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Australia’s Iron Ore Industry - The Pioneering Relationship Between Henry Kaiser and Lang Hancock

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty

The birth of Australia’s iron ore industry wasn’t just an economic milestone - it was one of those great, classic “only in Australia” stories, full of big personalities, big landscapes, and a bit of luck.

At the centre of it all were two unlikely partners: Lang Hancock, the stubborn, sharp-eyed bush prospector from Western Australia, and Henry J. Kaiser, the American industrial dynamo who could build anything from ships to cities.

Their partnership in the early 1960s helped turn a forgotten patch of red dirt into one of the world’s powerhouse mining regions.

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Meet Lee Hanson: One Nation’s Secret Weapon

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The Quiet Hanson: Why Lee Sherrard Might Just Save One Nation (and Why She Might Not)

Everyone across the nation is bracing for the next explosion from the red-haired firecracker in the Senate. But the real story in the Hanson family isn’t Pauline right now.

It’s her daughter, the one who has spent the last twenty-five years saying “no” to politics, and who might - just might - be the only person capable of dragging One Nation out of the wilderness and into government.

Her name is Lee Sherrard (campaigning as Lee Hanson), and she is calm, corporate-polished, scandal-free, and, most importantly, a mum who still tucks her kids in most nights in Hobart.

At 41, Lee has already done what no amount of burka stunts, Sky News hits, or Ashby leaks ever could: she has made One Nation look… well, very mainstream and normal.

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" The Burka is Good Act " Plunges Dusty Gulch Into Darkness!

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Written by: Op-Ed Ratty News

Dusty Gulch Gazette – Emergency Midnight Edition

November 27, 2025 – Vol. 147, No. 320

Every Citizen Cloaked. Every Creature Covered. One Duck to Blame.
By Roderick (Whiskers) McNibble – Writing From Under 4 Layers of Cotton

Dusty Gulch, 11:59 p.m. – Darkness has fallen across our once-sunburnt town, and not the poetic kind. No, this is the literal, suffocating, fabric-flapping darkness mandated by Maurice E-Duck’s “Burka Is Good Act.”

At precisely 7:03 a.m., loudspeakers crackled to life, and the E-Duck’s voice echoed across the rooftops:

“ATTENTION! ALL CREATURES MUST BE FULLY CLOAKED. UNITY THROUGH UNIFORMITY! DARKNESS IS DIGNITY!”

By 7:04 a.m., Dusty Gulch was a nightmare of stumbling silhouettes.

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Raise a Glass, America - The World Is Counting on You

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty
From a disease-ravaged ship anchored off a windswept coast… to thirteen scrappy colonies telling the most powerful empire on earth to get stuffed… to a nation that has lit the torch of liberty for the entire world ever since. That’s the inheritance sitting around your Thanksgiving table tonight.

It was bought with blood, prayer, and raw courage... and it is not yours to surrender. Not to bureaucrats, not to globalists, not to useful idiots in suits who think they know better than you how to live your one, precious life. 

On behalf of every Australian, every British mate, every Canadian and European who still believes in freedom but no longer has it at home... I say thank you. Thank you for not giving up on the last, best hope of earth. Raise a glass with me tonight, will you?

To the Pilgrims. To the Sons of Liberty. To 1776. And to 2025...the year America came roaring back. Happy Thanksgiving, you bloody legends. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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The Prime of Miss Canberra Bureaucrat

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty

In Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a charismatic Edinburgh teacher enchants her chosen students with tales of art, love and - most dangerously - Mussolini’s marching columns. The novel is remembered for Brodie’s charm, but it is really a warning: what happens when authority decides what others must think.

That same temptation exists today, far from Edinburgh’s stone classrooms - inside the schools, agencies and programmes that claim to serve Australia’s remote communities.

Miss Jean Brodie believed she was shaping her girls for greatness; in truth, she was funneling them into her own ideology. Australia has its modern equivalents. No marching columns, no fascist posters - just well-funded agencies, city bureaucrats and consultants convinced they know what remote communities “should” think and how they “should” live.

History has shown where this path leads. Nazi and Soviet classrooms turned children into instruments of the state.

The ideology changes; the temptation to mould rather than mentor does not. Today the battleground is subtler – social-justice curricula, climate alarmism, identity politics - but the risk is the same: adults with power deciding what young minds must think before they have learned how to question. Just think of EKaren. 

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Elon Musk - Reaching for the Stars

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty

Elon Musk is more than a billionaire tech mogul...he’s a disruptor, a visionary, and a relentless force of ambition transforming industries from electric cars to space travel. With roots in South Africa and a path carved by relentless risk-taking, Musk has turned early entrepreneurial success into a mission to reshape humanity’s future. Through companies like Tesla and SpaceX, he’s redefining what’s possible on Earth and beyond, pushing boundaries while sparking controversy and inspiring a generation. Love him or loathe him, Musk’s impact is undeniable, and his legacy may just be in the stars.

Elon Musk is one of the most influential and polarising figures in technology, business, and popular culture today.

Born on 28th of June, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk’s journey from a tech-savvy child to a billionaire entrepreneur and innovator has reshaped industries ranging from electric vehicles to space travel. Known for his ambitious goals, unconventional approach, and often controversial public personna, Musk has become a household name, largely due to his work with companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

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It's Time to be Honest - Settlers and Migrants have Changed

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty

Yes, let’s be honest. The days when the Irish, Scots, Italians, Greeks, Poles, Hungarians, Poms, Kiwis and Chinese all packed up and headed down under or over yonder bear no resemblance to the current influx of migrants.

I’m a migrant myself, having come here in 1978 with nothing but a family, a couple of suitcases and a work ethic. I’m forever grateful to Australia and I’m still pro-immigration, but back then, we came to work and contribute, not to be looked after. That’s the difference that worries me now…

Society has changed, and societal expectations have shifted from what we brought and could do for Australia, to what we can do for migrants. And I do not think that is just. And it is certainly not fair. 

This, my friends, is a very big shift indeed.

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Prohibition didn’t make Teetotallers: it made Smugglers and Moonshiners

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty
Picture this: You’re sitting down for a family dinner, and instead of chatting about school, your 14-year-old is glued to their phone, perfecting a TikTok dance they swear will “blow up.” As they film their 87th take, you wonder....shouldn’t they be outside learning the joy of frisbee or inside suffering through algebra homework? Well, what if they couldn’t scroll endlessly at all? Enter the hot topic of banning social media for under-16s.

Times have changed and this is such a bad idea that even the most brain dead of brain dead could see that stifling something kids have accepted as part of modern living is the adult equivalent of the disastrous prohibition laws of the 1930's.

Prohibition didn’t make Americans teetotallers; it made them smugglers and moonshiners. This ban won’t make Aussie teens digital monks; it’ll make them digital delinquents with better tech skills than the regulators.
 
History copy-pasted the whole bloody stanza. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s prophecy.

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CROW SHOT, CLOUDS CRASH - GULCH FOLKS FALL BACK ON OLD WAYS

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Dusty Gulch Gazette
November 21, 2025 – Vol. 147, No. 312
By Jedediah "Dust" Harlan - Special Correspondent - American Bureau

HEADLINE: "CROW SHOT, CLOUDS CRASH - GULCH FOLKS FALL BACK ON OLD WAYS"

Rattlesnake-fast chaos, folks, and a crow that got more than it bargained for.

One scattergun blast, one tumbling rockslide, and suddenly the Gulch was cut off from every “digital dollar” and talkin’ box this side of the county line.

Starry sky above, dust in our teeth, and a whole heap of old-fashioned reckonin’ waiting to happen ....just like our grandpappies did when the banks went belly-up. Oh, and I think we might have grown up watching too many cartoons...

This is a parody written by two kids in America responding to the article published here yesterday about the Australian plan to censor the internet for under 16 year olds. Enjoy. 

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Bullet Pops Digital Duck Dream: Dusty Gulch Goes Back to Cash and Crows About it!

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Written by: Op-Ed Ratty News

 by Roderick (Whiskers) McNibble - Chief Correspondent for Ratty News - Aeronautical and Ornithological Division

DUNCAN’S BULLET POPS THE DIGITAL DUCK DREAM: One Bang, One PFFT, and Dusty Gulch Goes Back to Cash and Cold Beer!

It was a strange morning. The kind where even the crows paused mid-caw and the red dust seemed to shiver. Two weeks had passed since a ghostly cloud -  ripped straight from the pages of Stephen King’s latest nightmare -  had descended over Dusty Gulch, hanging low and twitching like it had secrets it really didn’t want to share.

One particular crow, Clive, had hovered over town nonstop since the ECloud’s arrival. His relentless caw-caw-cawing had driven one resident past the brink. Duncan “Crow-B-Gone” Thompson had reached breaking point.

And life was about to become very, very interesting for the residents of Dusty Gulch… all because of what happened 14 days earlier.

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Tynwald, the Isle of Man - The Hill That Refused to Go Indoors

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Written by: Op-Ed Monty

A green hill in the Irish Sea has stood for 1,045 years. It has seen plagues, wars, invasions, kings, and empires. It has survived every human folly.

It is called Tynwald Hill, and it is the world’s oldest continuous parliament.

Once, it was simple: laws read aloud in the open air, petitions handed in by anyone who cared to show up, and every free person on the island hearing and judging in the same wind.

A parliament of the people, by the people, under the sky.

From Grassroots to Clicks

In 979 AD, the Manx gathered on a four-tier mound built from the soil of every parish. Every free man and woman heard the laws.

They listened. They judged. They held leaders accountable with their voices alone.

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