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The ‘friends to all, enemies to none’ strategy is living its last days as the US and China press the island nations to take sides.

Papua New Guinea is a gateway between continents. The island, having been cut in half, demarcates an artificial boundary between Asia and Oceania. In the past several centuries, the broader island has been carved upon between almost every colonial power going, having been ruled at various points by the Dutch Empire, the Spanish Empire, the German Empire, the Empire of Japan, and the British Empire. Even after gaining its formal independence in 1975 from Australia, these legacies continue to scar the island, with half of it still belonging to Indonesia, known as West Papua, which is now a source of unrest and insurgency.

Once upon a time, in a land not too dissimilar from our own, there lived a young woman named Dorothy. She resided in a small town where common sense prevailed and people relied on reason and logic to navigate their lives. But little did this young girl know that a great storm was brewing on the horizon, ready to sweep her away into a world where sanity was a scarce commodity.

One fateful day, a tornado of absurdity descended upon her quiet town, ripping apart the very fabric of reality. Caught in the whirlwind, she found herself and her trusted dog Toto transported to a place known as the Land of Lunacy. The sky was a shade of perpetual confusion, and the ground was paved with illogical arguments and senseless ideas.

With the latest debacle over the cancellation of hosting the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, I find myself looking back to when we could do it and do it right. 

The Olympic Games were held in Melbourne between 22nd November and 8^th December, 1956. The first time they had ever been held in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia’s sporting prowess was well known world-wide through the triumphs of out tennis players and cricketers but when it came to Olympic sports we were virtually unknown despite our success in all Olympiads since the inception of the modern era. The simple fact was that generally speaking Olympic sports were not huge spectator sports in Australia so the world wondered what this little nation of 9 million people and 170 million sheep at the bottom of the world was thinking about when it had the audacity to apply to stage the Olympic Games.

I went down to Redhead's place yesterday morning. She was pretty angry because water was leaking from her bathroom shower into her toilet. No doubt a tap had a dodgy washer or there was a pipe that needed attention. 

She had a plumber due to see if he can sort it out. 

I was driving home and my mind went back over 37 years to a time when I found out what was causing a leak in bathrooms and how a plumber solved the problem.

A good bloke. Who could be used as a metaphor for today's problems. 

Throughout history, assassins would use poison to try and rid themselves of their target. The person in power was vulnerable to attack and one of the easiest ways of ridding their adversary ( their political opponent )  was to poison them. These days, I worry about who our current leaders' opponents really are. 

As one poster said,  "The Voice is just part of a global plot to make everyone subservient to unelected global overlords."

And so it was with the Covid Scare. So it is with virtually everything these days. When coercion is used to force people to do something that they would rather not, we have become nothing more than official food testers for our rulers to safeguard themselves while exposing us to danger. 

It seems to me that our leaders are just as much under the thumb as we are - and it is this " man in the shadows " who we should be very worried about. 

So let's meander down through history and look at the way it worked and is still working.