years. We also offer the “four in one” package, Visa, Permanent residency, membership of the Liberal or Labor Party fundraising teams and a choice of Georgian, Neo Georgian, Sino Georgian or French Empire on our stunning pcbycp accredited housing land packages. Each package in advantageously desirable suburbs such as Balwyn, Box Hill and East Camberwell, come with artistically designed filligreed fleur de lys wrought iron gates intercom and facilities for washing banknotes. Each student will be entitled to one token to attend book launches sponsored by the IPA, and unrestricted access to the gaming room at the Crown Plaza Towers. But hurry, this offer expires 1st July 2018.

Anonynous donations can be made to the pcbycp future direction fund, or a fast stream donation to Mathew Guy, State Oppisition leader, c/o “Ill Cacciatori Seafood Restaurant”, Brighton. A receipt will be provided as proof countersigned by Michelle Gatto, (Insurance Broker). 

And our motto, “PCBYCP Institute, Ensuring there’s “Life after Debt”. 

Aussie gentleman at work on the field of valour. Australian SAS detatchment out on a “meet and greet” courtesy visit.

Dear reader, we know many of you are disturbed by hearing reports of ungentlemanly behaviour by Australia’s crack SAS and Commando units. We’ve been told of alleged atrocities and firece inter-unit rivarly which it is alleged has exploded upon the field of combat.  We are shocked by the suggestion that innocent civilians may have been “ knocked off” by Australian special forces, and not given the right of a fair trial, or at the very least a cigarette and bottle of beer before facing the firing squad. 

Aussie commando’s, display “Getting to know you” headgear.

These are all allegations, but allegations nonetheless that go to the very core of the loyal, noble eternal unquestioning legagy of Anzackery and our god-ordained right to uphold civilisation to lesser peoples who inhabit places devoid of the benefits of our way of life, midday television, shopping 24/7 and the soon to be launched second volume of the Keving Rudd autobiography. 

HRH. Prince Harry. Proof that the SAS is a ” Gentleman’s Club”

This flurry of allegations is deeply troubling. And as the famous Chinese strategust Sun Tzu, and the great German pan grand strategist Clausewitz said, “ war is all about making damn sure that the winner is glorious, and the enemy, crushed righteously without recourse to an ignoble failure”. And as Australians we have practised this principle for over two hundred years where we haven’t even graced the massacre of the first Australians a proper people worthy of the sobriquet “enemy”. And that’s cos they didn’t understand real estate. Inadvertently they bought it on themselves, and seem still. “ungreateful” for our generosity of spirit in allowing them to attend ANZAC day marches with ordinary Australians. 

Still, reflections aside, we are deeply worried about this talk of atrocity. It seems incomprehensible to our thinking that, after all the glorious incursions into other countries affairs as lackey to our glorious allies, that anything other than bounty could be applied. 

And…”No innaproprite touching”

For example, the fact that a  few Afghani’s get killed by special forces is a small price to pay for civilisation. Drones kill dozens each day and we never hear of it. And why focus on Australians, when we’re only there to help, and the whole reason for being in Afghanistan in the first place is beyond questioning. 

It all seems a bit “Breaker Morant” to us. Yes of course there’ll always be some casualties. Ordinary people caught up in  the wrong place at the wrong time, but to suggest that our troops are indifferent to the sufferings of foreign people is absurd. We have the worlds most succesful multi-cultural experiment on earth, bound by the glue of Real Estate and mortgages. We understand foreigners. WE are familiar with “them” in the exotic foods section of the supermarket. To question the bona-fides of our troops puts the whole edifice of everything we stand for into question. And that would be un-Australian. 

Anzacs united in Multiculturalism!!

And besides, they’re only Afghani’s and they don’t even, have a cricket team. Which means no only haven’t they got a sporting chance, they don’t understand the  concept of ‘fair play’. That’s cos they don’t wear uniforms, and it’s bloody difficult in the heat of battle to tell friend from foe. Which can only imply one thing, “They’re not Gentlemen”. 

And that’s not cricket. 

This Musical Dispatch From the Front is edited from one first published 30 June 2012

Several Dispatches ago I told you about the plane load of bureaucrats that landed on Yuendumu airstrip. The bureaucrats attended an unattended meeting.
There’s a meetin’ here tonight…. http://youtu.be/-fECUAJ5H5M

 Last week I happened to be at Yuendumu airstrip when a charter plane landed which disgorged three passengers. I offered them a lift ‘into town’ that they gratefully accepted as ‘they’d made no arrangements’.

They had come to Yuendumu to inspect the Men’s Safe House.

At the beginning of the Intervention a contractor installed a converted shipping container as a ‘Men’s cooling-off place’. At the time I came to the conclusion that the ‘cooling-off place’ had been designed by the same architect that had designed Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay. The several strands of barbed-wire at the top of the chain-wire mesh fence, the padlocked chain on the gate and the spotlights surrounding the Spartan building are reminiscent of TV images I had seen during the time that David Hicks was receiving similar consular assistance from the Australian Government as Julian Assange is currently receiving.

I also found it hard to envisage Warlpiri men embracing the facility as a ‘cooling-off’ place.

The intervention had tens of these so called ‘cooling-off’ places installed throughout the NT. The contractor made a killing.

The perceived and implied need for these “cooling-off’ places is yet another way remote Aboriginal communities have been stigmatized.

No discussion or consultation with locals preceded the decision to install these facilities.

One word: GRATUITOUS

I drove the two men and the lady that had emerged from the plane to the padlocked ‘cooling-off’ place. I found out it had been renamed the ‘Men’s Safe House’.

The lady exclaimed: “It looks like it has never been used!” Well spotted! It never has.

One word: SUPERFLUOUS           http://youtu.be/IKsTyGxrjGU

An hour later the charter plane took off on its way to another community made safer by the erection of an Intervention Safe House.

To pay a local organisation or individual to inspect the unused Safe House, take a few photos and knock a few walls to check for muluru (termites) would require a paradigm shift the Intervention is incapable of.

A much more likely scenario is that a plane load of experts, consultants, mentors and trainers lands at Yuendumu airstrip to run a course leading to a Safe House Inspector’s Certificate.

One word: VISIONARY

http://youtu.be/zoDIhxeZtKI

Early yesterday morning the Australian Parliament passed the Stolen Futures Legislation. One word: VISIONARY

In Brazil meanwhile they have introduced a scheme that allows prisoners to reduce their sentences by reading books.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-26/brazil-prisoners-to-read-books/4093762

“A person can leave prison more enlightened and with an enlarged vision of the world,” said Sao Paulo lawyer Andre Kehdi, who heads a book donation project for prisons. “Without doubt, they will leave a better person,”

Now that is what I call visionary!

So which is the Banana Republic ?

Mr. tallyman tally me-banana  

http://youtu.be/lciensCCWG4

Obrigado por ler esta expedição

 Francisco

 As long as I can see the light…..

http://youtu.be/IgH6N669OhE

The lesser sinecured featherbedder, vulnerable to the lure of WOMANKIND! Threatened with extinction

Every day we hear about another critically endangered species. Just yesterday we heard about the near extinction of the “lesser supine populist feather-bedder”, (Barnaby and his missus) and the unprecedented attack upon the “Superior autocratic corporate sociopath” in the Banking Royal Commission.  Farmers in far North Queensland, (FNQ!) who’ve had leases on their properties as far back as the late 90’s, and some on land they actualy paid for, are being told they can’t clear the land. Along the coast, sugar farmers, who constitute an integral part of the sugar food chain which gives untold benefits to dentists, dieticians and diabetes sufferers is under threat from the indsidious encroach of renewables.   

A future Flicka may be amongst these horses destined to be KILLED unless we change our greenish ways!!

As the famous sage David Suzuki said, “it only takes a heartbeat and what we take for granted may be gone forever”. And as the other famous sage Lord Rupert of Murdoch famously said; “The rent seeking corporation must have a supine, passive unquestioning body politic, or it’s very existence is threatened”. Indeed, right across Australia, systems and orthodoxies that go to the very core of Australian culture are being questioned. The right to run-down indigenous Australians in drive-bys, questioned. The right to exclude women from positions on boards, questioned. The right to imprison indigenous Australians for their own good willy-nilly, questioned. And the right, (we’ll get to this later) to turn all our universities and research institutions into visa factories, questioned. 

The very fabric of our society is under threat. It’s time we joined with the IPA and stood for principle and the integrity of those institutions that make us great. 

The capacity of quaint folk to wear their ethnic costume and hold up city traffic is THREATENED!!

Alarming then, the questioning of the recent  intitaiative by the New South Wales Government to allow Brumbies, (wild horses to our international guests) to  roam free over out alpine national parks. The Brumbies represent a tradition dating back as far as 1958 when Chips Rafferty turned down the original offer to star in “The Man from Snowy River”. They also represent the highest point, the romantic apogee of the acclimatisation society to make our alps look a little bit more like Montana or anywhere else. We support the maintenance of a burgeoning brumby polulation  in as much as we lead the cheering for the augmentation of our national parks with goats, cats, foxes, dogs, deer, camels, pigs and any other animal that has arrived since the arrival of midday television. Cos to understand the Australian environment without familiar barnyard creatures is beyond the imagination of the ORDINARY AUSTRALIANS. 

Turning useless forest into grazing land is THREATENED!

So stand with us and defend the wild horses, and those men and women who want to dress up in quaint ethnic costume. The costume of the Mountain cattle person. Because in doing so they send a clear message. Fuck the environment and we dare any indigenous Australian to question after their 50,000 years of stewardship, to question us. Cos we can.

 And by God’s destiny, and the spirit of the Dryzabone, we WILL. 

COS WE CAN!!

Freedom to TELL ALL! A noble sacrifice for the good of Australia. WE SHARE THEIR TEARS!!

It’s become increasingly difficult coping with the news. And harder still making sense of the seemingly trivial local issues and the wider context of seriously important global issues! In fact we suggest you put the i phone, the i pad, the lap top, (and for those of you who are really paleolithic, the newspaper) down and reflect on just how lucky you are. You can sip your tea, and spread marmalade evenly upon your toast whilst acknowledging how lucky we are in Australia. Not only do we have a burgeoning economy based solely upon the incalculable value of REAL ESTATE, but our continent, as the song goes in “gird by sea”. That’s it. It renders us SAFE! It renders us SECURE! And it allows us to fully exploit the freedom to be fined, taxed, coerced and belittled by a political class solely interested in themselves. So that rent seeking corporations may continue to PAY NO TAX! This is reassuring. Because “WE” are superfluous to the maintenance of a SOCIETY, and have no say on really important decisions that affect all of us, we can go on blithely, happy in the contentment that we shop. And occasionally feel pity and contempt for those who can’t . They can’t, because they’re poor. And their poverty is deserved becaue of their intractable LAZINESS!. 

That’s why we stayed up last night to watch Barbaby and his missus talk about their travails. Barnaby proclaimed, (he likes to proclaim) he didn’t give a stuff about the politics of his decision to dump everything for his sheila. “The voters, the parliament, the whole fucken system can just get stuffed”. 

Freedom to SHOP 24/7!

Onya Barnaby. You treat the voters like you treat the Lesser Barrier Reef and the Murray Darling. You wont take that greeny, leftist shit about serving the greater good. We’re on your side Barnaby. What good ever came of working through a consensus and long term goals for the greater good? You demonstrate the way ahead. And in doing so, provide all of us supine, meek, pusillaminous voters someone to look up to. We admire you Barnaby. You reinstate our sense of self. By talking down to us, you make us feel that you, (unlike all the other pollies) are more human. And you demonstrate the relativity between LOCAL and GLOBAL issues. 

Freedom to Invest in REAL ESTATE!

Cos, OUTSIDE of Australia. (insert, the Happiest most freedom loving fair minded continent on earth) non-human forces are at work. Forces that would take away our sovereignty, and make us all SLAVES. We will not mince words here. Russia is keen to make us all serfs. And China, (we are courageously aware of the risk we take in saying this) is keen to turn us all into communists. And much worse. ROBOTS!

Freedom to LIVE IN FEAR!

WE know that Peter Dutton is sworn to protect us. He guides us on determining whether Islam is a worse threat than the insidious Chinese influence. The influence, we have no power to control. It’s easy to resist ISIS, but impossible to resist the need to shop. The need to shop and buy shit we don’t need. And nigh impossible to resist the lure of real estate. That’s why we’re glad for the likes of Peter and Barnaby. To show us the way. And keep us free. And to be very fearful. Fearful of what we may lose if we drop our guard. Fearful of the outside world and the LURE of WOMEN, both of  which are dangerous. And fearful about what lurks on our streets. 

That is the price of freedom, eternal fear. And a cheque for 150,000 from Channel Seven

Hiya,

When Nangala started work as a teacher in Yuendumu, she was initially installed into a “Health Flat” with our children. The Matron told Nangala, that she shouldn’t allow those ‘Native Children’ into the flat. Those ‘Native Children’ were her pupils and they had names and they came to play with our children whom they’d befriended at school. That was 45 years ago.

I’ve previously mentioned that Warlpiri has both inclusive and exclusive personal pronouns- such as the exclusive ‘nganimpa’ (us without you I’m speaking to) and the inclusive ‘ngalipa’ (all of us including you I’m speaking to)

Back in 1973 it was definitely not ‘ngalipa’ in that neo-colonial setting. The “them and us” paradigm slowly faded in subsequent happier times. One of the drivers of this social glue was the policy of Self Determination, since declared a failed policy by the assimilationists who were disconcerted by having their power grip on Aboriginal Australia loosened.

I never tire of quoting Kim Beazley Sr.:

“In Australia, our ways have mostly produced disaster for the Aboriginal people. I suspect that only when their right to be distinctive is accepted, will policy become creative” (my emphasis).

A March 2016 Dispatch titled ‘Magic Moments’ included:

This from a recent article by Martin Flanagan, the Melbourne Age’s Sports Writer:

“Three of the most momentous days of my life occurred in 1987 when I attended a football carnival at Yuendumu on the Warlpiri tribal lands north-west of Alice Springs. In three days, the glass tower of my preconceptions about Aboriginal Australia was shattered. I could tell a dozen stories as to why, each as important as the last…..….And I went to a party where a traditional man with initiation scars all down his chest played the electric guitar like Jimi Hendrix and a white geologist who lived in Yuendumu accompanied him like a jazzman on a trumpet. In that room, that night, Aboriginal people and white people mingled in a spirit of fraternal respect. Walking back to the car I was sleeping in, I thought there has to be some way of taking that spirit to the rest of Australia.”

‘Ngalipa’ in action. Many Magic Moments and memories.

Great Southern Land- Warren H .Williams…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvbgTQIWw_4

Sadly that spirit was not taken to the rest of Australia, instead Remote Aboriginal Australia was and continues to be bombarded by meanspirited assumptions and policies.

Since 1973, when Nangala was told off for having ‘native children attending our home in the nurses flats’, we have come full circle. ‘Them and us’- big time.

At the Willowra (Wirliyajarrayi) shop the following notice has recently appeared: (the Image is 2-3MB so it is typed out instead- the original is in three colours so it has lost some of its impact)

ATTENTION

NON INDIGENOUS

VISITORS AND

RESIDENTS IN

WLLOWRA

It is an unsafe and inappropriate practice

for children and youths to be attending

your personal residence without an

appropriate  ADULT .

Children and youths attending personal houses without

an ADULT is not an acceptable behaviour in other

communities in Australia and it is therefore not an

acceptable behaviour in Willowra

IN THE INTERESTS OF CHILD SAFETY AND YOUR

INDIVIDUAL PROTECTION

CHILDREN AND YOUTHS MUST HAVE AN

APPROPRIATE ADULT WITH THEM IF THEY COME

TO YOUR HOUSE

WILLOWRA HEALTH CENTRE

I’ll refrain from commenting on this. Suffice it to say that when the Intervention was thrust upon NT remote Aboriginal communities in 2007, based largely on alleged endemic sexual abuse of children (which app. $40M allocated to the Federal Police- failed to unearth), a Warlpiri school colleague said to Nangala: “Is that all kardiya can talk about these days?”

Shalom,

Jungarrayi

Xavier Rudd- Spirit Bird…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZK8MDyLuL4

and a bonus beautiful song from South Africa’s late Brenda Fassie…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECbY5Acnxo

Bill Shorten. Federal ALP Leader, announces new Ministry for Tokenism at ALP Conference.

The Labor Party are the big hitters on change. They are determined to challenge the status quo. And you can bet, that with the election of a Shorten government there’ll be big changes. They’re not content to let the metaphorical water flow under the bridge. Not for them the lazy politics of complacency and being asleep at the wheel. Labor is committed to change. They’ve got a quota system that sees 48% representation for females, and some of them (even if they win the next election) will have exciting portfolios on the front bench. Minister for child-minding, Minister for Aboriginal health and well-being, Minister for “wellness”, Minister for Aboriginal spiritual maintenance regimes, Minister, for ‘Life matters’ and Minister for “The well intentioned incarceration of Aboriginal Australians for their own good’, and another new portfolio, the Minister for place names and the Minister for an ongoing enquiry into equity, banking and the superannuation industry

All embraced under a Super-Ministry, the Ministry for Tokenism.

All ministers get to wear a token, and the public don’t get a look in. That would corrupt the purity of thought. And by association deem the token, (to be worn proudly together or singly with the Order of Australia) to be worthless. Cos as stated in the legislation, ‘the wearer of the token is entitled to a lifetime of free travel, sinecures on boards, grotesquely generous pensions and attendance at all taxpayer events functions and launchings by upholding the sacred principle of the status quo’.

Ministry of Tokenism Building. A Great Leap Forward. More significant, (arguably) than the Order of Australia in challenging the Status Quo.

Don’t they know that; ‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose’.

So it was good to see at the State Labor Conference the vexed issue of refugees and poor bastards rotting in detention centres, given the flick. Good to see live debate shut down by the right wing trade unions, and great to see the leader of the party, fade from the stage, (like he wasn’t there) overwhelmed by the silence he created, for a love that dare not speak its name. Those who rot.

Not for humanity modern labour.

Of the right to strike? shut down,

On superannuation? shut down.

Gender inequality? shut down,

Heading up the super ministry, former PM Kevin Rudd.

New start allowance? shut down.

Working with Big Business, Order of Australia, and Ministry of Tokenism merit badge recipients to keep the Status Quo.

The Labor MP Andrew Giles, the shadow assistant minister for schools, said it was “beyond disappointing that some delegates chose to shut down debate on important issues”.
“In Labor we pride ourselves on our culture of debate – of working through tough questions respectfully and openly, not hiding from these or from scrutiny of our positions,” he said.
“We can’t take this for granted. This goes to the heart of our challenge, which isn’t just to to set out an alternative policy vision but to reject cynicism towards politics by building a movement in which all of us can have a say in shaping our future.”
(from the Guardian

Nup, by unaminous consent the conference issues will be put off, after the super saturday by-elections. Don’t want to let policy get in the way, and perhaps with a bit of luck after the next federal election. Like Bill, it may just dissapear.

Note: all members of token inner sanctum are reminded to get their itineraries sorted for the UK Labor conference tour, and accept that flights will be tax deductible as business class. And to remind that taxpayer funded free entry to all museums, galleries and cultural institutions, (including meals) will be pegged to only ONE partner per person. (children and extended families are unrestricted).