Hate Begets More Hate

Everyone who engages in hate of ‘others’ – based on religion, race/ethnicity/heritage, nationalism, politics, ‘class’, gender, sexual orientation, etc – shares a level of responsibility in all hate crimes because they have shown and/or taught acceptance for spreading hate. That is why it is so offensive to see those who perpetuate ‘othering’ and division inContinue reading “Hate Begets More Hate”

Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first

All employers are in the extraction business, not just those in the ‘resources’ industry. The resource all employers mine is their people  – specifically their ideas, energy and time – ‘just’ the most personal and precious of our resources which define us as human beings. Some workplaces have a culture where this mining is doneContinue reading “Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first”

The Only Sustainable Strategy For An Authentic Centre Left

If it still exists … The following submission is written in full sincerity to be considered at Per Capita Australia’s “Community” Tax summit as a follow on to a debate I had with Emma Dawson, director of PCA, on LinkedIn on 6 Feb 2025 (my post was removed that evening for reasons and in aContinue reading “The Only Sustainable Strategy For An Authentic Centre Left”

Xcap

Noun. Short for Extreme capitalist. Antonym of woke. Someone with an unshakeable faith in and support for: manipulated markets to transfer wealth from the poor and vulnerable to the wealthy Elite; small government and thus limited to zero social safety nets and social justice programs (such as universal health and DEI initiatives); greed and selfishnessContinue reading “Xcap”

Shrinking Islands Of Prosperity

I wrote the following article a fortnight ago and, as I do sometimes, I sat on it to ponder whether I might just be going ‘too’ far and that I might be seen as ‘extreme’ … and then news of this breaks on 6 December Australian time … Brian Thompson’s killing sparks outrage over stateContinue reading “Shrinking Islands Of Prosperity”

Time To Drain The Billabong

The factor likely the most important in the US election result is also the most unlikely to be discussed – because it suits neither major party nor powerful interests to highlight it. You see when I talked about the West led by America moving towards fascism in “Reset” I was not only talking about (far)Continue reading “Time To Drain The Billabong”

Woke AI

I only learned about the latest anti-woke attack by the Technofeudalist Elon Musk Tuesday evening as I watched Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz on Bloomberg. Ironically a few days earlier I had decided to interrogate Open AI’s Dalle 2 about wokes by asking it to draw “a pencil sketch of a person being ‘woke’” whichContinue reading “Woke AI”

The Great Reset: Humanity demands leaders walk while chewing gum in the 21st century

The criticism most often levelled at President Franklin D Roosevelt – President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 – is that he did not tackle racism and inequality. Excuses are made that the Great Depression and then World War II were such serious issues that political capital and attention hadContinue reading “The Great Reset: Humanity demands leaders walk while chewing gum in the 21st century”