My Pipe Dream for Humanity Before the first word was spoken, before the first hand pressed ochre into stone, we were iron and carbon ...

My Pipe Dream for Humanity

Before the first word was spoken,
before the first hand pressed ochre into stone,
we were iron and carbon
cooling in the long dark after a star’s last argument with gravity.
We did not choose this beginning.
Neither did we choose…

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The One Nation Comic Opera The diva belts her entrance With forty notes of vengeance .

The One Nation Comic Opera

The singers gasp in horror.
The audience screams, “No more?”
Then walls reply, “Oh yes, encore…
when you apologise nicely!”

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What You Permit, You Endorse: On the Second Constitution of the State The gap between a government's rhetoric and its conduct is the full measure of its character.

Don’t listen to what governments say, watch what they do … there are always two constitutions, one written the other unwritten … or … put more simply … policy by other means … official and unofficial…

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What You Permit, You Endorse: On the Second Constitution of the State The gap between a government's rhetoric and its conduct is the full measure of its character.

A state’s moral order is revealed not by its instruments but by its pattern of condoned conduct. This post is written from the perspective of someone inside the gap — from the experience of being “othered,” of reading the second constitution as a survival practice

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Governments preach rights, law, dignity.

But every state runs on two constitutions: the shiny written one … and the real one, etched in silence — the boot, the unmarked grave, the killing they refuse to punish.

That gap isn’t failure.

It’s policy.

Tomorrow’s BnB.

Governments preach rights, law, dignity.

But every state runs on two constitutions: the shiny written one … and the real one, etched in silence — the boot, the unmarked grave, the killing they refuse to punish.

That gap isn’t failure.

It’s policy.

Tomorrow’s BnB.

Pauline Hanson has a rant about Schrödinger's immigrant…

The Strings We Cannot See We drift through our days like lanterns set afloat ...

The Strings We Cannot See

“We move through the world like marionettes carved from fog,
shaped by hands we never see,
our boundaries dissolving
whenever a new master exhales command.”

#poetrylovers #poetry #humanreality

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State Power, Intersectional Identity and the Lie of Equality Before the Law Assuring equality under the law requires the persistent effort of people and institutions to deliver on the promise, a matter at which Australia is failing.

You can’t argue that someone is being treated equally before the law when the government & police use forged documents to prosecute them in an attempt to silence them and a Supreme Court judge allows the prosecution to use false documents and treat them as if genuine
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THE GREAT MISDIRECTION: committing tens of billions to submarines while one in six children lives in poverty is a political choice, not fate. True security defends people—schools, hospitals, homes—not only symbols of power.

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Sometimes the tarot cards can be damn literal

A mate in the AFP told me that certain elements there reckon I’m the devil.

Fair call, I thought. Let’s ask the old deck for a second opinion.

First two cards I pull: Strength & The Devil

Tarot deck just looked me dead in the eye “Yeah… a big one”

This didn’t age well…

🚨BREAKING 🚨

Israeli invasion forces in Southern Lebanon have uncovered a previously unknown addendum to Revelation 13:

A figure from the sea to whom the dragon gives power and authority, will be universally acknowledged as the Orange Nonce 👿

State Power, Intersectional Identity and the Lie of Equality Before the Law Assuring equality under the law requires the persistent effort of people and institutions to deliver on the promise, a matter at which Australia is failing.

There is a particular cruelty in being told you are equal before the law—when every lived experience proves otherwise.

This post has testimony from a US human rights attorney, my own account as an Indigenous-Jewish Australian & from a lawyer with 50 yrs experience

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🚨BREAKING 🚨

Israeli invasion forces in Southern Lebanon have uncovered a previously unknown addendum to Revelation 13:

A figure from the sea to whom the dragon gives power and authority, will be universally acknowledged as the Orange Nonce 👿

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The song is great, but it’s melody remains a work in progress. But if we can ignore the likes of Hanson, Dutton, Taylor, et al… Australia can still build something that’s unique in the world.

Compelling piece 🙏🏻
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the videos of people reacting to songs on YouTube but there are many with this song as the subject by people all over the world. I’ve noticed most come away with the false notion that Oz has totally and adequately reckoned with it’s past.

We Are Australian: The Timeless Hymn to Plurality Woodley and Newton's "we Are One" embodies the elements of Australia in a profound and unique way.

Some songs don’t just mark a moment — they accumulate meaning over decades.

Woodley & Newton’s “I Am Australian” is one of them. A living document.

New essay: I use its lyrics as a scaffold to make the serious case for multiculturalism — as a living philosophy

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John Howard - the man who fucked Oz

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The State as Threat: The NSW Court of Appeal versus Emergency Power The NSW Court of Appeal struck down Minns’ emergency protest ban as unconstitutional.

After the Bondi attack, the Minns government rushed emergency laws through parliament on Christmas Eve — giving police power to ban all authorised protests across Greater Sydney.

The NSW Court of Appeal just struck them down as unconstitutional.

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Controversial laws to restrict protests in NSW struck down by top court The laws, rushed through parliament after the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, have been found to be unconstitutional by the state's highest court.

NSW protest laws brought in after Bondi Beach attack deemed 'unconstitutional' by NSW Court of Appeal…

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This is great writing and I learned a lot

Well worth a read as ANZAC day approaches

...policies do not simply disappear when they are legislated away. They migrate. ... They take shelter in concepts like ‘cultural cohesion,’ ‘integration,’ and ‘shared values,’ concepts that sound neutral and civic until you examine precisely whose culture is doing the cohering, ...

that particular cohort have also likely never heard Gout Gout interviewed - this very talented and humble kid has a very Australian accent.