The costly myths behind the Grand Prix – a guest appearance
Peter Logan, president and spokesperson for Save Albert Park Inc., responds to Liberal Shadow Minister for the Environment Nick McGowan’s recent comments in TWiSK, the local City of Port Phillip paper, on Albert Park
The article – “LIBS ALARMED BY YEARS OF NEGLECT” (TWISK 26 June)- by Liberal Shadow Minister for the Environment, Nick McGowan, regarding Albert Park needs addressing.
A friend, Peter Thomas, who served in Vietnam at the same time as the blog, decided to ask his AI friend what it thought about the Frontier Wars. After some input from him he got the following answer. On checking AI got one or two things wrong, but the exercise is interesting, nevertheless.
The most significant result is that, if you rely on official Australian history sources, there is a strong argument that many of the conflicts between British settlers (and colonial authorities) and Aboriginal peoples meet accepted historical definitions of war, even though they were not formally declared wars by governments at the time.
This post was published, with the author’s permission, on the Defending Country Memorial website.
It links to Ray Kerkhove, ‘Alice Duncan-Kemp’s “Warrior Lodges” and Kooroongoora: structures of resistance during Australia’s Frontier Wars’, Oceania, Volume 95, Issue 1, March 2025, pp. 71-93, March 2025. First published online 16 April 2025, an open access version facilitated by University of Southern Queensland, as part of the Wiley-University of Southern Queensland agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
It was inevitable – it had to happen and the only question was when.
Today markets are moving into a major correction – a development predicted by Fitch ratings a few days ago – when Fitch warned that an AI-related correction had become a “major global credit risk’ due to the scale of AI investment, elevated tech valuations and the impact of AI on global markets.
History is not static. Our view of it changes as new evidence comes to light.
The Australian Wars and Resistance (AWAR) website is a growing resource of evidence on the Australian (Frontier) Wars. It reflects the remark of David Marr in Killing for Country (2023), ‘Australia was fought for in an endless war of little, cruel battles’ (page 131).
It is extremely unlikely that Donald Trump has even the slightest knowledge about history.
But if he did, he might realise that the problems he is experiencing with the Strait of Hormuz are very similar to those experienced by other countries in the past 500 or so odd years.
In 1507 the Portuguese viceroy of India, Alfonso de Albuquerque, tried to blockade the Persian Gulf by subduing the Kingdom of Hormuz. According to John Aspinwall, writing in History Today (July 2026), The campaign was a failure.
While various religious groups are entrenched in wars – US Christian Nationalists, Muslims, Israelis – it is worth looking at another sort of religious battle – the one designed to prevent the forthcoming Census from accurately reflecting the status of religion in Australian life.
The August 11 Census will ask questions about religion.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has fallen into that common political failing – exemplified by Tricky Dicky Nixon – when the cover up becomes a bigger problem than the event itself.
The Rationalist Society of Australia’s Si Gladman has revealed that the ABS blocked a damning statement about the controversial ABS Census religion question.
Donnald Trump recently took to Truth Social to claim his “REAL POLL NUMBERS” are “THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN” but failed to cite any actual survey to support his claim.
The reality is rather different. According to G. Elliott Morris’ latest analyses he is even deeper underwater.
53% of Americans see grounds to impeach Trump and respondents most name corruption and abuse of power as his main offences.
It is arguable that the US has never been a democracy in the normal sense of the word.
From slavery to restrictions on voting people have been disenfranchised – often by violence.
Donald Trump is working hard to keep it that way.
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