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'No' voters didn't reject Aboriginal advancement. Rather, they vetoed the sort of 'advancement' Yes backers had in mind
Oct 15 2024
11 mins
Were those who pushed the Voice genuinely serious, the Aboriginal Industry would be the first thing to be addressed.
Oct 14 2024
4 mins
The ABC's claims of Trump's 'falsehoods' turn out to be falsehoods themselves. But correct the record? No way
Oct 14 2024
18 mins
The Executioner’s Tale
On 18 June 2010 Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a volunteer firing squad in Utah State Prison
Not often you get a chance to kill a man
No strings attached that is
The opportunity of a lifetime
Five volunteers make-up the party
Names stay secret to keep wackos at bay
We shoot from behind a screen
One of us draws a blank
Never could see the sense in that
Said straight-up we’d do the job
Makes a man feel he’s not taken seriously
Prison folk strap the felon to a chair
Put a blindfold on him
Pin a bullseye over his heart
There’s a countdown from five
But we fix to squeeze on two
He’s dead quicker than he figured
Twitches for a minute or two
Seen it with animals I’ve shot
Some witnesses look a bit upset
Never gone hunting I guess
State’s striking medals to say thank-you
Blank shooter gets his too
A great keepsake for the kids
Something my girl will remember me by
The boy’s always said he wants the antlers
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
