Listening to the Other Side

 



Future historians, archaeologists, archivists, always surprised by the humbleness of the circumstance, just as he had been when he had gone to visit Paul Bowles half a century before; then one of the world's most famous and admired writers. 

They were fucking with his head. There was an ice addict living in his front bedroom, his mother's old room. Craigie had shown up in the early hours of one morning, on the off, sleeping rough down near the railway lines, having fallen out with his parents in some screaming match during which the police were called. Much of what Craigie said didn't make a lot of sense; and every time Old Alex tried to make sense of it, he just felt sadder still. 

Craigie thought the neighbours were talking about him. Maybe they were. He hadn't invited him in; he just kind of stayed and moved his junk in without any invitation and actually, without making a specific request. And would show up every few days, sleep it off, have a shower, something to eat from the out of date cans the prepper in Old Alex still stored for an emergency, and would be off again. Or show up absolutely buckled at 4am.

So what was he to do about it? He had perhaps a naïve faith that the situation would resolve itself. But in the meantime he might look up advice on how to get someone into the nearest rehab, assuming the target wanted to go, which they didn't. I don't want to go to rehab, baby, blah blah blah, I don't want to go to rehab....

Maybe because he was older, lonely up the hill as he liked to put it, maybe it really was dementia as his enemies whispered, don't give them fuel, but it wasn't that. It was a soft heart; in an age and a territory when kindness equalled foolhardiness.

The country itself? OMG. Australia was being Undone before him, and the subtitle to his next book, Australia Undone, came to appear more and more appropriate. 

Bondi was in the rear view mirror. The consequences dramatic: the self-immolation -- auto de fe, a magnificent book he had loved long ago, of the Liberal Party, the realignment of the right, the utter insanity of the hate speech laws, the screeching march into totalitarianism, Hitler, as he would note to the young and surprised, came from the left not the right, and enjoyed enormous popularity for a time. All of it, now, curdled into the violence of the streets, and police spraying pepper spray at protestors, straight into their faces.

The punches landed with a kind of disorienting brutality; for the left were used to chanting their causes in comparative peace, protected not targeted by the police. Now all that was gone.

The nation, politically, swung to One Nation in the face of massive, overwhelming migration.

And all lay curdled before them.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-F%C3%A9_(novel)


MAINSTREAM HEADLINES

THE OTHER SIDE

One Nation's UNSTOPPABLE Rise as Libs Fade Into Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMTP9Dr3MU

Who the hell are the morons that make up the 27% still supporting Labor after what they have deliberately done to this country?
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I was born a Liberal (if you know what I mean) and I don't care at all who is their leader now, I am voting 1 Nation. 😊
34
People are fed up with all the shit. They want a party who puts the country and its people first.
15
I've always been liberals but no longer, now one nation


Albozo’s Labor does not represent the working class at all anymore. Albozo’s Labor is essentially a communist party which pander to globalist agenda while throwing all Australian’s under the bus.

SKY NEWS

https://www.skynews.com.au/

‘The door must be shut’: Angus Taylor outlines bold crackdown on migration

Angus Taylor has promised a massive crackdown on immigration, pledging to shut the door on people who “hate our way of life” while committing to reverse the “collapse in living standards” under Labor.


CANBERRA, Australia,NewsWire Photos. February 13, 2026: Former Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra announcing her resignation. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman,

Politics

Ley’s golden handshake revealed, as One Nation eyes up her seat

Sussan Ley will exit federal politics under a lucrative two-decade-old deal, as her looming resignation will trigger a by-election in Farrer and headaches for Liberal leader Angus Taylor.

GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA

https://www.theguardian.com/au

Sydney protesters want to sue police over alleged brutality at the anti-Herzog rally, but it will be a struggle

An obscure section of a 2009 piece of legislation states ‘compensation is not payable’ when NSW officers are granted additional powers for ‘major events’

ABC

https://www.abc.net.au/news

It took 80 years for a woman to become Liberal leader, and 9 months to ditch her


THE NIGHTLY


https://thenightly.com.au/

Change or die: New leader Angus Taylor and Liberal allies now face the big task of fixing fractured Coalition

Angus Taylor and Jane Hume will be under immense pressure to stabilise the embattled party.

MACRO BUSINESS

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/

Net long-term arrivals into Australia surge higher

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