Now I have already told that the questions around what is the real manifestation of Australian culture, are old hat, have been done to death, and have little, if any, relevant currency left.  Yet I want here to disconnect in the reader’s own associations of mind, that former dialogue, from how we Australians are actually being perceived in other countries.   First thing to note is that in Europe we are generally associated with as being very alike to the whites in Southern Africa, but also somewhat unlike to white New Zealanders, whom we nevertheless can be confused with easily.  Somehow white New Zealand has escaped the general populace of Europe condemning them all as racists, while white Australians, even when left wing, and ourselves indigenous, are very readily branded with the label of being a perpetrator of crimes against humanity.  Ironic that such is can manifest overtly as the experience of white skin indigenous Australians directly from the British in England, but real.   Second is that we are in general regarded as a bit dim, and very very easily lead astray.  This is not a positive general outlook by any measure, but is one which we are bound into an imperative of taking to our own advantage as individuals who find out first hand about this general social regard, whilst travelling outside of Australia, as many of us have.  This dimwit’s reputation is applied to the black population also.  However there are many examples of folk who have used that reputation to their advantage.  From Clive James to Steve Irwin, Men at Work, and Circus Oz, as well as Yothu Yindi and many many black painters, we all will capitalise upon being taken for idiots.  So lets just leave that point at that then shall we?  I dare say that even our ecologists might not be hampered by the cover once we included ecological sustainability in the umbrella of marketing our culture. Third however, is a sadder point, in which we are generally taken to be likely to be sexually promiscuous at best, and at worst definitively engaging in sadomasochism, if not also more distinctly overt criminal sexual conduct against minors, of the virtual reality variety which are indicative of neglect. That bad reputation we are all letting be forced upon Aborigines to the extent of calling in the Army, is internationally applied to every Australian, if for no other reason than that of because we let the Army go to remote Aboriginal communities to do basic child health assessments.  We are certainly all regarded internationally as guilty of child neglect as a feature of our cultural origins, and it can be sourced to a Dreamtime story about a woman who hide her baby in the bushes to go off a distance with a lover, in which the baby passed away.  Obviously not everybody who holds us in such ill repute knows that story, but I know myself, that international policing organisations pay great heed to such stories for the vindication of their own nations economies. Clearly an issue arises, around who would want to buy culture from a mob of virtual child neglectors, and so we try to sell our weather to the tourists instead, and wind up suffering from our intelligentsia, our environmentalists, and our Artists, being ripped off.  I mean, surely we had many enough of our own Al Gore type men working in his line way back in the nineteen seventies, surely; and our Artists often need to travel overseas to even substantiate their reputation as a real Artist here in Australia, while our intelligentsia are just the dimwits we all need to be, aren’t we?  No major contribution in the field of diagnosis of diseases, or immunology or genetics, or legal or educational expertise, are generally regarded overseas as possibly having a source in Australia.  Even our traditional Aboriginal Shamans are not recognised in that exceptional existing skill which is constantly portrayed in stabilising our societies in low crime rates, while bearing with such an international reputation. It is as though, in international repute, none of us every put in a real day’s hard labour, short of being fully permanently destitute and permanently oppressed black folk who can still make cool dot Art in that condition.  Actually the international Art world is backed by occultists who want to find out what keeps us all cool headed in the situation, and whom just won’t believe that our culture is real, and so try to purchase up the evidence of who we might really be dumping on.  Already most Australians who travel internationally realise at least a portion of our bad repute, but it is rarer for any of us to fully realise it within its every repercussion here at home.  In fact, if and when famous, it has often been that it is the bad boy reputation which floats the fame.  Especially among Americans being in need of being saved from our very Aussie nature, seems to be profitable.  I really don’t get why white America hasn’t better noticed that we are usually just playing up to the identities that they are forcing upon us.  Aren’t all internationally famous Australians just as terrible as Muriel? But the whole spectrum of capitalising upon that sort of image, while it can be immensely entertaining for our own sense of comedy, is also unfortunately attractive of the sort of tourists who want casinos, brothels, and worse.  Tourists who want, in fact, to launder their dollar through our economy, since we all seem so jolly good at being lumped with the branding of being child sex abusers, pornographers, and in general, just ordinarily sex maniacs at home.  But there is something we can do about this, so as to reduce the level of risk which our children have really been exposed to by such tourists being entertained.  We can let the truth out internationally, about how effective our social semblance is.  Our social semblance of being a totally relaxed nation always at play.  It is a mass effort at leading every foreigner astray which we are the best at.  Our national character can readily be affirmed to be that of sustaining a high level of stress without a comparable degree of physical stress indicators in our health or attitude.  Sure many Aussies drink too much, but really, we are factually working harder than Americans also.  Get on the internet any day for a prolonged length of time, (affordable at cafes for teenage boys to play games and surf overnight), and surf into witnessing how many North Americans are engaging in idle chatter in internet forums DURING THEIR NINE TO FIVE HOURS!  I know, it seems outrageous, though perhaps even more outrageous for any of us to be worrying. We might only need to let the international community know that once here, once bitten by the Great Australian Dream, if that happen to know how to dodge the reputation of their own criminal mind, through certain types of mental strategy, that sure as eggs they’ll all be in Hell for real with us, but they’ll be who gets stuck down there for longer, since we have the good common sense not to over use such mental facilities of gorging upon death.  Indigenous culture having sustained a real initiation tradition, constantly since the time of Moses, (is as the American Christian mainstream believe), of encouraging us all to believe that death is a fact of life to fear, has a real self decent impact upon us, in our general efforts to run away from what causes death.  Including being exposed to the belief that there are any actual child abusers among us.  The reason we are more motivated, is not because we are the only modern community who recognises a real need to fear both death and thereafter, but because we share a more tacit agreement that fear of death is real, and so probably it will not be nice to be stuck in that hell that dying is, for too very long.  It is to us the most basic intelligence, but to international freemasons, who found their intelligence in believing that the more death you take upon yourself then the more knowledge you get now, we still seem to be just dimwits.  God bless the poor in mind as well as in dollars, but rather they tell it as God Bless America, God defend New Zealand, and Thank Christ for Australia. And I will, Thank Jesus that is, for his defence of our being granted in God that interminable blessing of our innate Aboriginality, those of us who relate to the Animist pattern of indigenous Australian culture.  That pattern is one which, when taught, will scare off many tourists, and thus be a bit of a kick in the teeth to the present tourism industry built upon extracting money from who want to visit the land of the most blamed.  But in that context, since there are tourists who come here to blame what they do not know, and they blame us for acts of child neglect which are not real, but are thus projected upon our culture and thereby our children, no government or police force can really afford not to conduct that kick in the teeth.  Cleaning up the paedophilia at the Gold Coast might have been far better way to spend more on the police force than the anti-terror laws are proving to be.  (Over my own court case, there seem to have been plain clothes police who assert that since they could not frame me for child pornography, that best wait until I write something seditious, and then take me to court as a terrible, terrifying, anti-government, anti-Australian National, word telling demon: only joking but, as the police who follow me for being a lefty activist, surely better know who they are than I can.  But seriously I have to wonder why they follow me rather than the child pornographers.)  Meanwhile, if the government can manifest that change in how Australians are socially regarded internationally, it might just enable a shift in the whole economy which many of us have been waiting for. Tempt
 
When and if
An incident is
Non-specifically depicted
If
A person shows it
With intent
To tempt
Us believe of the worst that could be
In possible loss of
Real Human ideals
Yet all the while in our witness
No pleasure thus is
And by our labours
We work to sustain
With every fuss that is
Only that to define
By the least harmful intent
Real meaning not bent
But rather Heaven sent
Then
That person
Who showed of
What they supposed of with to tempt
Thus only incriminates
Their own mind of its fate
So
If you want of
To tempt with
Why even try if
You assume another person’s pleasure is
For no reason of evidence
Just because of your own basis
For pleasure’s expense
Which is
Why Religious law for
Obtaining any score
By tempting
Is defined by
Need to tempt folk believe in
Only your own ill minded sin
And only that you have never enacted
And only can even know of and in
Through evidence in you
That having received of ideas that
Where what trapped you
Into seeming to be in such sin
Of the ill minds of another’s cause
Yet all the same worn
Just like who supposed to
Entrap you
Into their own sins
As though that method is any escape which wins
Which is not the same thing
As simply tempting
That defined necessarily by
Its temporal quality
Since
If your own desires
You intend to act
Out in actual fact
Are that you actively tempt with
Rather than hide
All you do is
Repulse all who
You might have for wanted of
Observe themselves in your crimes
Those of us who
Could never so enjoy
Who still yet today define
Actual sin as a crime
And rather all that you might
Is attract into your context
Others already of your own same mind
Who want to provide and false verify
That for which everybody might be defined
As permanently in those sins
Which nobody can deny
Yet which still today
Repulse my real friends and I
For most of us will hide
All facts of that which might
Hurt each other by
And the best of us
If tricked into seeming as bad as like
To be as bad as what the ill minded like
Might just always have been
Exposing to you
Our very worst of any truth
As far as is that we know
Of our own real behavioural consequences
Be truly minded well
That we can safely be able
To tempt
You into believing
What you want of us
That your own ills expose to us
Yet we can’t feel the temptation of but
Can be pushed into falling into
What seems the inevitability of such
That to our children
Will we ever warn off
And away from
That of you too distressing
Meanwhile of action
Too overly preventative
Of the fielding of never tempting
Temptations
If in all contextual data relevant
Is known to be of health
In motivation shown
To censor
Assumes of the audience
Either perversion or
Discomfort in fear of
That perversion could be or is
That most of us
Are never so tempted
Since
 
Censor
 
When our worst fear
In which we censor
Is that of what might
Others among the audience
Make in their mind
So let them expose of
Their own ill that is
For if censored from what
They belong of from us
How will we know when
Society has in truth and reality
Recovered from the worst that be

One of the best strengths that Australian Society, as a whole, has going for it, is that we share a great variety and diversity of social experiences.  We are a society who are immensely accepting of very many distinct sub-cultures.  Some are better defined than others, and some are better off financially, while some are more well minded towards one another.  Yet the good and the bad of it, and the various interplays between a socialised conduct and an acculturated conduct aside, we, individually, frequently enough, find ourselves being the odd one out, and have then to related to other folk in their context rather than our own context.  The fact is that most Australians have experiences of becoming briefly a part of a cultural minority.  That makes us an easier place for new comers to settle into culturally, and installs in our self worth an attitude of placing a high value upon adaptability.  Often which is painted negatively in overseas contexts, but which is amply proven here to be a strength.  We do not have nearly the degree of gang warfare or gangland type criminal behaviour as there exists in most industrialised nations.  Not nearly the same degree of needing to affiliate with any criminal conduct so as to be economically advantaged.  Though you would think that the Queensland government were trying to unravel that strength by making a four thousand bed prison available to the judiciary, wouldn’t you perhaps, if Mr Keith Hamburger’s public lecture is to be believed. Our individual experiences of cultural diversity are what enable us to achieve a real multicultural society, even when at times government policy seems to work against that achievement.  Many of us might have often aligned with the concern that multicultural funding dollars are being spent on just another Morris dancing display.  Yet if we can not in truth value the real Morris dance tradition, and the very many other dance and song traditions which live and breath now in Australian places, and which we are exposed to as a function of a healthy society, how could we be truly adequately valuing our own indigenous dance tradition in its real high cultural importance. In the average day, of the average Australian, living in an average size town, we met and have to interact within more variety in social skill and cultural practise.  Let us all learn to appreciate this fact as one which makes our nation, society, community, and families, truly rich. As for my suggestion of the pattern in which a solution may manifest, in some ways my questions around it might as well all add up any questions alike to “Why isn’t orienteering an Olympic Sport yet?” And best that the answer be as oblique as “Because too much of the Human economy is already chopping down too many trees.” In another way this whole publication can very easily be read as a statement about how not to be ripped off.  How to accept that rip offs are happening to the extent of Human atrocities having been manifest in many part of the world, including Australia, while at the same time protecting children from that fact.  How to understand that we each ourselves might become subject to attempts to rip us off, and need a fortification against such attempts, while also accepting that in some situations there is not yet possible fortification enough.  Consider then the practise of manifesting yourself as the sort of person whose work is aided by it being ripped off.   Surely no campaigner for the environment would ever begrudge a figure such as Al Gore his Nobel Peace prize for a major contribution he is making today, even if one such ecological scientist might have been able to prove that the figurehead of American pride in environmentalism had been basing his reputation in defaming the reputation of Australian efforts.  Nobody who really cared would even both seeking any such evidence, because we all want Al Gore to succeed.  Even if we believe in a more left wing framework for that success, we can still side with Al Gore’s efforts for the environment.  It is not my actual want to point the finger at any Nation, organisation, or individual, who may or may not have ripped off any other.   Yet what we all realise is that there needs to be mechanisms for protecting those essential functions of our labour by which we can be immediately ourselves socially valued. (This paragraph might seem a little too bent a picture, but there are views held and espoused, that because the hole in the ozone is closer to Australia it must be more the fault of Australians, and those ideas are talked about even among the homeless street people in the City of Brisbane, and have in the past held weight among the Ummah of Islam as well.   I know this because I have made a substantive contribution to preventing such ideas among Muslims, many of whom are today beginning to re-evaluate their perspective around Australian culture.  However the reality of our Australian way in ecological sciences seems to really be in need of fully bearing in mind the nature of our own environment.  An environment of salt water tables, marsupials and eucalyptus can be proven to need experience of to define, but also can, within the world of Islamic belief, be proven to be the evidence that the hole in the ozone is not Australians fault.) However, in the general spectrum of what enables us to sustain our labour without being ripped off, there is a Religious principal which is unusually strongly believed in as a function of mainstream Australian culture.  That is the principal in which we simple let go of our Dreams, and of the best results of our labour, and even of our material assets at times so as to achieve the Dream.  Every Religious teaching has a point at which there is no passing go anymore until a thorough cleansing sort of letting go of the past is implanted and then proven.  In religious contexts there are many schools of thought which advocate that there is an inner esoteric circle, then around that a mesoteric circle of believers, around that then an exoteric world of belief in the Religion, an around that the external secular world.  In that mesoteric circle, which none may enter without demonstrating having given up materiality in many religions such as Buddhism, the reason for that giving up and letting go can be known.  That reasoning is a fundamental principal which underpins much of what is the nature of being Australian in many walks of life.  Remember I expressed earlier in this booklet that us Aussies have always been enabled in just letting be a certain percentage of folk who just say odd things.  It is a tacit acceptance that if a person happens to be in that frame of mind, in other cultures reserved for mesoteric circles of religious believers, that if they say any word at all then it is very likely to be a most fruitful word to hear. The basic principal is that we can let go of what we know so as to receive of further knowledge.  Even that we can not biologically be enabled to remember further knowledge without first letting go of portions of what we were already knowing.  Alike to a notion of the bucket of our memory having a set quantity.  Yet the full teaching is more than that, and defines knowledge itself as having a limited volume across the whole of humanity.  In which fact, the knowledge flows to where the bucket is empty, but is also adept and filling up, and flowing with the currency of knowledge.  Sort of alike to a recycling process.  In fact at Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory, there are tertiary units of study which teach the theory as the theory of the management of cultural knowledge. What this fact suggests about our mainstream culture, is not just that we’ve got a higher percentage of the population walking around who are a bit touched, (touched secularly by the general will to live, or maybe by consistent observance of little miracles of biology in test tubes and vials, and religiously by consciousness of Allah being in part defined as the accountability in a nature of the will to live), but that we have a more intelligent population because our culture is more fully enabling of a higher degree of intelligence.  In fact, the frame of mind of not fearing letting go of information, is usually, in other cultures, only sustained by the very rich, or the drug addicted.  While here in Australia it is sustained by persons in every walk of life.  The advantage this supplies to us is that advantage of not fearing the commodification of our own self.  That fact is often allured to by those who are frightened in their witnessing of our speed of exchange of real knowledge, and so whom want to portray our capacity in a negative light.  The allure for them is that of branding us within the general spectrum of being prostitutes of our labours.  A fact which is a little difficult to shake if we really don’t want to engage in the giving up of material possessions as is require of every Religious minded person who can enter that state of mind. Art’s Real Mind Wonder hasThe Artist hadTheir mind in thatMy own life atThese words definePoorly toArt’s real mindWould I in timeBe blessed to reconcileThis wonder mine In the big picture I paint, we must question what all the political and social forces are, which cause that our own Artists, Dancers, (Zookeepers), and Musicians, have to make it big overseas to have real economic influence even here in Australia.  This is the fact upon which all the wonders about what our culture really is first manifested as though any real identity crisis.  But what if the question is not any issue of any fault in our own valuation of our identity and culture, but rather about the international economy of the rich and famous.  Maybe not even among the rich and famous though.  For example, in the ultra-conservative US of A, with an economy geared by Puritan based Christianity, alternative minded folk can forge their own place in the economy only by doing what they love best.  Why our alternative minded folk struggle harder to with less success is the issue we all fully grapple with, and what I want to overtly state is that the problem is not ours but is about how the international money market works.  However to validate that assertion in full evidence you might need to interview a specialist Islamic economic analyst, or pay closer attention to correlations between international and national Australian news items and the international economy. My favourite example of how the alternative minded can forge their own place in the economy of the USA is that of Ina May Gaskin.  Maybe it is simply an overt jealousy but, since I was ever wishing to engage in exactly her sort of work.  Perhaps I could be the sort of midwife who midwives PhD’s since so many who have a doctorate tell that obtaining it is alike to having a baby.  Ina May Gaskin has progressed from being the unassuming wife of her Husband, Steven Gaskin, who is a world renown alternative hippy intentional community idealist, (known mainly now through Ina May’s exemplifying book “Spiritual Midwifery”, and the anthropological work which gives evidence to the fact that he has truly founded a new cultural paradigm), to being at the head of the most important midwives organisation in the USA.  A functional role which she fulfilled only because her husband and intentional community found a real need for somebody to become good at catching babies.  Today their home houses a modern birthing unit which takes paying customers from those states of the USA where homebirths are today still legislated against.  However, it is not my immediate task to write about that work, so I will cut that topic short here before I take my valuation of Ina May’s work through all its comparisons and contrasts into just too many words. Sake
 
While Art for Art’s sake
Defeats the purpose
When Work
For Work’s sake
Will that grant be baked
Art has its own gate
But for whose sake
Will true love belate I want to say a little more about the general picture of how our education and training system engages with youth.  I believe that it is relevant to look at the career paths accessible to youth in other industries, before we relate to how far up the career ladder it is useful to fund the young.  Take into account the fact that all the tertiary institutions of higher learning, can validate that the mature age entry students work harder, drop out less, and engage with their study within patterns of better career orientation, that is to say, they waste less of their own and the teachers time.  Apply that to the Arts now.  The picture is less distinct in the Arts since there are enough older folk with drug habits who imagine that they might become an Artist while they are unlikely to be imagining their drug related thought is useful in physics.  I expect that they might actually make better quantum physicists than Artists, many of them, if they undertook to cease with their drug habits through a practise which enables the drug takers comprehension to be sustained, but that is just pure speculation.  Think also about applying the worth of the TAFE colleges to the Arts.  So very much of study of a successful Artist while in their early twenties, needs to be skill oriented in the trade aspects of their work.  The TAFE system is renown today for having enabled many more practically minded folk to attain a preliminary qualification, and then upgrade it after the need for that further education is proven in the workplace.  That system could well be already proven to have produced a higher percentage of hard working Artists, than the Art Schools of Universities are fielding enquiries from at least.  Going to Art School has that reputation, both of excellence in product, and also becoming your self a bit of an Art world snob.  Having to write essays about why Art is of higher value than craft tends to produce folk who have a poise about their own work which is too far above the real value of their labour.  The point is, that if Australian is to establish a real future improvement to our internationally based industry of selling cultural materials, we need a labour force in that industry which is up to the job. In all of what I am suggesting, we need to consider that Americans are very good at marketing themselves, but that the marketing of Americanisms is a whole different ball game to what it might require of us Australians to market our Australian-isms.  Perhaps we don’t call our cultural commodities Australiana for nothing.  American culture is based in a substantiating of pride well beyond that possible to sustain within Australian cultural contexts, since our own culture is rather dependent upon the dismantling of pride.  The difference is simply that pride in America is closer held as a function of individuality, while pride in Australia is a collectively regarded function.  Americans are more collective in many other ways, and Australians more likely to be individual in language usage. Yet the immediate task to hand in this suggestion, might be just that our Artists, academics and bureaucrats, and other overt observers of culture and cultural paradigm shifts, and not forgetting the indigenous elders whose cultural basis can hold together the commodification of cultural materials, all learn to communicate better with each other, and with the general public about how policy and practise are being received by those whose experiences focus within the common social denominator. Forlorn Pick
 
The forlorn pictures
Were never the intent of
The Porn flick or censors
Which on spent was
A trick
To rid
By a flick
All presence of the child in
Any Australian’s voyuerism
Idealised as that to purvey
Within effort spend upon
Manufacturing
What need necessarily be explicit
Of the illness
Only in portrayal of
The method in recovering fully
A recovery that can not be
If its pictures
Around the illness
Of identities rests
Are over exposed in being presented
As other than what it truly is
That we have to recover from
Such as that this is
No forlorn picture show
But longer loved pick
In the back of the neck of
Who on Earth ever child pornography did
Might just prove to be
Who has the monopoly
Of pictures for child purveyors
Of what we are meant to be
No rat to them was too good for me
But of mice and humanity
Just be