I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Men at Work

I love a sun-burnt country
I like my toast well done
I like girls with long brown legs
I watch them as they run
My Country, after Dorothea McKellar

History

• The Crown – the view from Down Under
• Small Stories – A Tale of Twin Pines
• Small Stories – the schools of the Tarkeeth 
• Small Stories – Crossing the South Arm 
• Tel al Sabi – Tarkeeth’s ANZAC Story
• The Watchers of the Water – a song about Gallipoli
• So far away from home – the Diggers who fought in Spain
• The agony and extinction of Blinky Bill 
• Menzies’ excellent Suez Adventure 
• Martin Sparrow’s Blues – a tale of the young colony of New South Wales
• Farewell to Old England forever … reappraising The Fatal Shore
• Banjo’s Not So Jolly Swagman – Australia’s could’ve been anthem 
• The Ballad of ‘the Breaker’ – Australia’s Boer War
• Bringing it all back home – the missing mosaic and other ‘stolen’ stuff  

History & Politics – Indigenous Australians and the Voice to Parliament

• Silencing The Voice – the Anatomy of a No voter
• Hopes and fears – the morning after the referendum for The Voice
• The Uluru Statement from the Heart
• A Voice crying in the wilderness
• We oughtn’t to fear an Indigenous Voice – but we do
• Warrior woman – the trials and triumphs of Marcia Langton
• If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken … the emptiness of “No”
• Martin Sparrow’s Blues
• The Frontier Wars – Australia’s heart of darkness
• Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land – a poet’s memorial to a forgotten crime   
• A bridge from past to present – the forgotten memoirs of Alice Duncan-Kemp
• Killing for Country … dark deeds in a sunny land 

Politics – Other

• We’ve Got The Australia Day Blues 
• Outside Looking In
• Conservatism in Crisis
• Western Civilization – The long, dark tea-time of The Australian’s soul
• The Oz’s lonely crusade For western civilization
• Milo Down Under  
• Free Speech, One Each!
• How the “Lucky Country” lost its mojo
• Hearing voices – is Teal the real deal?
• Australia Votes – The Decline and Fall of the Flimflam Man
• Arguments of Monumental Proportions

For wider reading about Australian history, I highly recommend William Lines’ challenging Taming of the Great South Land’, the late Robert Hughes’ magisterial The Fatal Shore, David Day’s Claiming a Continent, and Bruce Pascoe’s challenging Dark Emu. 

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… they were standin’ on the shore one day
Saw the white sails in the sun
Wasn’t long before they felt the sting
White man, white law, white gun
Solid Rock, Goanna 1982