Articles by Bert Hetebry

China seems to be a threat to world peace if we look at the geopolitics being played to in the Pacific region. There are two […]

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose, Nothin’ don’t mean nothin’, if it ain’t free. If feelin’ good was easy lord, when he […]

Politically the world seems to be moving very much to the right, and with it there is an attack on thinking, especially critical thinking where […]

Election fever is hitting Queensland, and Law and Order is high on the agenda. And the problems Indigenous kids present are front and centre. And […]

It is often quite a surprise when I open my Messages file in the morning: I get strange quotations and links to some angry podcasts […]

The original story set in Russian Ukraine of the play and film Fiddler on the Roof is more than about a poor Jewish man, Tevye, […]

I recall a time when an apology to our First Nations people was raised, I think it was during the first Howard government years. My […]

The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the scene for the next chapter in one of the most disgusting cases of inequality imaginable in an […]

The Grateful Dead had some interesting songs, some weird, others profound. Some like ‘A friend of the devil is a friend of mine’, a wonderful […]

“Why is the world so unfair? Why all the economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: Psychopaths. That part of the […]

Politics and journalism work hand in hand in sending messages of either hope or despair. The destructive nature of breaking down political opponent’s policies, playing […]

How quickly at times we judge people just because they may not look or act or be like us, (like me?). Judgementalism: Having a judgmental […]