Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Published 20 November 2019 It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family’s work and the valuable work going on in the many organisations and charities that I am proud to support. Therefore, I […]
The difference between Australians and Indians. I am not being racist. It is just culturally how the majority of each of us are. If you bolted from a leopard attacking some poor bastard you’d be disinherited. In India you would be if you didn’t. That’s why we are 80 – 53 in test matches. We […]
SAFE NZ’s Will Appelbe says he’s spoken with “a number of people in the industry” who all fear the rapidly declining numbers are not an example of an industry bettering itself for the sake of its dogs, but one willing to do everything it can to save itself – even if that means harming them […]
Well it appears we made an innocent mistake yesterday when we (wrongly) described Brisbane’s second biggest bookie of the 2000’s Uncle Lindsay Gallagher – who tells us is a distant relation of Jill, the Order of Australia winner – as a member of the Taribelang Bunda people from Bundaberg. Uncle Lindsay has written in to […]
Uncle Lindsay at top, and his cousin Aunty Nhaya Nicky of the Taribelang people of Bundaberg below https://www.indigenous.gov.au/node/25/stories?page=0%2C1 I have written a great deal recently about Uncle Milty of the Minjerribah people. In these stories I have often referenced the elder wisdom imparted to Uncle Milty by his elder from the north Uncle Errol, white […]
With only a day to go until the end of the season, it appears certain that for the first time in memory the super-sire of the 21st century Bettors Delight will not make it into the top 20 US two-year-old sires by average earnings list. Bettors juvenile progeny this year have earned just $7 669 […]
Turaroi Tokoma, the slave without the shirt. My kids great-great grandfather. My wife’s great-grandfather – my children’s ancestor – was a slave, stolen from his island home in the waters between the Solomon Islands and PNG, and taken thousands of miles away to labour for white men without wages and at the threat of whipping […]
8000 black slaves just like my wife and children’s ancestor Tokoma disappeared in Queensland in just 10 years. They simply vanished, according to the historical records written by the white men who stole them. The truth is that they died of disease, or dropped dead from over-work, or in many cases were simply slaughtered. Their […]
On Boxing Day I listened to the President of the Rocky Amateurs Bill Reid on radio talking about the new slot race The Archer. Mr Reid is obviously aware of the issues that I have raised about the racist origins of the name of the new race, for one of the first things he said […]
