There Was A Freedom To Be Had
There was there, even then, and all the voices rose at once, and all the peak experiences of millenia, and all the twisted fates, and all the lifetimes that passed before us, and all the romance that conjured from the ground, and all the things I said to you, and everything, everything, all of it, the circus in the surrounds, the hushed quiet, the saner voices, the thoughts that trailed like vapours through a blank blue sky, and all the compassion we never showed for each other, all of it, all of it, came crushing through a chrysalis to be born.
And so it was. 2021. All the savants. The palms on the path. The exultant crowds. Now here. Now there. Whispered through time. Across generations. We were moved by stories, moved across the water, we found ourselves in forests and in mountains, Hallelujah, and all the grimy circumstances and balcony windows and cheering or jeering crowds, all the divine right of kings and the hand that reached out to touch the finger of God in all those famous paintings, all the trails that led down to this century and to this time.
Yes, it had something to do with the evolution of technology.
What did we want to say to you?
Hold fast to that which is good.
There was freedom to be had, and giant swathes of joy, and as for the nation of his birth?
It was hard to believe the destruction wrought in such a short time.
His elderly parent was now safely in a nursing home, having buried or destroyed so much around her, and these deaths, on village floors and mud huts in acrid deserts, the time, the place, the circumstance, we could be as one with you, we came from so very far away, in every sense, they woke, they woke, they have awoken, and here, amid humans, who were not central to God, here in the flesh and blood and the walking on the planet surface, this most fecund, most beautiful, most fascinating of places, we strode, we walked, we slithered, we lived in the trees and on the surface, we rose in the air, we transformed the world, we came to you.
These points in history. Turning points in history.
And so it was with the nation.
A scandal wracked government which had destroyed the livelihood of millions and turned a once prosperous nation into a third world destination; how was it even possible that the people remained so quiet, that no one rose up, that blank stares enveloped any sign of revolution, that an obsequious response to outrageous circumstance would come slithering up your neck.
The assassins had failed. The nation was destroyed.
We lived in a fairy land; a false sense of normality.
It would not last.
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Rights for the likes of Christian Porter are ‘our fight too’: Peta Credlin
05/03/2021|7min
Whatever you think about the claim against Attorney-General Christian Porter, his right to presumption of innocence and a lawyer to defend his good name is “our fight too”, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin. “Labor Leader Anthony Albanese is loudly demanding a formal inquiry, even though there’s no evidence other than that considered by New South Wales Police and found to be insufficient,” Ms Credlin said. “The whole point of an inquiry in Labor’s eyes would be to force Porter to prove his innocence. “In other words, a witch-hunt designed to end the public life of one of the government’s strongest ministers by upending the presumption of evidence. But today it got worse.” Mr Porter, after being “subject to a concerted campaign” across some media outlets and online, engaged Peter Bartlett – who is one of Australia’s “foremost defamation law experts” and a partner at MinterEllison. “But in a move that’s frankly staggered me and so many others with a legal background, MinterEllison’s chief executive, Annette Kimmitt, took it upon herself – after hearing that Bartlett was acting for Porter - to email the firm’s two-and-a-half thousand staff apologising for the fact he was now a client of Minters,” Ms Credlin said. “I was so gobsmacked by these comments from Kimmitt and her legal ignorance, I went so far as to look her up on LinkedIn and surprise surprise … she doesn’t even have a law degree.” Ms Credlin said she senses a “growing call to action” from the hitherto quiet Australians who now see the “erosion of their rights like never before”. “This isn’t just a fight for the likes of Christian Porter.”
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Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has made a plea for an independent inquiry into rape allegations against Christian Porter, saying many people, including some Liberal MPs, want his “head on a plate”.
Porter, the attorney general, is on mental health leave this week and has strongly denied raping a woman when they were both teenagers in 1988.
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, is resisting calls from lawyers, women’s advocates, human rights groups, Labor and crossbench MPs for an independent inquiry, saying there was “no alternative process” available to him.
He has backed Porter’s decision to stay put as first law officer of the land.
“Christian Porter may not want an independent inquiry but he has got one by default,” Joyce wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. “A demeaning, cathartic inquisition by the press and opposition.”
An independent inquiry would offer a more “dignified” alternative otherwise the allegations could “hang like a fog” over Porter’s “remarkable career”, the New England MP said.
“Christian knows many in the opposition and some on his own side don’t want the truth unless it comes with his head on a plate. They just want his scalp.
“They will ultimately get what they want unless he can refer them to a deliberation on the allegation, beyond reasonable questions of efficacy.”
Joyce said he did not want Porter to “end up sitting at the back of the chamber under the exit sign where my colleagues have kindly placed me”.
