We were duped to believe that Novak Djokovic's deportation had anything to do with vaccination or freedoms. It was pure revenge by mining interests, to put Djovokic in his place for his support of the protests against a $2.4 billion dollar lithium mine in Serbia. Lithium is
• 3 min readNovak Djokovic's case is not about his vaccination status, or his medical exemption or the health travel survey check box. It is about personal freedoms; freedom of thought, movement and bodily autonomy. The Australian government accepts his medical exemption. Further to this, it is about censorship and mass
• 3 min readBy Alan Hamilton Preface 20 Dec 2021 The following blog post was written btw 23-26 March 2020. It contains my assessment of the Covid 19 pandemic a mere 6 weeks into the event. I was about to publish this article on Linked-In and circulate if for republication elsewhere until a
• 20 min readIf your house was on fire, would you let it burn down rather than let an unjabbed firefighter put it out? Would you prefer a surf lifesaver or student over a fully qualified and experienced unjabbed paramedic in an emergency call out? How about your frail grandparent being treated by
• 5 min readAs we walked to Point Ormond yesterday evening, I thought of my eighth-grade teacher, the mother of Tony Stewart, one of the Balibo 5 who was an Australian journalist, murdered by Indonesian forces on 16th October 1975. He was killed to prevent him and his fellow journalists from reporting about
• 6 min readYesterday, I pushed myself to go to the protest. It was incredibly hot, humid and the heat from the concrete below was stifling. I was pushed to my physical limits. Very few came to it, unlike the hundreds of thousands, just a few Saturdays earlier. It was New Years Day
• 4 min readI don't have a problem being excluded from society because I have lived on the fringes of mainstream society for over 3 decades but it is a bitter pill to swallow when your own flesh and blood turns on you so viciously, accusing you of all sorts of
• 3 min readIn war, you understand the target and your opponent, their weaknesses and strengths, the likely scenarios and how things play out under various strategic measures. In 2017, The Center for Health Security ran a SPARS Pandemic exercise narrative that comprised of a futuristic scenario about a novel coronavirus and the
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