1984 revisited

Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin says it is a “disgrace” to see Myer forced to cancel the unveiling of its Christmas window display because of pro-Palestine advocates. This is certainly NOT the Australia I love and believe in. It is time we remembered we are a proud country and stopped these vile pro palestinian supporters out of our politics and off our streets. To take our Myers Christmas and force it to not happen then it is time to fight back, and time to get their supporters off the Australian political spectrum.

  IT IS THE SOLDIER It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the Soldier, not the poet Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer Who has given us freedom to protest. It is the Soldier, not the lawyer Who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the Soldier, not the politician Who has given us the right to vote. Who has given us the right of free choice It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, (Charles M. Province)

John Simpsons Kirkpatrick aka as Simpson and his donkey was a real time hero of Gallipoli although he only survived 24 days after his arrival there. Now let’s have no confusion here he deserted on 2 occasions from the merchant navy.  He hated taking orders and did not like relying on others. However in his youth he saved 2 other youth from drowning, risking his own life without hesitation.  He took any work so he could support his mother in England and it seems he only volunteered for the army because he believed they would be going to England for training.  Whether he intended to remain with the army or not is just conjecture. However they in fact went to Egypt instead and due to his muscular physique he was picked to be a stretcher bearer.  As he did not have to carry a gun suited Simpson, who although not a coward he loathed guns. The first day he had a partner and due to heavy losses the stretcher bearer teams were reduced by 4 teams to only 2 teams of stretcher ...

To Australians ANZAC Day goes far beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915, It is the day we remember all Australians who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations we have been a part of. The spirit of ANZAC, with the human qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, not only continues to have meaning and relevance for our sense of national identity, it serves as a reminder to us of all the best qualities of the Australian Idiom. On ANZAC day, there are ceremonies which are held in towns and cities across the nation to acknowledge the service of our Aussie veterans and we have recently incorporated the people and services that fought side by side with our gallant soldiers. It is from the stories below that the incorrigible Australian spirit became a legend and the unique Aussie fighting spirit has bee passed down.  It is also because of these men and the many brave souls, never to return to our shores, that we must never forget the ext...

Thirty-five years after publication, when the present caught up with Orwell’s future and the world had not changed into the nightmare he had described, commentators predicted that his books popularity would wane.  Another 40 years have elapsed since then, and Nineteen Eighty-Four remains the book we turn to whenever the truth is mutilated, when language is distorted, when power is abused, when we want to know how bad things can get.  As Orwell's 1984 turns 72, It Predicted Much Of Today's Surveillance Society" — "George Orwell’s famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four turns 73 years old in December 2021.  Looking back on its predictions and the state of the world today, how much did it get right in its predictions of a dystopian surveillance state where every word is monitored, unacceptable speech is deleted, history is rewritten or deleted altogether and individuals can become 'unpersons' for holding views disliked by those in power? It turns out Orwell’s predictio...