I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
Three years ago, just before the 2022 Federal Election, I made some reflections on the lack of political engagement on the part of the Australian populace, compared to their counterparts in the 1950s: With the 2025 election now all but over, with just a few seats left to count and confirm the winner, it is …
Continue reading “Vox Populi Vox Dei Redux – Takeaways From Last Saturday’s Federal Election”
I just finished reading Land Of The Long Weekend, the late Ronald Conway’s 1978 critique of 1970s Australian society, culture and consumerism. It was heavy going. Whilst I am quite well read, Conway was even more read, in the way of an autodidact, and fond of quoting his interpretations of many famed authors and philosophers …
I have written about former local state upper house MP Bernie Finn on various occasions in the past, particularly when I suggested he get given a knighthood (I was being facetious, if you don’t quite know how to read my tone!). I will be honest and concede that his first coming as an MP in …
Over 50 years ago, Monty Python did an episode called ‘Spanish Inquisition’, which has since then led to many memes along the theme of ‘No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition’. Through ridicule, one of the more shameful chapters in the history of the Catholic Church is diminished. However, I am not sure that the Catholic …
The Olympics are over, and I hope that we as a nation-state have sated our gluttony for gold medals for a few months at least. After all, we did win 18 of those at these Olympics, the most we have ever won in history, coming fourth in the tally behind the USA, China, and Japan …
Continue reading “The Australian Olympic Team – Where Too Much Ain’t Enough”
When I was nine years old, I became aware of the extent of the Roman Empire, in which Italy, my ancestral homeland, was the dominant part. I felt rather indignant (being ethnically Italian) that Rome did not still rule all shores and hinterlands of the Mediterranean. Without knowing it at the time, I was an Italian …
Continue reading “Irredentism – An Irredeemable & Immature Ideology”
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