Jon was born in London, schooled in Sussex and Wales, migrated to Sydney in 1988. Career in mental health, nursing, health care management and education. Currently retired but not brain dead. Occasional writer for the AIM Network, touch of critique and socio-political satire, creative writing and publishing poetry. Family man with grown up daughters and grandchildren. Interests ranging from humanities and social justice to climate change, protecting the planet from reckless destruction to a more than idle lifelong fascination in astronomy and palaeontology. Found sanctuary in the Blue Mountains, a place that reminds us we have a mortal responsibility to inspire in each other good stewardship – this place is our only home in the cosmos to hand on to our children’s children.
There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land (Euripides 480-406 BC – ‘Medea’) Mors nobis inimica est invidia lucem obscurat They spit, they scowl, they squeal and bite […]
Ed: This very popular article was first published by Jon on our old site March 1, 2024. It’s definitely one for the keeper. Like stardust and feathers exploding in perpetual flower with unending grace […]
On 15 March 1889, three American and three German warships, and HMS Calliope of the Royal Navy’s Australia Station protecting British interests, were tightly anchored in a standoff in the tiny harbour of Apia, Samoa, […]
Anthony Albanese responds to Trump camp ‘concern’ on Australia’s defence spend, defence correspondent Andrew Greene, ABC News, 6 March 2025 – Ah yes but… no news analysis from our trusted ABC. What yah saying, Albo, […]
Wolves among the flock Jewish Journalist Exposes Israel, Katie Halper, Double Down News yesterday – not the first, not the second or the last. Australian establishment seizes on backwards comments by nurses to escalate phoney […]
Another fudgestone kop prank from spudsville courtesy of Sky News king of muck rakers. An unletter to the Sydney Morning Herald, and thanks to GL for the thumbs up this morning, following on from ‘How […]
This is the dead land* this is cactus land here the stone images are raised, here they receive the supplication of a dead man’s hand under the twinkle of a fading star. […]
Where’s our news, where are the investigative journalists, where’s our ABC and who the fudgestone are YouGov? The ABC busted: our most trusted and public broadcaster drops the YouGov bombshell, except they hide the real […]