CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

The greatest injustice in the history of the world was about to happen. Pontius Pilate, Jesus’ judge, was blackmailed into sentencing an innocent man, the only man who never sinned, to death. There’s much more subtlety to this than “Jesus Christ Superstar” revealed – but then it’s my job to give you the real story in this programme. Tag words: Pontius Pilate; Jesus Christ Superstar; Matthew 27:12-...

If you were going on trial in modern day China, or North Korea, you’d know that you’d be found guilty – It wouldn’t matter if you were really innocent. But if you went on trial in Australia, you’d expect to get a fair trial. We have an elaborate system to make sure of that. But if all the rules about giving you a fair trial were broken, or ignored, and it was obvious the people running the trial w...

Today you’ll hear the report that Jesus actually gave to God about what he had done in fulfilling what God had required Him to do. He’d now completed everything … but for his final blood sacrifice – the last sacrifice that would be needed to be made to God forever. The greatest act of self-sacrifice by the greatest man ever who ever lives. As Jesus and the disciples walked together to the Garden o...

When you’re trying to bring someone, hugely popular, down it’ll take careful planning. You have to be in control – total control. So when the person you’re trying to do this to takes complete control of your kangaroo court, what are you going to do? Jesus was no innocent victim of evil plotting pharisees and the traitor Judas – he was the one calling the shots all the way through. His enemies star...

Here’s the Easter story you haven’t heard. In AD70, the Roman Emperor Vespasian had his son, Titus, surround Jerusalem, with the 5th, 10th, 12th and 15th Legions who stormed it. Over a million people died and 100,000 were taken as slaves. And what has that got to do with Easter? I’ll tell you all about that and a lot of other things that happened before the Last Supper in this CYKIAE Easter progra...

The day after Jesus’ triumphal parade into Jerusalem, he goes to the Temple. He gives the priests some brutal tongue lashings. Finally he tells the Jewish crowds outside the Temple that they’re doomed until – well that’s where todays programme ends up – so you’ll have stay listening. Now the Jewish leaders have to come up with some other way to get the Romans to do their dirty work to kill Jesus....

You think you know the story of Easter? I’ll bet you you don’t. I’m going to tell you about the prophecy which gave the precise day that Jesus would enter Jerusalem as the Messiah/King exactly 173,880 days time from a historical event – and He did. The torture of Jesus that was too grisly for Mel Gibson to show in the Passion. Jesus’ incredible sense of humour, his brutal verbal confrontations wit...

This is the end my friends. Over the past 12 parts I’ve looked at the issue of the Stolen Generations – and there is no other conclusion than the finding that it’s a myth. In the first two parts I looked at what Aboriginal activists had to say about it from the 1940’s to the 1980s (until Peter Read “discovered” the Stolen Generations). Not one Aboriginal activist had commented on the Stolen Genera...

I‘d have to say that Sister Kate probably never did the Shimmy. But I know she did things that most other people would never have done, and when she breathed her last breath, she must have had the sure and certain satisfaction of knowing that she left the world a better place for many adults then living, who at one time in their lives had been in her care. For people like Dr Anna Haebich, the best...

The Human Rights Commission  Bringing Them Home Report,  from Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson stated: The policy of forcible removal of children from Indigenous Australians to other groups for the purpose of raising them separately from and ignorant of their culture and people could properly be labelled 'genocidal' in breach of binding international law. The previous programmes in this s...

Molly, Gracie and Daisy were sent to the Moore River Settlement in 1931 by the Protector of Aborigines, AO Neville. What was it like, the place they were being sent to? Doris Pilkington, in her book,  Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence  tells us that the settlement was for Aboriginal half-caste children only. But is that right? Tag words: Molly; Gracie; Daisy; Moore River Settlement; Protector of Abori...

Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence  is a book that is part of the curriculum for school children, Years 6-11, throughout Australia. It was also made into a movie with funding by the Australian Film Corporation in 2002 with a cast led by that great English actor, Kenneth Branagh and starring many prominent Australian actors. It was directed by one of my old class mates at Sydney University Law School, P...

In the previous part of this programme I told you that Justice O’Loughlin who, before he was appointed to the bench, had done a lot of work as counsel appearing for Aboriginals, had heard the leading two test Stolen Generations cases of Cubillo and Gunner v The Commonwealth. He found that they hadn’t been wrongfully taken from their parents. In fact after this case no Stolen Generation cases have...

On Friday 11 August 2000 Justice O’Loughlin handed down his judgment on the two stand out claims of people who said they were members of the Stolen Generations. And he, when he was a barrister, had frequently acted for Aboriginals, rejected these two outstandingly unlosable Stolen Generations cases brought by Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner. Why? The following week after the judgment was handed dow...

Sure, the High Court case of Kruger v The Commonwealth had been a 6-0 wipe for the claim that the laws operating over the custody of Aboriginal children or half-caste children was genocidal. But the High Court correctly pointed out that it hadn’t heard any evidence about how the laws were enforced in practice. If the laws were pursued in a way that was genocidal, then the cases that were going to...

The Bring Them Home enquiry was to be an investigation, broadly, in the words of the terms of reference to trace the past laws, practices and policies which resulted in the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families by compulsion, duress or undue influence, and the effects of those laws, practices and policies. The instructions for the inquiry were given by Mi...

I forgot to tell you something important that Sir Ronald Wilson, one of the two chairs who did the Bring Them Home Report, said. So I’ll tell you now before I continue with the exchange of correspondence between Sir Ronald Wilson and Nicholas Hasluck after the last letter that Nicholas sent to Sir Ronald on 19 May, 2000. Sir Ronald had been one of Nicholas’ lecturers at the University of Western A...

In my previous programme I said that there wasn’t a genocide and there wasn’t any Stolen Generations. In the way of the world today you might be thinking I’m a racist but you won’t once you understand how this whole Stolen Generations thing works. I’m not just making this up. I have all of the judges of the highest courts in the land who have heard cases where the plaintiffs claim to be members of...

In my last programme I told you that in 1980 Peter Read wrote a pamphlet revealing that Australia had committed a genocide every bit as bad as the Nazi holocaust of the Jews – that is now widely discussed in papers by academic genocide professionals. Peter’s wife told him to call them The Stolen Generations, and not the Lost Generations, as he was originally going to call them in his pamphlet and...

This was probably the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard. It made me feel ashamed to be an Australian. The words are spoken here by Sir Ronald Wilson, he was the Chair of the Bringing Them Home Report issued by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in April 1997, giving its findings into what were called and are known by everyone in this country, if not the world, as the Stolen Genera...

In World War 2 the biggest factory ever was built by Ford to make the Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber. The smart guys until then had had many different factories make parts for this large type of bomber, and then shipped the manufactured parts to a factory that assembled them all into a plane. That wasn’t good enough for “Cast Iron Charlie”, Charles Sorensen, the Ford production chief. He knew...

I think I have no fear of being corrected when I say that Holland is THE most outstandingly progressive city in the world for homosexuals. The Amsterdam tourist industry website has all of this to say: “Amsterdam's reputation as one of the most gay-friendly cities in Europe is well earned.  Relatively liberal attitudes in the first half of the 20th century led to the establishment of the first Dut...

On 10 April 1912 the magnificent, largest luxury liner in the world, the White Star Line’s unsinkable Titanic, left Southampton harbour to begin its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean – and to fulfil its tragic destiny. The inability of any of the latest technologies carried on board this state of the art ship, to give warning to the danger that lurked out of sight, under the water, was one o...

In this CYKIAE programme I’m taking you to Hawaii with me. We’re leaving from Alaska and heading south before the winter hits. Everyone that can, clears out from Alaska for the winter – sun-seekers. I’ve even bought a ticket for you. It’s a budget ticket – but if you’re like me you’re prepared to rough it a bit for the saving. The reason why this ticket was sold at a budget price is because the ai...

Maybe I’m going too far to say that the giraffe is the most beautiful, graceful and extraordinary animal in the world. Our name for this animal that we know as the giraffe comes from the Arabic word “zerafa” which means charming or lovely one. But listening to all of the facts about the incredible facts about the giraffe’s body – I’d have to agree with myself that it is the most beautiful, gracefu...