Author: MotherhoodsMatter

The Social Needs Of The Young

Today, on the 171st anniversary of the slaughter of 20 pro democracy activists at the Eureka Stockade by government forces, I condemn Anthony Albanese for the viciousness of his government’s attack on the social needs and human rights of young Australians. (The above painting shows the Swearing of Allegiance to the Southern Cross (Eureka Flag) at Bakery Hill on 1st December, 1854.)

In a society where most parents are too busy working (in order pay the mortgage and other living costs) to be there for their children the way parents used to be there, it is an intellectual, moral and emotional obscenity to ban all people under the age of 16 from social media which are now the main place for socialising for most human beings in first world countries.

This ban will create more problems than it solves.

I predict:

A The Albanese government will increase the youth suicide rate with this ban.

B. Youth participation in violent criminal gangs will increase because of this ban.

This ban is an example of just how dangerous and stupid the centralised planning of people like Anthony Albanese can be.

While I am not a human rights lawyer, I believe it is a clear violation of Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

If I am correct then Anthony Albanese has violated half of these 30 human rights with one piece of legislation. Is that a world record?

Leaders who do things like this with impunity belong in jail.

Geoff Fox, Deember 3, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

WOMEN

In a statement titled “questions to answer over Labor’s war on women”, Senator Michaelia Cash demands:

“Minister Penny Wong must front up and answer this simple question: Did your government attempt to silence a woman for defending women’s rights?”

Geoff Fox, (former Registered Midwife – for thirty years), November 15, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME – THE TOBACCO WARS

Prohibition of alcohol in America did not work. The policy started with the Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment in 1919 which was abandoned by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933 after it caused massive criminal problems.

Now Australia is experiencing horrific tobacco wars leadinng to today’s headline in The Australian: “Crime calamity: feds sleep through alarm”

The report states “Australia is trapped in a catastrophic public policy stalemate over a $5bn-a-year tobacco black market and underworld war, spawned by years of steep cigarette tax increases that gifted (what economist Chris Richardson calls) ‘the most rolled-gold opportunity’ for organised crime in the nation’s history.

Despite high-level warnings that the country is on the brink of being unable to extinguish the crisis – which has lead to at least 150 firebombings in the past two years, at least two deaths and the decimation of the taxx on legal cigarettes – Home Affairs Minister Tony burke declared ‘we are not going to let organised crime dictate our health policy.’

…….. experts have labelled the Commonwealth approach to tobacco regulation under both Labor and Coalition governments as ‘the worst example of bad policy’ in the world.”

NSW Labor premier Chris Minns has said, “This would be the only tax in the world where it’s doubled but the rate of revenue has halved ……. it’s being replaced with illegal tobacco.”

According to The Australian “Police Federation Of Australia chief executive Scott Weber said he had warned Labor ministers many times that the Federal government was turning a health issue into a crime issue through its policies.”

Former head of Australian Border Force’s Tobacco Strike Team, Rohan Pike, said, “A tax policy like that is a pseudo prohibition ……. it’s designed to dissuade people from smoking ……. Had a serious enforcement effort been conducted and planned ten years ago, it may have had some effect, but now the market is so entrenched, the criminal supply chains are so entrenched ……. I would suggest it’s impossible to reverse it.”

Federal MP Andrew Hastie has said, “The Albanese Labor Government’s failure to enforce the law has allowed lucrative black and grey markets to take hold across Australia, simultaneously depriving the government of revenue, undermining legitimate retailers, and lining the pockets of criminal enterprises who are operating with impunity in our communities. The time for half-measures is over.”

There is much to be debated here, but one thing is an article of faith for me:

FREEDOM WORKS.

Wowserism, no matter how well intentioned, doesn’t.

Geoff Fox, September 8, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

DEMOCRATIC IDEALS

As the son of a man who risked his own life and saw his friends die fighting imperialist tyranny in 1945 in World War Two, I am appalled that Socialist Left Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has not condemned the presence of his Labor Party colleague and former flatmate, Daniel Michael Andrews, at a massive military parade in China attended by dictators from around the world.

The following reports of this have appeared in today’s The Australian newspaper:

Under the title “DESPOTS IN ARMS” Will Glasgow writes:

“Xi Jinping has declared China’s rise ‘unstoppable’ in a defiant address accompanied by a chilling projection of the People Liberation Army’s lethal capabilities and showcased an unprecedented alliance with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.

…….. In a striking image that ignited anger in Australia, former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews – favored in Beijing for signing his state onto Mr Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative – shook hands with the Chinese leader and took part in a leaders’ photo alongside the Russian and North Korean tyrants.”

In the same newspaper under the title “Unmissable echoes of Hitler’s Nuremberg” Cameron Stewart writes:

“The echoes of Hitler’s 1937 Nuremberg rally were unmissable.

The goose-steps, the scale, the precision, the unparalleled propaganda triumph, the rewriting of history and the grim fore-taste of a more ominous world order. All cheered on by the globe’s most brutal autocrats – and Daniel Andrews.”

Under the title, “ALP figures’ disgust at Dan not shared by Albanese” Ben Packham and Noah Yim write:

“Anthony Albanese has refused to criticize his former Canberra flatmate for attending Xi Jinping’s military parade.

One federal Labor MP branded the former Premier a ‘traitor’ after he was greetd with a handshake by the Chinese President and placed just three rows behind North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on a VIP podium to watch China’s ostentatious display of military might …….

Mr Albanese was asked multiple times in Parliament whether he condemned Mr Andrews’ attendance at the event but he sidestepped the questions …….“

Former Labor MP, Michael Danby, a former chair of parliament’s foreign affairs and defence committee, said: ‘It’s disgusting ……. I quote from Shakespeare: ‘Shame, shame, eternal shame’ ……. How can (we) get away from that photograph? Never, you never get away from something like that.”

Packham and Yim also write:

“Opposition defence spokesman Angus Taylor blasted Mr Albanese for his failure to call out his longtime friend. “…… it’s an appalling lack of leadership that the Prime minister wasn’t prepared to condemn that.” “

103 years ago this week, iconic Australian poet Henry Lawson died.

Lawson wrote with respect to the leftist ideal of revolution: “so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.”

Anthony Albanese’s former flatmate shows us the true spirit now of the current Australian Prime Minister.

Geoff Fox, September 4, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

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Like Xi Jinping, Andrews betrays everything that Socialism pretends to stand for.

Anthony Albanese condones that.

83,000 Old People Living At Home

Henry Lawson was born in a tent near Grenfell in 1867 and died at home of a cerebral hemmorhage in 1922, aged 55 years.

In modern Australia, the Albanese government is now delaying the release of 83,000 home care packages for old people. “5,000 people died waiting for care in the last financial year.” (The Australian page 5 today “Labor faces crossbench aged-care revolt”)

In 2021 as opposition leader Anthony Albanese said “We cannot be satisfied with a situation where older Australians are dying waiting for their home care packages.”

Now people die waiting for the Albanese government to release such packages to them.

Henry Lawson would have called for drastic change.

Geoff Fox, (denied access to the aged pension by bullies at “Services Australia”) September 3, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

Freedom Of Speech

“….. we must fly a rebel flag/As others did before us,/And we must sing a rebel song/And join in rebel chorus.” -from Freedom On The Wallaby, a poem by Henry Lawson, who died 103 years ago on this date in 1922.

Lawyer, author and military historian John Story warned on May 31 this year that the Australian Labor Party’s “thumping electoral victory” earlier in that month could lead to “more subtle” attacks on Free Speech.

Today, a proposed change to federal Freedom of Information laws leads analyst Stephen Rice to write in The Australian newspaper: “Labor’s contempt for a free press – and for the electorate – is deepening every day (and the) culture of secrecy is deepening under Labor.”

Rice describes current practices with respect to the free flow of information as: “The kind of abuse of process that actually damages a thriving democracy.”

This is the work of the Albanese government.

Geoff Fox, September 2nd, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

PARENTAL POWER

Philosopher John Locke wrote in his Second Treatise of Government that the phrase “paternal power” should be replaced by the phrase “parental power” since mothers and fathers have equal rights to such power.

This makes Locke a pioneer of gender equality.

In modern Australia, misandrist gender bigotry poisons life for men.

Geoff Fox, 29 August, 2025 (John Locke’s 393rd birthday), Melbourne, Australia

Approaching John Locke’s 393rd Birthday – Lest We Forget Our Rights

Friday of this week will be the 393rd birthday of a founding father of modern political liberalism, John Locke, pictured and quoted above.

This website is created in opposition to the centralised planning of an uncaring government, because destruction of personal liberty destroys people’s lives.

Who will help me spread this message?

Geoff Fox, Tuesday, 26th August, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

The Great Australian Dream

In the big government, big bureaucracy society cherished by the Albanese government, the ideal of working hard to own a home is more and more out of people’s reach.

Last Wednesday in Federal Parliament, in her first question to Anthony Albanese, new opposition leader Sussan Ley called out the Prime Minister for his failure to deliver promised new homes.

I have greater faith in the realistic, experience based approach of Victorian Shadow Assistant Minister for Housing, Chris Crewther, than the endless unrealistic promises of the likes of Anthony Albanese in Canberra.

Geoff Fox, July 25, 2025, Melbourne, Australia