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Aug 18, 2022Liked by A Sense of Place Magazine

Thanks for this. Have been following the protests in Australia and across Europe wherever possible for several years. The writers too. There was quite a group on Twitter until the lie minders there caught up. Now we inhabit SubStack until they too get caught up in the dragnet. There is already a history building of these times. As during the times of the American and French Revolutions there are a diverse lot, a motley crew, of those engaged. Those involved almost never during these times of watershed moments know what they are actually accomplishing and certainly not the possible historical import. Trusting we will possess a future to inhabit.

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Thanks for your kind words. You seem like a very interesting person. And nice, too. Yes, the publishing technologies have changed everything, and I suppose like everything we're still in the infancy of it all. There's been some very mad times here in Australia the last two and a half years. The manipulation of public narrative has just been mind blowing. I worked as a journalist all my life; and I've been stunned by the behaviour of some of my former colleagues. Thanks for your interest. Regards.

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Thanks and thank you. Writers such as yourself allow me to explore those areas which seem relevant. This is not the first time I’ve been accused of being interesting, lol. Nice - not so often.

Those of us in America worried about America are also worried about Australia. Being immersed in such a planetary coup is very distressing. It requires us to think much bigger than nation states and to see the tenants of the American Revolution in the light with which many of these founding ancestors understood them. They are universal goals of humans and not so easily dismissed as national. To unalienable rights.

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