Shane Howard, front man of legendary Australia group, Goanna, who penned the iconic 1982 hit song, ‘Solid Rock, Sacred Ground,’ that decried the dispossession of First Peoples, has returned his Order of Australia medal, in response to the Voice Referendum result.
In his letter to the Governor-General, Howard spoke of his ‘deep sadness’ and while he ‘respects the democratic result,’ he felt that, “Australians had missed an important historical moment of destiny.”
“At this point in history, I can’t be proud of my nation and feel honour bound to return my Order of Australia medal.”
“When I wrote the song, ‘Solid Rock, Sacred Ground’, 40 years ago, I wanted us to address the fundamental lie at the heart of our national story. I dreamt of a country respectful of our ancient history and honest about our modern history. I wanted to be proud of my country.”
He went on to state that the Referendum campaign had, “Seen the rise of intentional and well-resourced disinformation networks.”
“I’m also deeply troubled by the way our First Peoples, our brothers and sisters, our friends, have been so belittled, with such pernicious vilification, in the interests of political power. It’s neither generous nor decent.”
Howard’s great-grandfather was arrested at the Eureka Stockade. “I hold sacred the democratic principles and freedoms that those Diggers defended and died for,” he said. “Those democratic principles are now under threat.”
“I love my birth country deeply but until we loose(sic) our colonial shackles, engage in Treaty-making with our First Peoples, commit to truth-telling about our history and embrace a post-colonial Republic, I cannot be proud of my nation.”
Comment: Harry Palmer
When reviewing the Order Of Australia medal you find of the 30,000 recipients many non deserving recognition seriously pruning credibility of the award.
Shane is well deserving an Australian honour, this he has with his music well removed from a committee generated medal, a far greater commendation from an appreciative nation.
It’s lucky Shane had his Ayers Rock inspiration on indigenous issues or we Aussies might have missed out on his work o fart.
tony: “Shane must have been promised a place on the Gravy Train.”
Any idea where I can get a didgeridoo to put on my roof racks so I can lessen my chances of getting booked by some Woke Brisbane Council Ranger? 🙂
Shane must have been promised a place on the Gravy Train.
Shane Howard was given an OAM for writing ONE song??? My pensioner mother has volunteered the last 11 years of her almost 80 year life to helping almost 100 senior couples cope with aged dementia, and to establishing a respite centre for sufferers. Zero help from council or government, just zero, in spite of years of requests. No, Shane Howard, keep your lousy medal. It is obviously meaningless, handed out for no good reason.
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Who???
Who wants a treaty with whom and for what? Am I supposed to be some bad guy because I’m the wrong skin colour?
Run along, kids, playtime is over.
zzz3857, look at the 3 Flowcharts pages 110-112 of the Uluru doc. At the Fed level, the Referendum fail means Labor need to proceed with a Joint Parliamentary Committee. Looks like the same thing at State level. The LNP are either playing spoiler politics or have actually woken up to what it is they signed onto earlier.
Check the Flowcharts – malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/26-page-Doc-14-Uluru-Statement-from-the-Heart.pdf – .
UNDRIP dropped their plan on the table and is waiting. I don’t know if politicians can walk it back, some might be too compromised, eg secret videos of illegal activity or proof they knew the vaxx was a bio-weapon.
@Alan Vaughn. I hear you. The majority of Australians think they put the political elites in their place. And now that’s done – at least for now. They are cheerful, getting back to normal, putting CoVID behind them and people are GRATEFUL to the gov’t they can now travel freely without quanantines, masks etc. These are the same chowder heads who will tell people with ‘Long CoVID’ [ ie vaxx injured either through injection or shedding] to see their doctors etc. Doctors!!! WTF!!! BP now going from 125 / 85 to 175 / 100
I maintain a high level of anger about the fact that anyone was ever made to wear a mask and breathe their own CO2 or that government put the entire nation under house arrest or that virtually all employers in my community mandated. And now Operation CoVID Shield / Big Pharma is running The Mandela Effect and saying ‘we never mandated’ – it was your choice etc. All this still makes my blood boil. So before social occaisions, I do have to take the Blue Pill.
They don’t get it. Clearly. The enemies of their nation are in power and they are working assiduously to lock it down and normalize the United [Communist] Nations regime at all levels of gov’t in this country. And yes the assets of this take-over in the West are WEFfies. And in the Eastern Bloc busy with the Eurasian Project -they are SPIEFfies.
It is absolutely in the interests of the Revolution and its UN Agenda to keep the Australians from seeing the Revolution and its nexus and sistema. So now it’s time for the two steps back and nicey-nicey. And this sends my BP up to 185 / 105
Alan Vaughn, said:
“so we should just go straight to Pat from Vic’s solution, which only requires some streets lined lamp posts and a few thousand feet of strong rope.”
Pat from Victoria may have the much needed solution. The longer we do little to nothing, the more likely Pat’s solution will be the only workable option left.
I agree with Pat, all legal like, we are not savages.
Its OK… found this on the guardian…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/19/queensland-treaty-qld-premier-annastacia-palaszczuk-lnp-backflip-indigenous-first-nations-truth-telling
Its because Palachook says she won’t go ahead without bipartisan support…
We said No in the referendum but there is some argument going on about a Path to Treaty? What does that mean – are they trying to circumvent the result somehow? Can someone please explain…
Apparently there is an emergency Parliament meeting this afternoon – Palachook says it can’t go ahead as it needs bipartisan approval, and Chrisafoulis has said no…
Please explain someone…
ron
The only way to stop the rot and clean up the mess, is to get rid of our three levels of shonky corporate governments. Anything less will be a complete waste of time and effort.
Amen. 100% agree.
All to be done as/when/where justified and o course, fair and legal/lawful.
Nope. They don’t afford us that sort of respect or consideration, so we should just go straight to Pat from Vic’s solution, which only requires some streets lined lamp posts and a few thousand feet of strong rope.
daviddd2
Surely, you couldn’t possibly mean our independent and objectively balanced public information and news provider… the ABC?
Not entirely, but you’re right: that globalist owned & controlled freedom destroying, anti-humanity and fear peddling propagandist organization is largely to blame for ‘we the sheople’s’ apathy and docility – all believe everything’s ‘bonza’ as long as we do whatever Australia’s favorite ‘Aunty’ tells us we must.
And the cancer you mention is the same as any other type – needs to be cut out if we’re to have any hope of surviving much longer.
That would be a good first step towards positive change.
The whole treasonous, humanity loathing institution of deceit needs be totally defunded forthwith.
BTW: The last time I ever watched the ABC was when a popular British drama series called ‘The Bill’ – was still churning out new episodes each week. Probably around 2005?
Don’t listen to any nauseating, cringeworthy ABC radio stations, or any other (AM or FM) public radio broadcasts now anymore and I live in a remote area, where ABC AM is the only radio station available once I’m further than about 15 miles away from my house. No need to listen to any Australian radio propagandists (government or commercially funded) anymore, as there are about 12,000 online live-streaming radio stations from all over the world now, so don’t have to suffer the humiliation of infuriating local Australian fearmongering agitprop. Hundreds, even thousands of those live streaming stations don’t have any news bulletins or nauseating advertisements, only music that I actually like.
I used to be an avid 2GB and sometimes 2UE listener years ago, but even that once great source of current affairs with lively talk-back (which I often participated in), has devolved into yet another propagandist’s soap-box to inject the government’s desired narratives into the vacuous minds of the lockstep marching majority.
The last time I even turned on my 55 inch TV was around 2018. Now, I don’t even know or care whether or not the stupid thing still works. The blatant lies that constantly flow make me want to smash it, so best just to leave it off with power and antenna unplugged. That corner of the lounge room looks a bit empty with no TV, so its still there. Also, I still need it sometimes to access the menus of my advanced audio system which I still use and enjoy.
“This battle is far from over and the real enemy that still walks freely among us is still validating the globalists lies and enabling it all ”
Surely, you couldn’t possibly mean our independent and objectively balanced public information and news provider… the ABC?
Or do you mean the woke, propagandist $1 BILLION per annum brainwashing and gaslighting company… the ABC?
Nothing will or can happen until a sizable number of the 60% DEMAND and ENSURE that the ABC lives up to its charter on HONESTLY AND FAIRLY informing, AND reporting to, the Aussie public!
Letting the cancer fester will lead to serious health consequences for all of us.
Lyndesymonds
In hybrid warfare, individual rules of engagement come together on convergent axes of opposition to an occupying power.
No point telling me that Lynde. I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said since I began reading and following this forum… You’re certainly well ahead of the game and make a lot of sense.
What I was blowing off steam about in my most recent comment below, was the same thing I’ve always been frustrated and even angry about, which goes back long before we ever heard of their covid-19 hoax and this ‘Voice’, blatant act of treason.
That being the pathetic apathy, complacency, cowardice and general blissful ignorance being demonstrated by the average Aussie citizen.
Which obviously does not apply to anyone who regularly comments on this blog.
I often use the term ‘we the sheople’ as a general term meaning the same group of sleepwalking, gleefully compliant, dumbed-down drones, which despite what many here like to believe is still the vast majority:
Just because 60% voted NO in that farcical ‘referendum’, it does NOT mean the sheep are finally ‘waking up’. Sure many have, but even now that they’re aware of what’s really going on, how many are willing or would even bother to try anything like push-back? Even simple passive resistance – non compliance. I.e. you’d probably find a large percentage of NO voters are are up-to-date with their ‘covid’ booster shots and wouldn’t dare ‘rock the boat’ by not complying with any of the ridiculous rules, such as wearing face diapers etc..
No-one from that particular demographic, (so-called ‘normies’), apart from the odd marauding climate cult troll, would normally be found posting comments here.
IOW: This battle is far from over and the real enemy that still walks freely among us is still validating the globalists lies and enabling it all by their blissful ignorance, apathy and cowardice, and their gleeful compliance.
Working it all down to a very basic understanding or on a keep it simple stupid (KISS) level, my conclusions are:
They (NWO, governments. etc) have already harmed and killed many millions / billions all over the earth. And they are hell bent on harming and killing (murdering) the vast majority of the rest of us, including most of their minions and lackeys.
The only way to stop the rot and clean up the mess, is to get rid of our three levels of shonky corporate governments. Anything less will be a complete waste of time and effort.
All to be done as/when/where justified and o course, fair and legal/lawful.
From Mike Smith news.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/pms-office-orders-paid-referendum-loss-leave.html
“A message to all APS staff on the referendum
Monday 16 October 2023 news
“Colleagues,
On Saturday 14 October, Australians were asked to vote in a referendum on whether the constitution should be changed to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. The referendum did not pass.
The referendum was a significant event, and the vote will be a cause for reflection for many. In this context we would like to talk with you about three matters.
First, we acknowledge the emotional costs of a long and sometimes acrimonious public debate, regardless of any citizen’s personal view on the proposition before the Australian people. You and your colleagues may be experiencing many different emotions. At times the referendum debate has been confronting, and for some distressing. There will be colleagues in the APS, their families or communities, who experienced racism, discrimination and harassment. The impact will be felt far beyond the vote.
We ask that we treat each other with empathy, kindness and respect. Please don’t assume your colleagues want to talk about the referendum but, if they do, please listen with an open heart. If you are struggling or need support please ask for help. Various wellbeing services are available through your Employee Assistance Program. Leave provisions including personal, miscellaneous or cultural leave may also be available. Please contact your people team for information or visit Australian Public Service Commission.
Second, we are keen to acknowledge, and express our thanks for, the manner in which every part of the public service conducted itself during the referendum. Some of you worked directly on the referendum, assisting the essential work of a fair and open national vote. Throughout the process the public service retained its impartiality and that deserves respect. Thank you. Through the referendum campaign the APS has lived and honoured all the APS Values. Such actions create public confidence in the integrity of the APS, by treating the community and each other with appropriate professional standards. We commit to continue upholding these values of impartial advice, service for the Australian people, and an accountable Service which is respectful and ethical.
Finally, the referendum was about changing the constitution. The outcome of the vote does not affect work already underway across the APS to create better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, including the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and other reforms. These and other initiatives are a priority and must endure. Our work together will continue to highlight the significant contribution of First Nations Peoples to Australian society and values, our economy and environment.
We are committed to an APS in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees thrive in fulfilling careers and culturally safe workplaces. This will be amplified through new initiatives such as the SES100 Indigenous leadership initiative, increasing the number of First Nations employees in the APS to five per cent, and strengthening cultural capability through the Cultural Capability Hub.
Ms Jody Broun
Chief Executive Officer
National Indigenous Australians Agency
Professor Glyn Davis AC
Secretary
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Dr Gordon de Brouwer
Australian Public Service Commissioner “
@Alan Vaughn. Every day we have to get up and have at them again. Everyone should review his or skill set and find where each one personally can concentrate those skills in one area of opposition.
In hybrid warfare, individual rules of engagement come together on convergent axes of opposition to an occupying power.
Australians are at war with the Marxist take-over of Australia and a population that organizes personally and collectively to take possession of the ground it occupies can make life absolute F*ing Hell for a would-be occupying power.
If Abcorp and its social, industrial complex wants to play the role of ‘useful’ idiot in this convergent phase of the Communist Revolution and restructuring of Australia in accordance with the UN, then they will get the blowback. And this will play in Big Jew Media as ‘racist’ – a nonsense term invented by Leon Trotsky to demonize the European Russians targeted for extinction and slavery by the Jewish Bolsheviks.
Lindesymonds, they’re taking us where they want.
A democratic voice is a mere annoyance if it doesn’t agree.
The Referendum was an attempt to get the majority to agree to the Aust Gov-UNDRIP deceit. If YES had won then the Gov and MSM could have held the high ground by saying this (Voice and Treaty) is what you, the public, voted for. Now the Gov has a problem as 60% of people saw through the BS. They might have got a majority YES if they didn’t play the Scamdemic card first. That crime woke a lot of people. 40% are too dumb to notice.
Albo is waiting for his bosses to come back from a week of sulky silence & angry plotting before he announces the next leg of this sh*tshow, on their behalf.
Next Leg of Sh*t Show:
In the 26 page Uluru Statement doc (eg malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/26-page-Doc-14-Uluru-Statement-from-the-Heart.pdf ) page 111, what comes next:
Roadmap #2 to Makarrata Commission Bill –
Garma Makarrata Roadmap OR Referendum >
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Voice >
Makaratta Commission Bill >
> Roadmap # 3 (where via) ‘Umpire’ (we end up with) ‘First Nations Voice’ and ‘First Nation’.
Bye bye Australia, it was good while it lasted.
Also from the 26 page doc, point #15. “A Bill establishing the Voice should be presented to the Commonwealth Parliament within the second year following a successful referendum or settlement of the Garma Makarrata Roadmap.”
That means it will likely be a done deal by late 2025. The Referendum was a farce, a wasteful $350M pretense of democracy in action.
Of Treason
John Harington
“Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason”.
Lindesymonds
And this is in the context of his arrogant dismissal of the Referendum result. Nothing to bother about here. We [who does he mean ‘WE’?] are now moving right along – respecting the week of grief and mourning called by the Indigenous leaders.
And what are we the
peoplesheople going to do about it… ?Yeah, that’s it: NOTHING. Just sit back, accept it whether you like it or not and continue to comply.
And smile 😊 We’re still allowed to travel anywhere we like beyond where we can walk to within 15 minutes from our legally designated homes, even fly to distant places in aeroplanes, without wearing a hideous, dehumanizing face diaper and, heaven forbid: are even allowed to hug other humans… even those dangerous ‘unvaccinated’ ones.
So, make the most of your
GodGovernment-given freedom and human rights, while there’s still a little left to be enjoyed.[Sarc] Hey, that reminds me… I just thought of a good idea:
Maybe if we all hurry-up and get our digital IDs and vaccine passports, plus ensure our covid boosters are up-to-date: they’ll let us remain living in our own properties (which we legally bought & paid for), as tenants for a few more years, while we wait for them to finish building those environmentally friendly and ‘super convenient’ SMART cities we’ll all be more than happy to move into, because we’ll gleefully comply and do NOTHING to stop them. /SARC
Pat from Vic has the ideal solution but are there enough power poles and rope?
In the Sky News Video I uploaded yesterday to the CN Comments Board : “Albanese slammed for refusing to scrap Makarrata Commission” [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2nZHaorrHM ] PM Albo – the general factotum for his Masters – makes a significant reference to the referendum council.
I think that should be: The Referendum Council.
And this is in the context of his arrogant dismissal of the Referendum result. Nothing to bother about here. We [who does he mean ‘WE’?] are now moving right along – respecting the week of grief and mourning called by the Indigenous leaders.
He then informs us that he has been advised by The Referendum Council to proceed to Makarrata. It looks like the Makarrata Commission and The Referendum Council are either the same or have the same directorate.
Isn’t it precisely this type of body (purely advisory – of course) which was the subject of the Referendum and about which we have just said NO – we don’t want one of those.
Well if the PM Albo references The Referendum Council in context of overturning the Referendum vote, then this is an Uluru Statement Referendum Council with GOVERNANCE across the political spectrum. That 450 million dollar exercise was just a formality – it would seem.
So Tough Titties, we have had an Uluru Statement council governance all along. They were already in place and exercising the functions of GOVERNANCE that we have just said NO we are not going to amend the Constitution to allow for one of those. And despite the Referendum result they are going anywhere except onwards to Makarrata with the government in tow.
Like the CoVID Politburo ie The National Cabinet – another covert body of GOVERNANCE is operative.
crisscross767 – “Thomas Mayo blames Voice defeat on politicians who ‘lied to the Australian people’…”
He’s right.
He was one of them. And so were fake “PM” AnAL and all the rest of the treasonous baby-eating Globalist psychopath stooges.
And just BTW, Mayo’s not even Aboriginal – he’s halfe-caste Filipino/European. And this worthless activist piece of shit wants HIS snout in the trough when the UN divides up and sells off Australia to their corporate Globalist cronies.
And also just BTW, Mayo is a rabid Communist – the WORST kind, not the good kind like Fidel Castro who actually gave a shit about his people.
I say, Shane, did you miss a few unfortunate facts and manipulations about the statement from the heart?
https://youtu.be/7Q-TjAYr_S4
“In January 2016, Howard was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the performing arts as a singer, songwriter and guitarist, to the recording industry, and to Indigenous musicians” – wikipedia
Would that mean for significant service to the agenda which failed on Saturday? If it didn’t have a pretentious “native theme” his Solid Rock “hit” had little to otherwise recommend it.
“🇦🇺Last Saturday needs to be Day#1 of our Independence Day to fight and win back OUR nation for ALL genuine and patriotic Australians.”
Seems the 40% don’t give a shit what the 60% think. They’ll keep brainwashing the kids until they have brainwashed enough of them to a majority.
At 40% they only need to brainwash a little over 1 in 10 to get there !!!!!
Unless it’s stopped somehow, the brainwashing will succeed within a decade at most. It’s amazing how people can be convinced to cut their own throats for a feelgood stupidity someone is feeding them for breakfast, lunch and tea..
David A – see how desperate the ultra-zionist hatemongers are getting …
• ‘Palestinians’ bomb Gaza hospital, Trudeau, Tlaib and media blame Israel
• OCT 18, 2023 8:30 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER – Jihad Watch
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/palestinians-bomb-gaza-hospital-trudeau-tlaib-and-media-blame-israel
Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Jordan Peterson, Avi Yemeni et al are gnashing and wailing for the blood of innocent women and children.
Cairns News, why aren’t you reporting on the genocide taking place right now in Gaza, instead of these relatively unimportant side issues? I mean a Baptist hospital was bombed in Gaza today killing hundreds of innocent civilians!!
Saw this character and his band Goanna at the Tivoli Theatre, with a group of friends, about forty years ago.
Sure, they had that one catchy song—which despite its unjustifiably reverential theme re the Abos (that I recall being peeved by even back then) we all enjoyed and danced along to.
However his mind remains stuck in a groove, much like a needle in an old record.
Now, returning his OAM, it only reaffirms the clown never deserved it anyway.
Four decades down the track we can see where this slippery slope of misplaced deference to so called Aboriginal culture, this existential threat to OUR nation all leads.
We dodged, admittedly by a substantial margin, more than a bullet last Saturday.
We dodged a nuclear holocaust.
Sure, congratulate ourselves and breathe a mighty sigh of relief. However the fact nearly four in ten Australians of voting age fell for this fraud, or wish to essentially destroy the nation, is hardly reason to celebrate.
The Voice to Perdition was premised not merely on Albosleazy’s outrageous lie that this was “merely a minor change to the Constitution”. It was based upon a litany, a mountain of monumental, very deliberate falsehoods.
We can no longer climb Ayer’s Rock (stop calling it Uluru), Mt Warning, the Grampians, the Three Sisters, an ever expanding number of locations that belong to ALL Australians.
This barricading off, this sneaky and limitless theft of OUR country has to be reversed, rectified AND ended.
Anytime (which is all the time a Blak Armband activist opens their mouth) you hear these sly tropes such as “traditional”; “traditional owners”; “Country” (denuded of the indefinite pronoun); and even more manipulative forms of sophistry such as “cultural” and “spiritual” and whatnot—the rhetorical equivalence of smoke quite literally being blown in our faces as at these insulting “Welcome to Country” pantomimes—realise what’s really being done.
It’s all voodoo sophistry, aimed at enabling the ongoing theft and destruction of OUR Australia.
🇦🇺Last Saturday needs to be Day#1 of our Independence Day to fight and win back OUR nation for ALL genuine and patriotic Australians.
Voice may have been defeated but the Uluru Agenda is proceding with the Makarrata Commission to Treaty. This is the goal of he Uluru statement.
The corporate pretenders to the Commonwealth Gov’t of Australia can’t get there by Constitutional Referendum. Not to worry there are other ways to arrive at the goal. And they are still on track.
Albanese has refused to scrap the Makarrata Commission
I wonder if Shane Howard’s bank 💵 💰💰💰 account got topped up…
I hope Shane Howard is reading all these posts, he might learn a thing or two…
Thomas Mayo blames Voice defeat on politicians who ‘lied to the Australian people’ | ABC News
Hey Shane! 60% of Aussies are NOT interested in racism and division being entrenched in the Constitution. If you have a problem with that then foff .
Boo hoo another ego maniac, no one gives a shit. It’s been handed out to some very dubious people and is of no real consequence or importance any hooos. Foff lefty moron with your decisive racial bullshit.
Correction:
In September 2023, Garrett publicly advocated for the “Yes” campaign in the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, a vote to change the Australian Constitution to enshrine a Voice to Parliament for Indigenous Australians. He also provided ongoing support of the Yes campaign in the lead up to the unsuccessful referendum. – Wikipedia
Shane Howard says “I love my country” who says that in Australia? Having lived here 50 years raised an Aussie family , never, ever heard anyone say “I love my country “ lived in N.Ireland 14 years, through the “troubles” the IRA, British army occupation, murder oppression & riots, never, ever heard anyone say “I love my country “
It’s an AMERICAN THING. “I love my country, I love our flag” Just a suspicion but it seems a lot of what we are getting here is typical of the Southern Poverty Law Centre (USA) or maybe ADL
Shane Howard’s heart was full for the aboriginal people but this Referendum was never about voting yes or no so we could feel “proud of my nation” or not. It was a Referendum to change our Constitution. To insert a singular group of people into a position of power within the Parliament. Australians have been saved from the thrust of this power, mercifully and thankfully, and from those proud people who do not love Australia.
My reasons for saying this come from The Age September 23, 2023 article Legacy, power and the truth about politicians: Lunch with Mark Leibler, by Stephen Brook. He states:
Noel Pearson joined Arnold Bloch Leibler in the 1990s to do his articles under Leibler and understand how commerce and the world worked from inside a commercial law firm.
“He always looked towards the Jewish community,” Leibler says of his protege. “He said to me on more than one occasion that he would hope that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders could emulate what we’ve succeeded in doing. In other words, avoiding assimilation, but achieving full integration. I think the Jewish community has done that very successfully. And that was his vision for the Indigenous community.”
The Powerbroker moniker was bestowed on him [Mark Leibler] by the former editor-in-chief of The Age, Michael Gawenda, as the title of his 2020 biography. Emblazoned on the front is a quote from Pearson.
“Power, he taught me about power. How to get it and how to use it.”
Stephen Brook quotes Mark Leibler:
On politicians, he says, people tend to overlook that they are “ordinary human beings and subject to the same human foibles as we are”.
“The other thing that one has to understand about politicians is that it is all about power. And the one consistent stream which runs through what politicians do and say is the desire to remain in power, which means winning elections, at all costs. And very often the loser in all of this is principles.
“My point is that if you’re working with politicians and if you don’t understand that, you’re not going to get anywhere.”
Source: theage.com.au/national/legacy-power-and-the-truth-about-politicians-lunch-with-mark-leibler-20230919-p5e5ta.html
The 2020 biography, The Powerbroker, referred to by Stephen Brook, has Noel Pearson’s quote emblazoned on the front – ‘He taught me about power – how to get it and how to use it’. This shows us just how crooked this whole Voice was, and what a wicked scam was perpetrated upon the Australian people. We were being set up. The worst thing is that the Aboriginal people were being set up to emulate another group that does not assimilate but is integrated, so integrated and united within themselves that I have not heard them call themselves Australians.
Thankfully, the October 14 2023 Referendum result has reiterated that all Australians share equality under our Constitution. The resounding NO to the seeds of racial privilege and pride have been eschewed in Australia for all the world to see. The principles contained within our Commonwealth Constitution that we are Australians, standing as one under one flag, will not change. This Commonwealth Constitution of Australia 1901 is the highest law in our land and we the people are protected under its laws, with rights to land and rights to freedom of health.
This Referendum result has been a powerful majority voice from the people so let’s now hold our ground as we move on.
Perhaps the Monash University Publishing website would not today end its review with:
Through one man’s story, this book shows how power works in Australia.
Source: publishing.monash.edu/product/the-powerbroker/
“Seen the rise of intentional and well-resourced disinformation networks.”
That would be the YES campaign.
Who cares
who cares – these people who are ashamed of our Country should move to some place better. the less malcontents the happier the rest of us will be
I love my birth country deeply but until we loose(sic) our colonial shackles, engage in Treaty-making with our First Peoples, commit to truth-telling about our history and embrace a post-colonial Republic, I cannot be proud of my nation.”
No treaty is going to solve the soaring rates of STD among Aboriginal children in Aboriginal communities.
This requires organization, real community leadership, social services and practical, on the ground active measures.
And that is on the Aboriginal Industry and how they have used the 40 billion / year from the Australian taxpayer for the social progress and development of 3% of the Australian population. They have used that money in such a way as to build a political powerbase and used the most marginalised of Australians as a ‘plight’ to play the Race Card on the Whites and Long March a UN Agenda.
And now they are drumming up the sorry busines, regrouping and getting ready to get that Uluru Treaty through the states.
Where are the self-flagellating Whites when you need them?
How Elites Prefer to Viture Signal Rather Than Help / Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Just back from a Perth to Broome tour, many “welcomes to country” but all by white people… no “custodians” to be found anywhere but the countryside was spectacular, kept clean & tidy by others.
Finally arrived for lunch at Broome by the waterfront and within 30 minutes saw a local bloke bashing a woman with a resident mob watching on… and yes, the park was a mess.
Seriously they need the audits as a matter of urgency. These people need help and they are simply not getting it coming through at all properly to them.
It gets better… Monkey Mia’s dolphins are now protected by officials feeding them fish while wearing MASKS “to protect the dolphins from our germs”. Good grief 🙁
Sleeping like a baby!
Just read apparently one of the activists has a bank account balance of $13m…. I say they should ALL BE AUDITED… Just to be sure?
The poor bastard, here’s a handkerchief. Now let’s see, did I get this right? There’s $30 billion a year, free taxis, housing and electricians to change a light bulb, Social Security, 80% of Australia and mining royalties, $50 a day for children to attend school, no tax for the elite 1% abos etc etc. Don’t you think that’s pretty generous?
We don’t owe them a thing.
George: “Good, well done now FOff. WE said NO to racism and division. <:o)"
I second that! That's enough from these wankers who want to paint Aussies as racists. Enough is enough.
These elites hate losing don’t they, tantrums and name-calling all over the place. The only “misinformation” and lies/obfuscation came from AnAl and the Yes brigade, but AUSTRALIANS saw through it. The “covid” deception started the distrust in the Government and this has cemented it in place- suck eggs, UN and WEF stooges.
Another irrelevant Aussie music entity espousing their ignorance and stupidity, indulging in sanctimonious virtue signalling.
Surprisingly, that other sell-out Stooge, Peter Garrett, has been very quiet over the voice campaigning period.
I would have praised him if he had returned the award to the pretend Governor General on the grounds that the OAM is no longer of any moral worth, as it has been handed out to many unworthy characters.
Good, well done now FOff. WE said NO to racism and division. <:o)
This is about egos.
I am fed up to the back teeth with people who think that because they are famous (for whatever irrelevant reason), or have written a song, this endows them with special status.
In a democracy, we all have the same right to speak, to be listened to, and be disregarded if we prove to be a fool. Great song; dumb lyrics. That’s OK; most songs are like that. Mandawuy’s Yothu Yindi song “Treaty” was a great song, inspirational, great beat, terrific melody, cool lyrics, and communicated to people all over the world. But from the point of view of geopolitical reality and power in the hands the few, it was downright stupid. Just as well the world is not run by songwriters.
America’s record on treaties with indigenous people is a horror story. The US was busy massacring some people before the ink had even dried on their treaties. And the US owns and runs Australia so it is the US experience that is relevant.
The flip side of the Yothu Yindi song is that Mandawuy’s tribe, the Gumatj, is the most corrupt in Australia, bitterly resented by other Arnhem Land tribes for stealing their land, and threatening the theft or destruction of others. Moreover, the Gumatj are complicit in treason and are reputed to be the NLC enforcer. Mandawuy was just fine with all of this. So the song and concept of “Treaty” rings hollow indeed.
There is no excuse for Shane Howard not knowing all of this and he should humbly bow his head and regret ever being part of the PR war that is destroying Aboriginal culture and lives. Most especially, he should have been grateful he had the opportunoty to make amends and vote ‘No’.
The UNi-party backs UN-DRIP
Ending representative government to silence our voice
Josephine Cashman
17 Oct 2023
“If you think the parliament is acting for the interests of Australians, be warned.
In spite of an overwhelming defeat of the Uluru Voice Corporate Con, Thorpe announced not long after the referendum results were tallied that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) would become Australian law by December. Australians will be left voiceless as a result of UNDRIP, which replaces our representative government system…………….”
https://josephinecashman.substack.com/p/the-uni-party-backs-un-drip
Good, now they can give it to the more deserving Jacinta Price.
John Postle – “There was never a mention of how disrespectful the Yes campaign was to those whose family members lost years of their lives and even paid the ultimate sacrifice defending this country in WW2”.
Thanks, that needed to be said.
The Yes voters should hand their heads in shame .
There was never a mention of how disrespectful the Yes campaign was to those whose family members lost years of their lives and even paid the ultimate sacrifice defending this country in WW2.
They would have been horrified by the whole concept of “Pay The Rent” and being constantly welcomed to country at most public events.
They would also be disgusted by amazing parts of Australia being locked to public access while at the same time the Net Zero cult destroys vast swathes of Australia’s environment to install and connect thousands of wind turbines and solar panels.
It’s eye-opening and troubling the way the results of the referendum are not being accepted, especially by the ABC, which repeatedly fails to be impartial, but instead insults the majority of Australians, whose taxes pay for such a disservice.
“An important historical moment of destiny’!
Translation: He’s off his head. Next space cadet, please!
He is deeply saddened that the majority of Australians voted for equality before the law and under the Constitution, regardless of race. How dare these people think for themselves.
Another sheeple who obviously has no idea of “real” world events, and spat out his dummy to get noticed. Look at me, look at me.
I suggest he attend a smoking ceremony to help with his deep sadness.
Like many others he is ignorant of what a Yes vote would have really meant for every Australian, including the Aboriginal people.
Please read Mr Howard…
https://stephenreason.substack.com/p/the-voice-of-deception-how-the-voice?r=17nqkb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Shane has shown us, by his shallow thinking, that he is not a very intelligent person.
He is speaking from a emotive point of view, and has not looked any further.
Shane, why don’t you ask where the billions of dollars have gone, that were thrown at the Aboriginals? It certainly didn’t reach those that need it.
No one throws billions at ordinary white folk.That in itself, creates diversity…not good for a country.
The U.N./W.E.F. is behind the Voice…they want our country with all its assets.They do not care about Aboriginals….ordinary Aussies do!
If Yes had won, they would have succeeded.
If you can’t see that, Shane, then you do not deserve the medal you handed back.
Beware of Judas Goats
Deceiving us to divide us
Josephine Cashman
Oct 17
“……………….I care about all Australians. This is why I’m warning you. They have tried to destroy Aboriginal Australia. They are coming for all Australians next. They hide the truth to divide us. Australians have to open their eyes to the lies. We have to fight together with One Voice”.
https://josephinecashman.substack.com/p/beware-of-judas-goats
So Shane Howard wanted to cause a deep divide and rift between those with aboriginal blood in them and those that don’t!! Shame on you. Most of those with aboriginal blood in them have our own dna mixed in with theirs. You can cause division and anger in your family – but don’t touch mine!
Songwriter returns OAM to governor…
… a bit like the Suicide Squad in The Life of Brian (and about as creditable).
That’ll show ’em!
The author quoted Shane Howard – “At this point in history, I can’t be proud of my nation and feel honour bound to return my Order of Australia medal.”
At this point in history, Shane Howard should be thanking his lucky stars that we still HAVE a country.
No thanks to doe-eyed utopian dickheads like him.
So he has had 40 years to reflect the inept structural mechanisms that are currently in place to A- provide and B – bring change for the betterment of all aboriginal and Torres strait people only to think a Voice no policies slogan would be the almighty saviour.
Wake up go smoke some more pot.
unbelievable ,bleeding hearts , I hope it swell intentioned but rooted in not knowing and not understanding real reason. for Albanese’s fraudulent and misleading expensive and wasteful division of Australian society on behalf greedy and monstrous Globalists,WEF,UN,WHO.Australians, in millions said NO to overtaking of their country, but some of #well educated# fools were blinded to deception.
Iconic I don’t think so. One hit wonder didn’t deserve OAE anyway.
Rather than try guilt-trip those standing against the NWO, he could return the medal to the UN as a show of subservient devotion.
““Australians had missed an important historical moment of destiny.””
Ground Control to Major Tom… Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong… There you are, floating round your tin can… Far above the moon…
Simply answer. Just deport him to a country that will accept him and also one where there is no history of dispossession. Good luck with that