The Ancient Marinara

by sirroger | Mar 17, 2008 | Arts, Australian Values, Cultural Values, Democracy, Economic Values, Freedom of Speech, Lifestyle & Life, Media Values, OzPol Values, Values

He’s a Legend, and our friend

We wish he wouldn’t describe himself as “ancient”. That tends to put us at the edge of a category we fiercely resist.

Richard Neville, one of the founders of homepagedaily.com, was the infamous, notorious publisher and editor of Oz Magazine.and author of Hippie Hippie Shake; Play Power, amongst many others. Unrehabilitated 60s icon, iconoclast and futurist. And our friend, or at least our supporter and adviser, in the earlier and more threatened days of the Ministry of Mateship and Fair Dinkum Values, aka ‘ValuesAustralia’.

Here he is with chilling news on the grim future for the globally-heated rich:

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