If 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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