 Editorials from the Public First Program aired on Gippsland FM 104.7, Thursdays at 11:00am (AEST). An alternative viewpoint on local, national and international events. Often polemic, always controversial. Highly researched and presented by Shane Elson an award winning radio commentator and producer. Available free of charge. Only ask is that, if used, quoted or otherwise referred to, that proper acknowledgement be given.Primary Format :
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July 2008 #2 - Seven Deadly Annoyances
Here are seven things I think should be included in the New South Wales ‘Pope’ laws.
Just in case you haven’t heard, the NSW government passed a number of laws that give not only police but also “emergency services personnel” special powers to impose fines of up to $5,300 for behaviour the person doing the booking thinks “causes annoyance or inconvenience” to people attending the Catholic Youth Day events.
The laws are just one of the concessions the state is making to ens ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2008 # 1 - East Timor, Oil and the Euro
Times are tough for “dictators”, “rogue states” and “failing nations”. It seems like it is not a good thing to be the head of a country that happens to sit on top of huge oil or gas reserves. Saddam was just the first to go. We find, if we believe the mainstream media, that Iran is threatening everyone with “nuclear” weapons, that Venezuela is being led by “communists” and that Bolivia is being ruled by “Soviet sympathisers” while little East Timor is about due for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2008 #4 - Its a Strange World
It’s a strange world out there. I’ve been watching the current political debate and the comings and goings in the ‘big house’ with interest. While the demise of the Democrats is now complete, what does lie in store for us? Perhaps the next bunch of “fairies at the bottom of the garden” will do much better “keeping the bastards honest” than being part of them. But that is not what interests me.
The rise in utilitarian, populist politics is much more interesting. Over the we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2008 #3 - Terrigals Eat Them Alive
Time travel is something that has, at some time, attracted the imagination of us all. Wouldn’t it be good to be able to travel back in time and pick the winning lotto numbers after seeing this weeks draw? Wouldn’t it be good to go back and make up with that lover you really wish you had married? Wouldn’t it be good to go back and find out why the current state of affairs is the current state of affairs?
The ‘revelations’ that Federal Labor MP, Belinda Neal and her husband, NSW L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2008 #2 - Lurking Lippy Danger - Reprise
As we read, hear and see more about how the Imperial adventure in the Middle East is going bottom up, a little known terrorist threat is looming on our back door. A bioterrorist threat more dangerous, destructive and devastating than anything seen before. This little discussed threat is, I’m sure, being monitored at the highest levels of our intelligence community and is receiving the just attention it deserves. It was only by luck (good or bad is yet to be determined) that I stumbled ac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2008 #1 - Left Right or Wrong
“All hail, the Left is dead!” Well at least according to the reality in which Ken Phillips of the Institute of Public Affairs exists. Ken is one of the Directors of this organisation and I guess he is far more qualified than me to make such a bold claim.
In an article in the Business section of The Age a week or so ago, Ken wrote that, “About six years ago some left thinkers in Labor made the shift to acceptance of market capitalism”. I won’t argue against the words he writes bu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2008 #4 - Art, Power and Parenting
Most parents begin exercising power over their children by using the ‘fear factor’. “Don’t touch. You’ll get burnt” or “Don’t play with that. It / you will break”. While these types of directives often have very practical and necessary applications, they do remain a fairly central theme as we try and guide our children / teenagers / young adults through the complex maze we call life.
However, for many parents there comes a time when all we can do is hope that we’ve giv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2008 #2 - Carers, Get a Life
Did you see 4 Corners on the ABC last Monday night? It was about the plight of the grief stricken carers and the burden they carry looking after their disabled loved ones. What a bunch of whingers? I mean, lets do a reality check here. But first some facts, drawn from the most recent federal budget.
According the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, there are 483,550 people in Australia who are cared for by someone in their immediate family or who qu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2008 # 1 - Bare Chested and Beautiful: Cabbies and Viral Unionism
Blokes with bare chests beat the big end of town! Perhaps that should have been the headline that celebrated the cabbies victory last week. It seems that not only are Melbourne’s cabbies the proudest and loudest in the country, they are also on the road to becoming the BLF of the 21st century.
But it seems that for some of the nice, quiet people, fighting for your rights as a worker is still something akin to terrorism. This is what is implied by Melissa Fyfe in her article in last Sund ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2008 #4 - Tom, GE and Bush
About this time five years ago NBC current affairs anchor, Tom Brokaw, always one to ask the "tough" questions, got an exclusive - one on one - interview with George Bush. It was revealing in a number of ways.
Firstly, NBC is owned by General Electric. Of course, GE not only try and ensure that you can make your cuppa in the morning or cook the toast just right, they also try and ensure that your multimillion dollar armaments are delivered to their targets. To warm them up a bit I suppose ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2008 #3 - William Robert and the ANZAC Legacy
William Robert Elson, Serial Number 6733, natural born British Subject, was 21 years and eight months old when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the 4th August 1916. He was sent off to the other side of the world as a private in the 22nd Regiment, 12th Battalion. He was my grandfather.
I grew up in a small town on the northwest coast of Tasmania, not far from where my grandad was born. He noted on his enlistment form that he next of kin was his father, William Elson of Spren ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2008 #2 - Porn, Footy and 9-11
What do pornography, 9-11 and Sydney Swans footballer, Barry Hall, have in common? On the surface not much but I reckon it’s worth a look.
Last weekend Barry Hall punched and concussed an opposition player in an off ball “incident” that was, fortunately for the TV networks, captured on film. The “incident” was repeatedly played on news broadcasts over the next few nights. After I’d seen it a few times I started to notice the reactions of the crowd who witnessed the punch that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2008 #1 - The Family
Ain’t the Olympics great? All the glitz! All the glamour! The prestige and the glory! Wow! I’m over the moon about the Olympics and really, really wish I could be part of the family. Don’t you? Then again the mafia is often referred to as “The Family”.
These two multinational organisations have many similarities. Lots of hopefuls are groomed for their future places. The never-could-bes are forgotten or rubbed out of the corporate memory. Lots of men in suits have incomes from in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2008 #4 - Human Rights Day 2007. Dateline Kuala Lumpur
It seems to me that wherever you go there are forces at work that seek to prevent the expression of basic human rights.
On December 10th, 1948, the United Nations adopted the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". The member states, then and now, were expected to accept the basic tenets of the document that was supposed to enshrine, in so called 'democracies', some basic criteria against which they could be measured in their legal frameworks to protect and advance basic human rights.
O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2008 #3 - Chris Berg - On yer Bike
I reckon that it must be pretty easy to get a job at the Institute for Public Affairs. But first, the grandiose title of the organisation needs some clarification. Firstly, the so-called “Institute” is not at all concerned with affairs of the public. In fact, and secondly, it has no real interest in the public, affairs or not!
What leads me to sledge the IPA again, is that each time I read their little diatribes in The Age, I am, once more, appalled that the claims the writers make ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2008 #2 - Political Animals
“Animals”. “Inhuman”. “Terrorists”. “Unmerciful killers of innocent men, women and children”. These are just of few of the epithets that are used to describe Palestinians. Not some Palestinians but all of them. The people who use these words are not using them randomly or as mere rhetorical turns of phrase. These words and many others like them, are deeply ingrained into certain classes of the Jewish ruling class and their supporters.
The events of the last few weeks show ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2008 #1 - Kids Business
As Edmond Groves swans around the US trying to flog off bits of his failing empire, mums and dads are getting worried. Now, as it happens, these mums and dads are also tax payers and, so it transpires, they have contributed mightily to the fortunes of Edmond, his missus and a few others in the inner ABC circle.
I found it rather interesting that in the huff and puff of last week’s media’s examination of the fall and fall of ABC little attention was paid to the real issue. That of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 2008 # 4 - The Great Council of the 1000
The Third World is alive and well in Australia and a gathering of the great council of 1000 of the chattering, ‘polite’ classes, gathered in the big house over a weekend, will not change a thing.
Almost unimaginable amounts of money are spent each year in trying to hide this Third World from the ‘polite’ classes or in attempts to distance the reality of this fact from those of us who choose to live here.
One of the most visible attempts to create a sense of distance between the p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Februrary 2008 #3 - Dud Laugh
You could say I’m a little obsessed by the goings on in the Big House in Canberra over the last week or so. It’s been so much fun and the irony, belly laughs and general sense of humour coming out of the place seems to indicate that we did, indeed, get dudded.
The great cultural warriors who championed the demise of political correctness and the rise of Hansonism; those who threw truth overboard as they pursued their ‘purification’ of the Australian ‘way of life’; those who be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 2008 #2 - Saying Sorry is Hard to Do
They say saying sorry is the hardest thing to do. So, are you sorry? Really, truly sorry? That seems to be a key question in the big house in Canberra this week. The other key question seems to be, why should I feel sorry? Perhaps I’ll start with the latter first.
Being born in the late 50s meant that by the time I grew into some form of understanding my community was still firmly of the view that the First Australians were inferior in many ways. I can’t recall anyone actually coming ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 2007 #2 - The End of the Line
This will be my last podcast for the time being. I’m going away on vacation during January and wont be back until sometime after that. So, I guess its appropriate to have a bit of a reflection on the year that was. In some ways things have certainly moved on and in many other ways, they have not moved at all.
Politically, one might say that we are now in a new era as the Rudd government flies out of the blocks, all guns blazing with the spin doctors working overtime. The policies are fl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 2008 #1 - Anything is Possible
Here we are, the new year and all is well. Well, well for some and not so well for others. 2008 has got off to a flying start. I certainly can’t complain. I guess I can but my woes pale into insignificance when compared to others. Nonetheless, I can’t help feeling that this year will offer little change for those, who like me, attempt to eek out an income to support a lifestyle to which we would like to become accustomed.
Politically it would seem nothing has changed. Sure we have a n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 2007 #1 - A Return to Day Zero
One wonders what will become of those who come after us. After so much hullabaloo, cheering, flag waving and chest beating, will we become a more just and equitable society? Will we be able to turn around the prevailing orthodoxies and reclaim the ‘fair go’ as our own? Will we, in the face of adversity and hardship, be able take back our futures and be able to leave a grand legacy for those that come after us?
I was reminded recently of the way our former Prime Minister, John Howard, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
November 2007 #2 - K07-The Aftermath
Here we are at the other side of the federal election. No doubt many supporters from both sides woke up on Sunday morning with hangovers and emotions they were not accustomed to.
The man of steel did his usual early morning walk but was shown up to be only chrome plated and the ‘greatest treasurer’ we have supposedly known, eventually walked (and I don’t blame him actually). “Me Too” K07 got up as did a swathe of other Labor party hacks.
The Democrats finally got what they dese ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
November 2007 #1 - Cup Day and Dictators
The news has been telling me that a horse won the Melbourne Cup this week. I guess that as sure a horse will win that race a politician or two will win the Big Race to the House on the Hill later this month. The major difference is, that we only have to waste a few days on the Cup and the horse will eventually be put out to pasture.
Thinking about horse racing and politics has led me to the following conclusions. The first is that both cost millions to get up and running. The second is th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
October 2007 #3 - A Day at the Races
Glad you could join me from Randwick for today’s Election Guineas. It’s a strong field and all bets are now in. The gates are closed and they settle. And they’re off and racing in the 2007 Election Guineas. And what a strong field it is.
Howard’s Luck got away quickly and Rudd’s Hope was caught on the hop. Turnbull’s Quagmire looks like it got away from the jockey a little while Gillard’s Dream is a strong starter. Business Council is looking good and Church Lobby is keeping ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
October 2007 #2 - Gunns and the Roosters
When I was a kid and it was legal to keep chooks in a backyard pen, we had, for a time, a rather rowdy rooster. When he wasn’t fluffing himself up to prove his dominance, or crowing at random, he was chasing the chooks. Of course, once he was deemed fat enough, he made his journey to our Sunday lunch table. I would suggest though, that this was not in the manner to which he had become accustomed.
It would seems the roosters are crowing in Tasmania, in Canberra and no doubt, in a few oth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
October 2007 #1 - We Are All Witnesses
“She lay just beside us, a young pretty woman lying on her back. She lay there as if sunbathing in the heat, and the blood running from her back was still wet. The murderers had just left. She just lay there, feet together, arms outspread, as if she had seen her saviour. Her face was peaceful, eyes closed, a beautiful woman whose head was granted a strange halo. For a clothes line hung above her and there were children’s trousers and some socks pegged to the line. Other clothes lay sca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
September 2007 #2 - Blackwater USA - Private War
We all fight a daily battle within ourselves as we negotiate a complex moral and ethical world in which conflicting values, practices and beliefs might otherwise send us stir crazy. Do we attempt to buy Australian only to find that our budget doesn’t stretch that far? Do we allow our teenage children to go to ‘that’ party even though we trust them? Do we vote for a party that will look after our individual interests or do we vote for one that advocates collective responsibility?
Eac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
September 2007 #1 - Agent of the State
How much security can you buy for $250 million these days? Thugs acting as agents of the state and not much else it would seem. The incredibly audacious stunt by the ABC’s Chaser comedy team showed just how ridiculous the whole “war on terror” scaremongering is. A dozen people dressed up as security guards, driving or running beside black limos containing, among others, someone dressed up as Osama bin Laden, kind of really tells us who the joke is on.
With passes that read, “APEC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
August 2007 #5 - Cousins of Gunns
When the wealthy begin to slog it out, you can rest assured that there is more to it than meets the eye. The latest stoush between the rich of Sydney’s harbour suburbs is being framed as something we should be interested in. And, on one level, we should.
Gunns have just about got their way in Tasmania and the Sydneysiders are arguing over the merits of the largest pulp mill in the southern hemisphere going ahead or not. What intrigues me is that John Howard hasn’t jumped in to support ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
August 2007 #3 - Which god?
In the latest bit of “me tooism” to come from Kevin – call me ’07 – Rudd we find that not only is he prepared to support one god, he seems to be taking out a divine insurance policy with the whole lot of them. Last week Kev and John went toe to toe for the Christians. They both claimed god was a neutral observer when it came to politics and that although they each felt they were doing god’s work here on earth, the other bloke most certainly wasn’t.
Looking at the detail of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
August 2007 #2 - Run to Paradise
You might have heard or seen the news reports about the way in which Olympic athletes will be gagged when it comes to talking about China’s human rights and other abuses while they’re in Beijing next year. However the head of the Australian Olympic Committee, John Coates, denied that this was the case. He told the eager media that the athletes were free to discuss anything they wanted. He told them, “I imagine you’ll all be very keen to obtain the views of our athletes and if they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
August 2007 #1 - SIM Cards and Generosity
I wonder how long it will be before you or I or someone we know is given the Haneef treatment? Judging by the hyperbole emanating from Canberra and the willingness for politicians and police to ignore fundamental rights, it should not be too long.
Within many cultures the idea of collective ownership, or at the least a willingness to share goods, means that little thought is given to the potential ramifications of a good deed. In many cultures the focus of ownership is not necessarily on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2007 #4 - Repackaging Cigarettes and Politicians
Back in the 1980’s I used to do a lot of work for the corporate PR industry. Product launches, big public spectacle events, conferences; that type of thing. Included in that line up of companies that I worked for, was a multinational tobacco company. One of the biggest promotions they did was when they introduced a new brand and wanted to ensure that it was positioned front and centre in the mind of smokers. They spent millions of dollars, ‘invested’ would be the world they used, to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2007 #3 - Body of Evidence
The human body, the carrier of the soul, heart and mind is, to my way of thinking, the most important site of conflict on earth. It is the site upon which a judge, jury and executioner all perform their roles. Roles that if carried out according to humane, just and moral principles, allow us to live without fear and to enjoy freedom, hope and liberty.
I’m writing this thinking of two bodies, those of David Hicks (David Hicks who?) and Mohamed Haneef. These two men embody the political b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2007 #2 - Oceans of Money
In a world awash with money, fame and fortune, it isn’t surprising that politicians have been recruited to ensure that the oceans of cash are kept flowing ever upwards.
A few weeks ago the Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks, became a star. The vehicle that propelled him into the world of stardom was a multi million dollar advertising campaign designed with one thing in mind; to convince a certain set within the ruling classes that his government was on their side.
Just a couple of weeks a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2007 #1 - Cold Racism
The Howard government recently sent in the troops to stamp out sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities. Mal Brough, an ex military man, was almost slavering at the opportunity to send in some of his old mates to sort out the moral panic his government had created. After ignoring a pile of reports and inquiries into the woeful state of many remote Indigenous communities, it seems the sleeping beast that is our government awoke and began devouring the latest victim group.
Isn’t it funny ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2007 #3 - All Along the Watchtower
Having a rather sad life I have to admit one of my favourite TV programs is the US prison series “OZ”. The setting of this series is a fictional prison called “OZ” – short for The Oswald State Penitentiary. Within this facility is a special section called “Emerald City”. I’ll return to OZ in a minute or two.
A recent ABC “4 Corners” program was about the way Telstra treats its workers. I have known quite a few PMG, Telecom and now Telstra workers in my time and the one ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2007 #4 - Unspoken Words Among Friends
This is an edited extract from the first draft of John Howard’s address to the Sydney Institute regarding the inequities within the Australian community.
Gerard, thank you for the warm welcome. Friends, and I can say that with confidence knowing that we share the same concerns about the grave situation facing many within our community, I might want to begin by outlining the appalling conditions under which many of our Indigenous brethren live. I could, with your indulgence begin by outl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2007 #1 - Madam Economy
I met The Economy the other day. She was sitting at a bar in a little pub I sometimes frequent when interstate. She looked rather weary and her eyes had that ‘almost one too many’ look about them. I pulled up a chair and asked her how things were.
“I’ve been a bad girl.” She said, looking me squarely in the eyes. “I feel so used. So dirty.” I asked what had brought about such a negative self appraisal. “Oh. It’s only the drink talking.” She said. “I’m just not feel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2007 #2 - When Generals Talk
Before Peter Garrett lost his way and joined the alternative capitalist party, he sang a song with the line “when the generals talk, you better listen to them”. At the time he was singing about both the military and economic generals and it is the economic generals who, to this day, continue to rule the world.
A little earlier this week the private, for profit Macquarie Bank announced its record profit of almost one and half billion dollars, a fantastic sum by any account but only sli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2007 #3 - Johnny GM Seed
I don’t think I’ve ever written a “Dear John” letter before but here goes.
John Roskam,
Institute of Public Affairs
Level 2, 410 Collins Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000
Dear John,
I read with interest your most recent opinion piece in The Age newspaper. You tackled the thorny issue of genetically modified crops and how we should not fear them nor care about their impact other than the fact that they will make farmers richer and the rest of us healthier. In fact, you say, GM cropp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2007 #4 - The Reigning Rein
In the ever lasting battle for the minds of men and women, one of the key strategies employed by the ruling classes, should their interests be challenged, is to create a smokescreen to obscure the real issues that should be occupying the minds of those they are trying to win over. For last couple of weeks Therese Rein, the wife of wanna be PM, Kevin “I’m from Queensland” Rudd, has been leading news bulletins over a supposed breach of workplace rules by underpaying some of the workers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2007 #1 - Aquaman Meets Pell
I guess it depends which side of the debate you stand on but “I for one believe the comments by George Pell were repugnant and would be rejected by fair minded Australians”. If John Howard said that I guess, again, that a furore would have broken out but John remains silent.
George Pell and Perth Catholic Bishop Barry Hickey’s latest foray into politics are not really surprising and it must have been a slow news day in order for them to get such wide coverage.
They, like Tony Abbo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2007 #3 - ANZAC - For Whom?
For the last ten years I’ve been trying to work out why I have lost interest in the ANZAC day memorials. I attended my first when I was 15 and played in the Municipal band. We played at a Dawn Service and my dad, a WWII vet, took me down to the war memorial. It would be almost 20 years later that I spoke to him about his war time ‘adventures’ and found out what his experience had been.
It wasn’t until many years later that I started to discover the truth about the ANZAC legend and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2007 #2 - Jones, Race and Class Interests
In December 2005 a bunch of un-named and as yet unidentified people, orchestrated the closest thing we in Australia have come to in a full on race riot. The cowards that organised the riots in Cronulla had the full backing of our ruling classes. They found not only support but endorsement that we now find stretches all the way through the media to the top levels of government and Her Majesty's Opposition.
Last week Sydney radio personality, who could otherwise be called a "colourful Sydne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2007 #1 - Bombay Nights
Some years ago the company I was working for was awarded a contract to do some work in the Indian city of Bombay, now known as Mumbai. It was a great opportunity and became a life changing experience for me. As the project’s technical manager I had to go over early and while there I was chaperoned by our Indian client. We visited various subcontractors and talked technical stuff. We travelled about the city in taxi cabs that seemed to test the limits of physics and the ability for body a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2007 #5 - The Politics of Convenience and Liability
I was listening to the radio the other day when news came on about David Hicks’ appearance at the kangaroo court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I thought the best journalists in the country would be discussing the unjust court setting he was appearing in. Perhaps I set my expectations too high. Instead of descriptions of the conditions under which he was being tried being described it was like listening to the spring fashion show. Ninety five percent of the bulletins were about what he was wea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
