Dancers at the constitutional convention near Uluru last year. Prof Megan Davis says constitutional recognition should be a priority in the Coalition’s ‘refresh’ of Closing the Gap targets.

Australia: Most Targets to Reduce “Indigenous Disadvantage” Not on Track! (31.7.2025)

It said that progress has gone backwards on another four targets relating to Indigenous imprisonment and suicide rates, childhood development and the number of Indigenous children in out-of-home care.

“It is very concerning that we are still seeing outcomes worsening for incarceration rates, children in out-of-home care and suicide,” Malarndirri McCarthy, the federal minister for Indigenous Australians, said in a statement.

The report found that the age-standardized suicide rate of Indigenous Australians increased from 23.6 per 100,000 people in 2018 to 30.8 per 100,000 people in 2023. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the suicide rate for the entire Australian population in 2023 was 11.8 per 100,000 people.

Old Billy - What a Great Horse!

UK: Remembering “Old Billy” [1760-1822] with Love and Respect! (21.7.2024)

The taxidermied head was acquired by Bedford Museum, while Old Billy’s skull went to Manchester Museum, where it has been displayed below a neon sign bearing the horse’s name.

Such has been Old Billy’s enduring appeal that a children’s book telling the horse’s story was published in 2023 and Ms Reid said it was hoped the return of the head would inspire other work.

“There’s something about Old Billy which has really captured our imaginations,” she said.

“We loved the beautiful children’s picture book about him which was recently created by two artists from the town [and] now there’s music and artwork being made about Old Billy and we’ll be hosting workshops and talks.”

Old Billy is at Warrington Museum’s Cabinet of Curiosities between 19 July and 20 November and is free to view.

The Great Gypsy King!

Saluting the Gypsy King & Exposing the Far-Right Commentary Aimed at Tyson Fury! (19.5.2024)

The irony? Well, Uysk’s ancestors – as Nazi collaborators – assisted the Germans in their rounding up and mass murdering of the Romany (“Gypsies”) tribes that had flourished in the USSR under Soviet Socialism (the Red Army had Regiments of Gypsies). Tyson Fury – and his family – are “Gypsies” – and there has been no end of anti-Romany aggression from the Uysk Camp which the British media refused to report as such. Just as it refused to recognise Tyson Fury as “British” last night – or Uysk as a Nazi. Regardless of the evil that currently stalks this land – Tyson Fury won the fight. 

The Stupidity of Marjorie Greene Taylor – Walking on the Wild Side! (6.4.2023)

Trump is a fascist and a Neo-Nazi – as he does not discriminate between each variant of the same ‘White’ ideology. What is interesting is how Trump (and Majorie Greene Taylor) both support Russia in its conflict with Neo-Nazi Ukraine! Why is this? Whereas Marjorie Greene Taylor’s Wikipedia page reads like Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ – right in the middle of this utter stupidity all of a sudden clear thinking occurs regarding Russia! Surely, this is an example of true facts hidden in plain sight! Her racist views regarding ‘China’ and the ‘Communist Party’ are juxtaposed with her Islamophobic attitudes whilst wedged in the middle is an exact and precise analysis of the Russian situation but minus one vital fact – namely that the ‘Black’ President Obama overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 – and instigated a vicious Neo-Nazi alternative! This was intended to move NATO through Ukraine and onto the geographical borders of Russia! Of course, ethnic Russian people in the Crimea voted by 97% to secede from the Ukraine and rejoin Russia – and armed uprisings occured in the Donbass area of East Ukraine (a small geographical area of sovereign Ukraine) out of protest to this US policy.

China Debuts Full Solar-Powered Drone! (5.8.2022)

Near space is that part of Earth’s atmosphere at altitudes of 20 to 100 kilometers, encompassing portions of the stratosphere, mesosphere and lower thermosphere. It is above the top altitudes of commercial airliners but below orbiting satellites.

The drone is able to fly at altitudes of up to over 20 km and can stay airborne overnight. The solar panels are placed on the wings that have a combined length of 50 meters, said Zhu Shengli, head designer of Qimingxing 50.

The Use of the Cavalry Lance (‘Pike’) and the Red Army (1924) 

In general, the combination of today’s ‘unusual’ cavalry soldier with this type of horse is very far, unfortunately, from the image that is desirable or associated with a ‘traditional’ cavalryman. Meanwhile, a ‘pike’ (or ‘lance’) is good only in the hands of an excellent rider, sitting on an excellent and well-trodden horse! History sufficiently proves (through a number of examples) that in the absence of these two vital attributes – the pike is only a burden that rushes into battle without finding any effective use for itself!