The PR Blog

 The following article was published in 1993. Over  30 years ago. 

Does the modern bureaucratization of medicine risk a return to the horrors of national socialist medicine?

Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans.

These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects.

The Weimar Republic was born out of the ashes of World War I, following Germany's defeat and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in November 1918. The new democratic government, named after the city of Weimar where its constitution was drafted, sought to replace the imperial system with a parliamentary democracy. 

However, the Republic faced enormous challenges from the outset. The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, placed heavy reparations on Germany and imposed severe territorial losses, fueling national resentment and economic hardship. These conditions created a fertile ground for political extremism, with both the far left and far right vying for control.

It struck me that we are, as countries, are suffering under the horrors of our version of a Versailles Treaty: one where we are prevented from developing our nations due the the restrictions forced upon us by signing up to the Climate Change nonsense.... 

Until people learn that the same propaganda they see in media, schools, and entertainment today - lying to them and subverting society -  they won't know who their true enemies are. 

And, the most important thing to remember is that it has been in effect for at least the last 80 years.

 In 1944 the Australian politician Arthur Calwell was unhappy that some newspapers were not following wartime censorship restrictions. 

Back then as the Minister for Information, he said 

All this vaunted freedom of the press on the part of newspaper magnates will not permit views to be published which they do not desire to be published. There is no such thing as freedom of the press, except for those who own and control the newspapers of Australia.

I have had a pretty colourful life one way or another. And it got me thinking. How would the Gazans and others feel if they lived up in the pointy end of Australia? Would they come? So here is my " Welcome to Country " ceremony for all those from other countries  who are thinking of making Australia home. 

But think twice before you head north for a true blue Aussie ceremony. You might bite off more than you bargained for. Or, someone or something might. 

Life out of Australian cities is not for people who cannot deal with the odd oversized lizard or two. It's almost more like " Welcome to the Jungle. " 

“Some of us may forget that, of all the Allies, it was the Australians who first broke the spell of invincibility of the Japanese Army.”
- Quote from Field Marshall Sir William Slim, Commander of WW2 Commonwealth forces in Burma (and later Governor General of Australia).

And that first fracture in the Japanese Land Forces strength came at Milne Bay in September 1942. Alongside Guadalcanal weeks later, Milne Bay marked the first land defeats of the Japanese, shifting the Pacific war’s momentum. 

The Emu War is one of Australia's most curious and bizarre historical events. It took place in late 1932, when a large number of emus, flightless birds native to Australia, caused significant damage to crops in Western Australia.

In response, the Australian government sent a small military force, led by Major G.P.W. Meredith of the Royal Australian Artillery, armed with two Lewis guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, to the region in November 1932. The plan was to cull the emus and reduce their numbers to protect the crops.

Curious? I am not surprised. Hell, if if the Australian Army couldn't despatch a few pesky birds then something was very wrong indeed.  So let me enlighten you and tell you all about the time that the Australian Army went to war against its coat of arms.... and lost.