CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

In my previous programme I said that there wasn’t a genocide and there wasn’t any Stolen Generations. In the way of the world today you might be thinking I’m a racist but you won’t once you understand how this whole Stolen Generations thing works. I’m not just making this up. I have all of the judges of the highest courts in the land who have heard cases where the plaintiffs claim to be members of the Stolen Generations, agree with me. The only cases that have gone to court to prove that the individual litigants were victims of genocide, members of the Stolen Generations, have failed. There’s been one High Court Case, a Federal Court case, and the unsuccessful litigants in that case appealed from the decision to the Full Federal Court and failed in their appeal. In all of the cases the judges found that there was no genocide. In 1997, the Bring Them Home Report, by Sir Ronald Wilson, a former judge of the High Court of Australia, and Mick Dodson, an Aboriginal activist, and a barrister, found that there was a nationwide policy of genocide and consequently there were Aboriginals who were members of Stolen Generations. Those findings were substantially based on hearing only witnesses who argued that either they were members of the Stolen Generations, left wing academics who supported the view that there were Stolen Generations or people who supported that view. Effectively no witnesses were called of people who held positions as ministers or senior or junior public servants, working in the areas which were claimed to be conducting the genocide – the people who were said to be carrying out the genocide. But significantly, just few years after the Bring Them Home Report had been delivered, Sir Ronald Wilson came out publicly and said … well I’ll get to what he said in the next programme. The most vital part of the Stolen Generations report is findings that there was actual genocide. If there was no genocide, what does that mean? As it stands at this point in my programme, the only people who had to make a determination on whether there was, or was not, Stolen Generations, are the two commissioners who delivered the Bring Them Home Report – Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson. But … well that big but is for the next programme. The only contested court case that has loosely been described as having as the plaintiff a victim of the Stolen Generations, that has succeeded, was a case brought by an unfortunate man by the name of Bruce Trevorrow. The facts of his case were appalling, but what ... Genocide is the vital ingredient in the Stolen Generations. If it’s not there … well I’ll talk about that in later programmes. Let’s first look at an interesting exchange of letters between Sir Ronald Wilson, one of the joint chair of that Commission, someone you could accept as being an experienced judge, on the High Court of Australia no less, who made the finding that there was genocide. So I need to introduce you to Nicholas Hasluck because he plays an important part in the story of the Stolen Generations, which the media isn’t telling us about, but he did in his book Bench and Book – Diaries, Letters, Memories published in 2021. Tag words: Stolen Generations; racist; High Court of Australia; Federal Court; Full Federal Court; Bring Them Home Report; Sir Ronald Wilson; Mick Dodson; Aboriginal activist; Bruce Trevorrow; Nicholas Hasluck; Bench and Book – Diaries, Letters, Memories; Sir Paul Hasluck; Minister for Territories; Sir Robert Menzies; Nazi holocaust; World War II; Shades of Darkness – Aboriginal Affairs 1925-1965; Geoffrey Blainey; Western Australian Equal Opportunity Tribunal; Chair of the Literature Board of Australia; National Press Club; Gough Whitlam; Hitler; Goering; Goebbels; The Sydney Morning Herald; The Fate of Reformers; Cecil Cook; the Protector for the Territory; Mr Bleakley; Mr Neville; national conference 1937; assimilation policies; biological absorption; White Australia policy; Bob Ellis; Eugene Bykhovsky; Colin Tatz;

In my last programme I told you that in 1980 Peter Read wrote a pamphlet revealing that Australia had committed a genocide every bit as bad as the Nazi holocaust of the Jews – that is now widely discussed in papers by academic genocide professionals. Peter’s wife told him to call them The Stolen Generations, and not the Lost Generations, as he was originally going to call them in his pamphlet and so he made the change. The Stolen Generations story is about the forcible removal of children from their parents by government authorities to breed out the black, as one of the people involved with the policy, called it. The aim was that eventually the Aboriginal race, as a distinctive race in this country, would be extinct. This crime against humanity is said to have happened from 1910 through to 1970, or even 1980. Mick Dodson, one of the commissioners who brought us the Bringing Them Home Report said that the policy caught 1 in 3 Aboriginal children who were forcibly taken from their families, and every single Aboriginal family, without exception, were affected and traumatised by this. He said 100,000 children were forcibly removed. I wanted to go back and look at the records of the leading Aboriginal activists from those times to show the story of their struggle against this genocide. I started that in the last programme. Three of the top people, Aboriginal activists during this time, that I looked at were Bill Ferguson, Walter Page and Pearl Gibbs. They were especially active from the 1930’s through to the 1950s. Nothing could have happened except for the smallest, most inconsequential things, to the Aboriginal community without them knowing about it, and intervening to deal with it – or at least give it a good shot. Surprisingly, I mean really really surprisingly, they didn’t mention anything about the Stolen Generations during their lives. Undeterred, today I’m going to look at what the next generation of Aboriginal activists did about this crisis in the 1970s and 1980s to stop this shocking holocaust. Tag words: Nazis; holocaust; Jews; Peter Read; Stolen Generations; Bringing Them Home Report; Mick Dodson; Aboriginal activists; Bill Ferguson; Walter Page; Pearl Gibbs; Gary Foley; Monica Tam; The Guardian; Richard Bell; Paul Coe; Malcolm X; Huey P. Newton; Bobby Seale; Black Panther Party; Billy McMahon; Aboriginal Embassy; Tent Embassy; Redfern Aboriginal Legal Aid service; Aboriginal genocide; Nazi Death Camps; Wave Hill cattle station; Vestey Company; High Court of Australia; First Fleet; British Empire; Mabo decision; Gough Whitlam; Denis Walker; Kath Walker; Australian Black Panther Party; Robert Corowa; Policy Manifesto of the National Tribal Council; the Platform and Program of the Black Panthers of Australia; 1972 Five-Point Policy of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy; Joseph Stalin; Kulaks; Soviet gulags; Communist China; Great Leap Forward famine; Cultural Revolution; Sir Ronald Wilson;

This was probably the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard. It made me feel ashamed to be an Australian. The words are spoken here by Sir Ronald Wilson, he was the Chair of the Bringing Them Home Report issued by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in April 1997, giving its findings into what were called and are known by everyone in this country, if not the world, as the Stolen Generations. The spoken words that I’m about to play you aren’t exactly the words that appeared at page 37 of that Report, but they’re pretty close and they’re what the focal point of the findings delivered by him and Mick Dodson, the social justice commissioner, the co-author of that report, wrote in their findings. Just to repeat, the findings of the Bringing Them Home Report was that at least 1 in 10 Indigenous children, but possibly as high as 1 in 3 were actually forcibly removed from their families. And according to Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson, there is probably not one Aboriginal family in Australia today that has not been scarred by that forced separation policy. Wow! The government activities, of forcibly removing children from their Indigenous family, that are the subject of the report that covers the period from about 1910 through even to the government of Gough Whitlam between 1972 and 1975, and maybe even up to 1980. So this was happening definitely for 60 years, possibly up to 70 years. I was born in 1950 so I lived through between 22 to 30 of those years. And when I heard that, it was news to me. I’d never heard about it before this. At the time these things were happening I was going to Sydney university, so I was exposed to the sorts of left wing radical ideas that thrive in those places. And still I never heard anything about this. Then I started my first job as a solicitor. It's such an important story that I really feel the need to cover it in some depth because, frankly it has destroyed Australia’s reputation internationally ever since the report was released. Australia’s known as a country where a major genocide happened, and the world views what happened in this country as being every bit as bad as what the Nazi did to the Jews in their extermination camps in Europe between 1941 and 1945. We, I mean everyone who isn’t Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or has a mixture of that blood, seems to be having to say sorry to those people every chance we get for what the white people who were running our country at that time were getting up to. And so we should .... It was in 1990 that Archie Roach,  made his first recording of a song. .... Then in 2020, Archie Roach released an album, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the release of Took the Children Away. He also brought out, available through our ABC, The Archie Roach Stolen Generation Educational Resources  .... Later that song came to the consciousness of Adam Briggs. He was only 4 years old when the song was released – too young for it to mean anything to him then. But it really hit him when he grew into adulthood. What really struck a chord with him, when he was old enough, were these words in the song: This story’s right, this story’s true, I would not tell lies to you. So let’s just dive in and see what the story of the Stolen Generations is all about. Tag words: Lost Generations; Stolen Generations; Sir Ronald Wilson; Bringing Them Home Report; William Ferguson; Walter Page; Pearl Gibbs; Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Mick Dodson; Gough Whitlam; Archie Roach; Took the Children Away; Paul Kelly; The Archie Roach Stolen Generation Educational Resources; Adam Briggs; Professor Peter Read; Jay Arthur; Andrew Fleming; Coral Oomera Edwards; Link-Up; National Aboriginal Consultative Council; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; AITSIS; Aboriginal Progressive Association; National Day of Mourning; Australia Day; Aborigines Welfare Board; Protectors of Aborigines; Indigenous Australia website;

In World War 2 the biggest factory ever was built by Ford to make the Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber. The smart guys until then had had many different factories make parts for this large type of bomber, and then shipped the manufactured parts to a factory that assembled them all into a plane. That wasn’t good enough for “Cast Iron Charlie”, Charles Sorensen, the Ford production chief. He knew he could build these aircraft at one plant on a production line. This was a frankly unbelievable call. The Liberator had 450,000 parts, weighed 16,330kg. Was 21 metres long. Needed 360,000 rivets in 550 different sizes. Ford built a factory just to make these planes at “Willows Run”. The factory was 915 metres long and 390 metres wide at its widest point. The factory’s internal area was 0.33 hectares. It’s floor area was bigger than the combined floor area of the Empire State building. It took 6 months to build the plant (it was finished just three days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour). By 1944 it was turning out a completed B-24 Liberator bomber every 24 hours just like “Cast Iron Charlie’ had promised. But that’s not what today’s CYKIAE programme is about – it’s about the most complex factory on the planet – that makes this one look tiny. Tag words: DNA; Enzymes; Richard Feynman; Stephen Hawkings; Robert Hooke; Copernicus; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek; Delft; Jan Vermeer; Old Testament; God; Charles Darwin; World War 2; Ford; Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber; Cast Iron Charlie; Charles Sorensen; Willows Run; Pearl Harbour; Rouge River Factory; Bill Bryson; A Short History of Nearly Everything; Royal Society; Christopher Wren; Richard Dawkins; The Greatest Show on Earth; Geraint Lewis; Luke Barnes; A Fortunate Universe; Cornell University;

I think I have no fear of being corrected when I say that Holland is THE most outstandingly progressive city in the world for homosexuals. The Amsterdam tourist industry website has all of this to say: “Amsterdam's reputation as one of the most gay-friendly cities in Europe is well earned.  Relatively liberal attitudes in the first half of the 20th century led to the establishment of the first Dutch gay magazines, Levensrecht and Wij. Real progress was made from the 1970s on, leading to the formation of many LGBT groups and the release of the Gay Krant magazine. The Netherlands became the first country in the world to recognise same-sex marriage in 2001, and Amsterdam’s then-mayor Job Cohen performed ceremonies almost immediately. For any visitor looking for up-to-the-minute information on the Amsterdam gay scene, the Pink Point found close to the Anne Frank House at Westerkerk provides an excellent overview. The friendly folks behind the counter at this gay tourist information stand are always willing to help with maps, club night listings and insider advice. One of the most popular annual events in the city continues to be the Amsterdam gay pride celebrations. When July turns to August every year, Amsterdam comes alive with street parties, club nights and the world-famous canal parade. Festival events are organised throughout the weekend, including the always-excellent Drag Queen Olympics in which contestants compete in games such as the handbag toss and the 100-meter high heel sprint.  The first gay bars in Amsterdam were founded in the 1920s, and the scene has gone from strength to strength since then. Today there are well over 100 Amsterdam gay bars, with many more LGBT friendly venues throughout the city. Look for the rainbow flag to easily spot gay venues. There are of course plenty of excellent gay clubs to visit too, and a nice selection of gay hotels for those looking for the complete Amsterdam gay experience. Again I don’t think I have any fear of being told that I’m wrong, when I say that nowhere in Australia or the rest of the world, can compare with the level of acceptance of homosexuality that is to be found in the Netherlands – especially Amsterdam. So the outcome must be outstanding for the homosexual community living there. With all of this going for them the issues of mental health, depression, anxiety, mood disorders and suicide, that plague homosexual communities in other, far less tolerant societies, must be, if not non-existent, considerably lower, maybe close to just non-existent. Not surprisingly, a study of these issues has been made of the male homosexual community in the Netherlands, compared to the heterosexual male community elswhere, and I thought I should share its findings so we can find out what we can find out. The study that I’m referring to for this programme was conducted by Sanjay Aggarwal and Rene Gerrets of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands in September 2013. Their study was called “Exploring the Dutch Paradox”. But the results were way different to anything that I was expecting. My expectations weren’t even close to what the study found. What it found was so important, and given how much time is devoted all through the Western world to issues on the homosexual community I felt that it was worthwhile for me to do a programme on this. Tag words: Gay; LGBTIQ+; homosexuals; Amseterdam; gay bars; gay clubs; Sanjay Aggarwal; Rene Gerrets; Department of Sociology and Anthropology; University of Amsterdam; Exploring the Dutch Paradox; Ilan H Meyer; Columbia University; City University of New York; acts of discrimination; stigma; internalised homophobia; suicidal self-harm; Adolescence and being normal; gewoon; Amsterdam Gay Pride Canal Parade; Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; Swinging 60s; heterosexual couples; Same sex marriage; Levensrecht; Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck;

On 10 April 1912 the magnificent, largest luxury liner in the world, the White Star Line’s unsinkable Titanic, left Southampton harbour to begin its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean – and to fulfil its tragic destiny. The inability of any of the latest technologies carried on board this state of the art ship, to give warning to the danger that lurked out of sight, under the water, was one of the things that led to the development of the new technology. The new technology would use sound under the water to let the command on a ship to know what dangers lurked there. As we always seem to find out, nature already had this covered – and far better than we’ve been able to do so far. For the whole of their existence, the dolphin had been using the technique that the scientists were to discover and copy – or had they. Perhaps Charles Darwin had light to shed on how this adaption had happened. Tag words: White Star Line; Titanic; Atlantic Ocean; echolocation; Dennis Venema; American Scientific Affiliation; Fellow of Biology for the BioLogos Foundation; Scot McKnight; Adam and the Genome; Charles Darwin; Theory of Evolution; prestin; Amino acids; DNA; Bats; whales; dolphins; sonar; Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee; ASDIC; F.V. Ted Hunt; Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory; Sounding Navigation and Ranging; Sonar; Stephen Hawkings; melon; Tim Leighton; Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics at Southampton University; David Attenborough; Blue Planet; Thermals; Mulloka Project; Royal Australian Navy; HMAS Yarra; On the Origin of Species; On the Origin of Species; Chapter IV Character of Natural Selection; Divergence of Character; ASA Acoustical Society of America; Peter Teglberg Madsen; Aarhus University; Denmark; Science Daily; Dr Joe Parker; Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences;

In this CYKIAE programme I’m taking you to Hawaii with me. We’re leaving from Alaska and heading south before the winter hits. Everyone that can, clears out from Alaska for the winter – sun-seekers. I’ve even bought a ticket for you. It’s a budget ticket – but if you’re like me you’re prepared to rough it a bit for the saving. The reason why this ticket was sold at a budget price is because the airline has only loaded the plane with enough fuel to get 80% of the way to Hawaii. The whole trip is over water. No land. I guess you have to make your own arrangements to go that last little distance – 800 kilometres. A bracing swim I guess – or maybe I’ll surprise you and tell you how you can avoid that. Tag words: Golden Plover; Charles Darwin; Theory of Evolution; HMS Beagle; Alfred Russell Wallace; Stephen Hawking; Chapter six “Difficulties of the Theory; Modes of Transition; Chico Marx; Groucho Marx; A Night at the Opera; John Alcock; Vickers Vimy heavy bomber; County Galway; Montana State University; Brigham Young University; British Antarctic Survey; NASCAR Daytona 500; Robert Glenn Johnson Jr; Ray Fox; Pontiac; Bobby Allison; V formation; Francisco Ayala; DNA; Molecular biology;

Maybe I’m going too far to say that the giraffe is the most beautiful, graceful and extraordinary animal in the world. Our name for this animal that we know as the giraffe comes from the Arabic word “zerafa” which means charming or lovely one. But listening to all of the facts about the incredible facts about the giraffe’s body – I’d have to agree with myself that it is the most beautiful, graceful and extraordinary animal. You may not agree but before you make a decision listen to this programme. Tag words: theory of evolution; giraffes; zerafa; giraffe’s tongue; giraffe’s heart; giraffe’s neck; Richard Dawkins; The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution; lung capacity; blood pressure; Charles Darwin; The Origin of the Species; St George Mivart; scientific theory;

Gender theory? What is it? Well one of the best books that cover the dark place that gender theory came from is the book written by one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Igor Shafarevich. He lived through the horrors of Stalinist Russia. He published his insightful study into the evils of socialism in a book called The Socialist Phenomenon. He described socialism as a death cult. It’s goals are being carried out, in part, today in the form of modern gender theory. It masquerades as science, like scientific socialism which Shafarevich dismissed saying: We cannot recognize “scientific socialism” as a genuinely scientific theory. One of the goals of socialism is the abolition of the family. Because the family is the most important building block of society. The barrier against the utter collapse of civilisation. So let’s resume my interview with Patricia Weerakoon, sex therapist, and author of what is a vital book for families to protect them against the predators that even our governments and teachers are unleashing on the most innocent part of our community – her book is called You & Me.  It seems you have to get your children properly educated about who to trust in the world before they’re corrupted, possibly irretrievably. It’s a shockingly vital race to save your child from the evil doers who are now being given free rein to corrupt them. Jordan Peterson in his book, 12 Rules for Life says that the window of opportunity for parents is up to the age of 4. So there’s no time to waste. Tag words: sin; socialism; Igor Shafarevich; gender theory; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; feelings; God; rejection of God; The Socialist Phenomenon; You & Me; prayer; biological sex; children; stereotypes; gender non-conforming behaviour; trans-child; girl brain; boy brain; watchful rating; gender exploratory therapy; live in their skin; puberty blocking drugs; life time medicalisation; sterilisation; surgery; hormones; biology cannot be changed; atheists; agnostics; Ken Zucker; Ray Blanchard; Professor John Whitehall; Colleen Wright; Dr Diane Ehransaft; Is Three Too Young for Children to Know They’re a Different Gender? Transgender Researchers Disagree; USCSF; University of California San Francisco; Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic; University of Western Sydney; Katherine Stock; Andrew Doyle; Helen Joyce; queer theory; oppressive; child led management; child centred management; bigot; Dennis Prager; Louise Perry; Sexual Revolution; science;

In my last programme I spoke with Patricia Weerakoon, a sex therapist on some issues of sex and gender – the issues that some people have made amazingly confusing to many people to do.  The first vow under the Hippocratic Oath is to do no harm. That doesn’t seem to matter to some people today. So let’s dive right in with Patricia to continue – and there’s no better place to start than to find out from her what gender is – because some people have created massive confusion over that word and what it means, and many of our young people are setting themselves up for a life of unhappiness, mental illness, depression and despair listening to them, and to many people, who hold respected positions in our society and who are believed because of that, when older and wiser heads know that they can’t be believed. Tag words: gender; gender expression; behaviour; children, short attention span; You & Me; Psalm 139; Luke 17:1-3; genitals; penis; scrotum; vulva; vagina; stereotypes;