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Homer

The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life
Human Rights / Justice / Respect / Shared humanity

The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life

Most of what appears on this site concerns itself with the present tense of injustice – the ACT, the AFP, the slow grinding machinery of institutions that would rather forget…

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July 20, 2026
The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning
Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Sexism

The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning

Homer's The Odyssey records the earliest instance of verbal abuse of a woman, demonstrating an embedded cultural trope that requires rectifying.

8 Comments
July 14, 2026
Creatures of Stardust: On Breaking Down Barriers and the Odyssey of Discovery
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Culture / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Creatures of Stardust: On Breaking Down Barriers and the Odyssey of Discovery

By having the courge to share adventures with others, we open ourselves to a better understanding that differences between us are not so big afterall.

7 Comments
April 29, 2026
Lest We Forget What It Truly Costs: Achilles, Anzac, and the Lie of Glorious War
Corruption / Propaganda

Lest We Forget What It Truly Costs: Achilles, Anzac, and the Lie of Glorious War

War is not glory and to use the sacrifice of the fallen as propaganda for new battles, to undermine the courage and mateship for political gain is an insult.

11 Comments
April 23, 2026
The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions

Old men at the end of their lives send young people at the beginning of theirs to fight and die for something they have no say in .

8 Comments
March 24, 2026
The Gospels, Homer and Virgil, Masterpieces of Classical Literature
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The Gospels, Homer and Virgil, Masterpieces of Classical Literature

Recognition of literary mimesis by the Gospels from ancient texts challenges the origins of the Gospels.

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January 22, 2026
Mesopotamian Roots of the Abrahamic Faiths: Shared Myths and Connections
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Mesopotamian Roots of the Abrahamic Faiths: Shared Myths and Connections

Commonality in narratives between Abrahamic religions evidence far earlier origins in Mesopotamian myths.

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January 21, 2026
Homer: From Ancient Fusion To Modern Meaning
Human Rights / Shared humanity

Homer: From Ancient Fusion To Modern Meaning

Rather than tales for ancient times, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey demonstrate the same cares and priorities across the ages, remaining relevant today.

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January 7, 2026
Milman Parry: Application of his Oral-Formulaic Theory to Indigenous Australian Traditions
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous

Milman Parry: Application of his Oral-Formulaic Theory to Indigenous Australian Traditions

Oral transmission of knowledge via poetry preserves history and culture through across generations with accuracy.

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August 1, 2025
In Praise of Nostos
Corruption / Culture / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

In Praise of Nostos

Portrayal of character in The Odyssey highlights the virtue of the resilient individual who survives and prospers, despite the many who would leech off them.

15 Comments
October 5, 2011

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  • RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

    Solomon Star
    13 October 2011
  • AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again

    Solomon Star (Print only)
    4 October 2011
  • Moti affair

    Solomon Star
    14 September 2011
  • Moti affair

    Fiji Sun
    12 September 2011
  • Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

    Solomon Star
    22 July 2011
  • Moti end game

    FijiSun
    22 July 2011
  • Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

    Solomon Star
    20 July 2011
  • Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

    Solomon Star
    24 June 2011
  • The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

    Solomon Star
    17 June 2011
  • Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

    Solomon Star
    14 June 2011
  • Moti and other affairs

    Solomon Star
    9 June 2011
  • Comment: Excellent Read

    Fiji Sun
    7 June 2011

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Recent Comments

  1. Ramses on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    It’s clear as day to me. This matter is about a group of white people who wanted to rid themselves…

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    Those letters from Miss Angel Marina are very disturbing. The intolerance of white people to black people hasn’t changed in…

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    Polina white people have been doing that to black people for centuries.

  4. Kofi on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters

    I’m watching how this matter progresses, the more I read about what it’s gone on here the more disgusted I…

  5. Jen on Words That Arm: Why Pauline Hanson’s Racism Matters

    I don’t understand how the ACT government could not have disciplined, and in my experience, terminated the employment of Angel…

  6. Bill Wheatley on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    Watershedd on the evidence that’s available to us, and there might be other evidence that we simply don’t have, because…

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