Thoughts from a Bulldozer Driver

 I won’t be signing Kevin Rudd’s Petition. Several weeks ago, a friend tagged me into a Facebook post where former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was “..officially launching an official petition to the Australian Parliament, calling on the Parliament to establish a royal commission into the abuse of media monopoly in Australia, in particular by the Murdoch media, and to make recommendations to maximise media diversity ownership”... Sounds very official, doesn’t it. This friend that tagged me in the post is not only a Facebook friend, but also someone I consider to be an actual friend. But I won’t be signing the petition.  Forget my contempt for Mr Rudd. His pathetic search for relevance, ten years after his own party sacked him, and several years after the Australian voting public resoundly sacked him a second time, is the least of my worries.  In Mr Rudd’s video, Mr Rudd declares that the Murdoch Media has a “Monopoly” in the print media, and Mr Rudd wants to “maximise divers...

  Welcome to my humble little blog. A wise man once said that the best way to clarify your own thoughts is to write them down. Back in late 2020 I started to do just that. I found it to be absolutely true that the more I wrote about a particular thought, the more I explored it, the more I learned, and the clearer my position became. For just a few short months, my writing was published in our small-town community newsletter, published monthly and circulated free to local residents. However, a couple of the noisy minority took exception to my ramblings, and my days of being published in print were over. This was despite me inviting dissenters to engage in discussion and debate. For that is how you  really  learn things! Over the following few weeks, several people approached me and encouraged me to continue writing, saying that they enjoyed reading my thoughts and that they supported what I was saying. So I resolved to continue writing and publish to a blog. Here it is. I'...