Update from daycare centres in Siktoria:

– Acknowledgement of country shared with the children each day in all learning spaces
– Aboriginal flag displayed in all rooms
– Acknowledgement of country shared in all staff meetings
– Childrens activities based in First Nations culture in all learning spaces, ancillary spaces, foyers etc
– Flying the aboriginal flag outside the facility

– Lord’s Prayer each day before class
– Crucifix displayed on the wall of all classrooms
– Prayer before all staff meetings
– Children’s activities based on Bible stories in all learning spaces, etc
– Christian cross on the peak of the building

Does sound just slightly like a religion. Maybe Bruce Pascoe can write the Aboriginal Koran.

Just saw a Vote No advert on YouTube from #NotMyVoice.

It’s like finding a unicorn.

In our travels up and down the east coast from Sydney to Qld and back, I saw one Yes Vote sign (outside Nambucca heads in a private house front garden) and one rear-window sticker for the Yes Vote. I have seen NO stickers or advertising for the No vote.

Yet I suspect that all of those cars and houses with no statement of intent are letting the world know something by the lack of their advertising. People are telling each other to vote No, not advertising the fact.

I saw one Yes Vote sign outside Nambucca heads

Special place. I was attending Nambucca Heads primary school. Someone, I don’t recall who, gave me a children’s Bible. I read it and believed what it said. We also had scripture classes in those days, and somehow I started attending the local Anglican church.

I have no idea what the congregation thought, nor the minister, of a pre-teen kid who suddenly turned up to attend 8am Holy Communion every week. It was a good 20 minute walk there and back each Sunday from our house. I think my dad, who isn’t a Christian, thought it a phase which would fade and I’d get over it.

A year or two later the minister or someone asks if I’d like to do Confirmation? Ok, says I. Several weeks of classes and the confirmation Sunday approaches when they work out that I’d never, like, actually ever been baptised yet. So they hurriedly arrange a baptism (sprinkling) and a week later I get confirmed. Anglican rituals are fun!

I don’t think my experience is quite usual in Christian conversion experience, but over fifty years later I’m still a Christian, and going well. So I have fond memories of Nambucca Heads.

We have few or no ghettos. Long may that continue

Ah, no.

We have multiple, multiple taxpayer-funded ghettos – and to an extent that once in them, you actually wonder if you are in Australia.

Where drug and alcohol use is rife. Where scabies and STDs are the norm. Where tribal beliefs and apparent historic kinship obligations result in the non-reporting of horrific assaults, up to and including homicides.

Where Big Men – the equivalent of local warlords rule. Their word is law.

Where impoverished children, women and men stay that way because the mountains of cash destined for them are siphoned off by various land councils and tribal elders for their own benefit.

They are in large towns, cities and remote areas of the Northern Territory, Western Australia, FNQ and parts of northern SA. They are ghettos, every bit and more of those in other countries written about in books and depicted in movies. Disease-ridden cesspits ruled by tinpots with an imprimatur from bigger tinpots.

They’re just not in Vaucluse.

Is this thanks largely to Coombes ?

Thorpe is based on AOC with a splash of Angela Davis. More shit imported from the US.

Coombes began inflicting this damage during the McMahon era iirc.

Is there a more ridiculous concept to have existed in human history?

with a ridiculous medal to go with it – PSM. So many canbra pubic parasites have that post nominal.

As children on holidays we used to play with the local indigenous kids at Bellwood Lagoon on the River.

RD – I played league in high school, the Bellwood guys were the best backs. They were admired greatly. Interestingly fully aboriginal footy sides didn’t ever work, I think because they don’t have the strategic team senses. But the guys were individually awesome.

During WWII my dad’s aunt in Brisbane sent me a hard cover Australian book Poppet and Pete that my mum would read to me every night and I knew every word in it. Returning to the country in ’45 I attended C of E Sunday school and won a book “Joseph and his Coat of Many Colours.” I couldn’t read all the words in it but I felt it special.
So combining the words I knew from “Poppet and Pete” and all the words I learned from the catalogues we received from David Jones, Farmers and Anthony Horderns I was able to decipher most of it. The special feeling I got from that book I won never left me.

P.S. My. mum and dad retired to Nambucca Heads.

Figures support a system where the guild (doctors) are the only ones allowed to be informed when new drugs enter the market.

What a bizarre interpretation of my claim that a) drug advertising should be legal; and b) there should be no medical licencing or patents whatsoever.

Stop trying to anticipate my views JC.

They’re just not in Vaucluse.

That is true, and I am aware of that without your reminders, KD. No need for that sort of cheap swipe, especially to someone who hasn’t always lived in salubrious areas and who has relatives still in public housing. I wasn’t referring to the public housing sinks which litter our cities nor to aboriginal rural and remote communities.

I think it should be clear that I meant we don’t have ethnic ghettos of relatively recent immigrants. We have ethnic city settlement areas and then a movement up the social scale as immigrants achieve and buy more expensive housing in more mixed suburbs. We do have areas where certain ethnic groups congregate, but they are smaller and often shared with other ethnic groups; more on a cost of housing basis than anything else. In the US where the same movement in, up and out has happened since the Ellis Island days, there is also an urban set of ghettos, mostly black, where residents are ‘stuck’. We don’t seem to have that on an ethnic basis to anything like the US extent, though we have the public housing ghettos of druggies and people in very reduced circumstances due to poverty and mental illness.

If it is of any interest to you I used to teach on national and international urban and regional spatial patterning – a sort of socio-geography.

Every morning the people who trade wake up. Some wake up with a boner expecting all the money they’re going to make and hit the buy button. Some others wake up with dread, fear and even thinking this might happen and mash the sell button. That’s what makes a market; every person who buys thinks they’re they’re smarter than the person who sold it to them, and someone did so its rather arrogant, if you think about it for 30 seconds, to contemplate that you’re smarter than all the other people out there.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker

I’m heading to bed for CPAC starts at 9am tomorrow in the city.

Saying why I have interests in particular areas and have pursued them academically is not an invitation to any stalker to enter and start to denigrate me for saying, as others have done here often about their own experiences and studies, what my own past experiences teaching and publishing have been in.

You can read what I am currently interested in soon. A longish article on aspects of C5th Britain will appear in either September or October Quadrant. It won’t interest everyone though. I don’t mind that. Same as other stuff I write here. Scroll if you can’t be bothered.

Is the Australian CPAC anyway connected to the American CPAC?

Yes, but loosely. There is always a welcome from US CPAC organisers and presenters.
Not sure if there are other organisational or financial arrangements, I suspect not.

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

Former Adviser to the Treasury and Bank of England, Dr Roger Gewolb, congratulates GB News on the success of the Don’t Kill Cash Campaign,

Perhaps the bosses have totally misread the socio/political mood that first surfaced with the Red Bull owner sacking his marketing team https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8527767/Red-Bull-fires-executives-pushed-diversity-inclusion.html over their BLM arrogance. Lesson unlearned, we next had the Bud Lite saga, where admin still hasn’t woken up to the message that the consumer is King and isn’t captive to the marketing departments flings with political fashion. Next we have Target US who were a little quicker to disown the worms in their apple.
When corporations decide to treat their customers with respect and stay out of the political arena, they may get them back. But at the moment the customer who has been ear bashed for years about how non woke they are, are in the mood to kick a few heads themselves.

HBBear

Aug 18, 2023 6:57 PM
Have you ever tried to put your left hand in the right hand pocket?

Could never do it.
The pocket was always occupied by the government either scratching my balls or stealing the loose change.