The big news over the last couple of weeks is Israel’s attack on Iran, resulting in tit for tat drone and missile strikes between the two countries. Which was followed by the American attack on Iran’s three biggest nuclear facilities. Of course, lots of people are doubling down on President Donald Trump for authorizing the…
The holiday period is over. There has been another attack on a Sydney synagogue with swastikas being painted on the walls. The perpetrators tried to set the place on fire, too. More and more it echoes the events in Germany in the nineteen thirties. It’s no surprise that anti-semitism has gathered pace since nothing was…
The international news has been full of two things of late – the final fall of Bashar Al Assad’s despicable regime in Syria and the shooting killing of the CEO of one of America’s largest (for profit) health insurance companies, United Healthcare (UHC). First, the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. He was shot in…
One of the most disgraceful things anyone can do in life is teach small children to hate. Adolf Hitler and his henchmen understood this well. That’s why they created the Hitler Youth. So what do we make of the pro-Palestinian (sounds much nicer than ‘anti-Israeli’) protest at the University of Sydney? ‘In a clip from…
Peter and I are Baby Boomers, born in that particularly fecund period just after World War II. This means, by inference, that World War II was an important part of our family history. Peter’s father ended up in a German POW camp after being captured at Tobruk. My parents and their five small children lived…
I’m pleased to see that recriminations over the failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum have finally been pushed off the front pages of the news. Having said that, I’m hoping things are still happening behind the scenes to do something about the Aboriginal Industry to make sure much-needed funds actually get to the people…
It’s Spring racing carnival in Melbourne and the Melbourne Cup will be run next Tuesday. In celebration, this week I was going to write a little article about the wonderful mares who have graced Australia’s racetracks – Makybe Diva, the only horse to win three Melbourne Cups, Black Caviar who won twenty-five races on the…