“We came for peace,” said the commando, one of the first Israeli soldiers to board the Mavi Marmara. ”They came for war.” ow you can tell "we came for peace" is that we came in the dark of night in warships and armed rigid-hulled inflatable boats,...

Paedophile Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe Pope Shocked. Shocked!   wish I had written this, because I agree wholeheartedly with what she says. I wish I had written what she wrote but thank goodness she did. Joan Smith’s whole article in...

  6. hen we swear to something, that is kind of a proper commitment. The word “swear” comes from an ancient word that means “to speak”; to say words. In one of the most savagely beautiful and exceptional works of fiction, the Book of John...

A note about the Haneef debacle/fallout...   he police and the government — notably Howard, Andrews, Downer and Ruddock (all of whom would have purple dye on their hands if they stole a briefcase instead of hijacking the brief on Haneef )...

. . . and so to the democracy that we enjoy today avid Hume, hero of the Enlightenment, father of skepticism, linchpin of democracy and human rights and freedoms, Happy 300th Birthday!    Sir Roger has some slight understanding of how Hume...

  A slightly different audience ...   ome time ago, Bob Correll, the Deputy Secretary of DIC¹ , contacted us to complain that the Values Australia website “may seriously damage Australia’s reputation overseas” before going on to threaten...

Sydney Cultural Promotion Takes Off With a Bang 16 October, 2006   16 October, 2006 – The Promotional Campaign for this year’s annual Cultural Respect Classes has taken off with a bang in Sydney, beginning at Manly and Maroubra beaches. 13 people were allegedly...

The GuardianWhen Christian Is a Dirty Word   This won't take long. The Department of Home Affairs ("the Potatocracy")  stirringly asserts that people love to come to Australia because:  " ​​​​​​​​Australian values are based on freedom, respect, fairness and...

  "This glorious fat trout of an election godsend..."   e that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”, ~  Thomas...

Only Connect!   S ir Roger has been somewhat troubled of late that persons of his (ahem) “vintage” have become quite out of step with the young’uns these days. Not in terms of worldliness, because after all his generation have seen a lot more world (times Time), with...

  Nothing whatever to do with the Government Values Australia does not want to pretend any false modesty. It is delighted to have been mentioned by its favourite page in the Sydney Morning Herald: Stay in Touch. We think that most people are probably like George...

Watch Time Disappear  When Sir Roger was a young man (yes), his university offered a soft course for the scientifically inquisitive but mathematically challenged called The History and Philosophy of Science. Naturally this was universally and derogatorily referred to...

…and yet proud…  o have some of our work considered worthy of inclusion amongst the writings of the doyens of the ozblogosphere in the Top 40 collection at OnlineOpinion. The piece the judges have chosen is “The Nation That Hangs Together”. We have...

  Gone at long last   ow much time should one spend on this slug? We don’t even feel like woo-hoo. Just “at last” and “good riddance” and “what took you so long”. One of the things we really dislike about (not exclusively-) Australian...

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first send mad — Euripides   n 2007  we pleaded  … tell me that America isn’t completely barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, crazy, demented, deranged, dippy, flipped out, fruity, haywire,...

Only Connect!   S ir Roger has been somewhat troubled of late that persons of his (ahem) “vintage” have become quite out of step with the young’uns these days. Not in terms of worldliness, because after all his generation have seen a lot more world (times Time), with...

  "This glorious fat trout of an election godsend..."   e that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”, ~  Thomas...

Cardinal Pell after Bacon   To Hell, Pell-Mell   C ardinal Pell has claimed on PM today that Global Warming is not happening. He has “studied the science”, he says, and come to the rational conclusion that there is no evidence for global warming. In fact, he...

  How the Experts Won the Iraq War in Weeks Rather Than Years   he newest Bill Moyers Journal episode includes an interview with Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf, whose new book MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! OR HOW WE WON THE WAR IN IRAQ looks...

his angry, loving, passionate, poetic piece from John White was a comment on the previous post but we love it so much we do not want it lost in the wastes of commentdom. It deserves to be shared with you. So here it is:  Australian Values,...