David, the man who as a very young boy killed the giant Goliath, wrote a poem (a psalm) when he was King of Israel, about 1,000 years before Jesus was crucified. It reads as a staggering account, by Jesus, of his crucifixion and death. Now remember that the Old Testament was translated into Greek by over 70 scholars (why it’s called the Septuagint – from the Latin for 70) in about 275BC. At that time most Jews didn’t speak Hebrew. So the Old Testament is locked in as being 100% genuine – written...
Sep 22, 2023•23 min•Season 8Ep. 10
Jesus wasn’t crucified on Good Friday. Excruciating is a word that comes from Christ’s crucifixion. Why does Richard Dawkins, atheist hero extraordinaire, have his knickers in a twist for all of the wrong reasons, again, over a story from the Old Testament that’s really all about Jesus that he doesn’t understand anyway – as usual? Stick around and find out. Tag words: Jesus Christ; the Messiah; crucifixion; the disciples; Matthew 12:40; Abraham; Isaac; pharisees; Son of God; Son of Man; John 8:5...
Sep 21, 2023•22 min•Season 8Ep. 9
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 27:12-14; Luke 23:13-15; John 18:33-36; John 18:37-38; John 14:6; John 18:38-40; Luke 23:16-17; Luke 23:18...
Sep 20, 2023•22 min•Season 8Ep. 8
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 wanted to make sure that you were found guilty, even though you weren’t, you’d be in a state of shock...
Sep 18, 2023•28 min•Season 8Ep. 6
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 of Gethsemane Jesus gave them his final instructions about spreading his teachings - something they w...
Sep 17, 2023•24 min•Season 8Ep. 5
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 started tripping all over their own feet. They never regained their balance. So the people who wanted to...
Sep 15, 2023•21 min•Season 8Ep. 4
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 programme. Tag words: Easter story; Roman Emperor Vespasian; Roman Emperor Titus; Jerusalem; 5th Legion; 1...
Sep 14, 2023•21 min•Season 8Ep. 3
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. Tag words: Jesus Christ, triumphal entry; Jerusalem; Mark 14:1; Messiah/King; Tim Rice; Andrew Lloyd...
Sep 13, 2023•25 min•Season 8Ep. 2
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 with the pharisees (the Jewish priests). Was Christ crucified on a Wednesday and not a Friday? The warn...
Sep 12, 2023•30 min•Season 8Ep. 1
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 Generations until Peter Read had discovered it, and since then not one Aboriginal activist has failed to c...
Sep 11, 2023•30 min•Season 7Ep. 13
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 thing that Sister Kate ever did was to die. No matter what you say about a dead person, you can’t b...
Sep 04, 2023•31 min•Season 7Ep. 12
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 series, looking at the decisions of the High Court of Australia in the Kruger Case in 1997 and the decision of ...
Aug 28, 2023•23 min•Season 7Ep. 11
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 Aborigines; AO Neville; Doris Pilkington; Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence; Aboriginal half-caste children; Ca...
Aug 22, 2023•24 min•Season 7Ep. 10
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, Phil Noyce, where he headed up the University Film Club. He’s become one of the great directors. He’s ...
Aug 14, 2023•21 min•Season 7Ep. 9
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 ever again been brought before the Courts. Why? Because after the six judges of the High Court who h...
Aug 08, 2023•22 min•Season 7Ep. 8
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 down, , Nicholas Hasluck, in his book Bench and Book, reveals that one of the chair of the Bring Them H...
Aug 01, 2023•22 min•Season 7Ep. 7
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 be brought by Lorna Cubillo and Robert Gunner would prove it. After the October 1994 Darwin Conferen...
Jul 25, 2023•25 min•Season 7Ep. 6
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 Michael Lavarch the Attorney-General of Australia on 2 August 1995. The language isn’t balanced, it st...
Jul 18, 2023•26 min•Season 7Ep. 5
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 Australia in the early 1960s. Then they bumped into each other by chance while both of them were work...
Jul 11, 2023•28 min•Season 7Ep. 1
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 the Stolen Generations, agree with me. The only cases that have gone to court to prove that the ind...
Jul 04, 2023•26 min•Season 7Ep. 3
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 so he made the change. The Stolen Generations story is about the forcible removal of children from t...
Jun 27, 2023•25 min•Season 7Ep. 2
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 Generations. The spoken words that I’m about to play you aren’t exactly the words that appeared at page 37...
Jun 20, 2023•25 min•Season 7Ep. 1
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 he could build these aircraft at one plant on a production line. This was a frankly unbelievable cal...
Jun 18, 2023•21 min•Season 6Ep. 1
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 Dutch gay magazines, Levensrecht and Wij. Real progress was made from the 1970s on, leading to the forma...
Jun 16, 2023•22 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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 of the things that led to the development of the new technology. The new technology would use sound u...
Jun 15, 2023•24 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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 airline has only loaded the plane with enough fuel to get 80% of the way to Hawaii. The whole trip is ...
Jun 14, 2023•24 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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, graceful and extraordinary animal. You may not agree but before you make a decision listen to this programm...
Jun 13, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Gender theory? What is it? Well one of the best books that cover the dark place that gender theory came from is the book written by one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Igor Shafarevich. He lived through the horrors of Stalinist Russia. He published his insightful study into the evils of socialism in a book called The Socialist Phenomenon. He described socialism as a death cult. It’s goals are being carried out, in part, today in the form of modern gender theory. It...
Jun 13, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In my last programme I spoke with Patricia Weerakoon, a sex therapist on some issues of sex and gender – the issues that some people have made amazingly confusing to many people to do. The first vow under the Hippocratic Oath is to do no harm. That doesn’t seem to matter to some people today. So let’s dive right in with Patricia to continue – and there’s no better place to start than to find out from her what gender is – because some people have created massive confusion over that word and what ...
Jun 06, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 2
I’m terrified for our young children today. The government, teachers from pre-School to University and in many other walks of life whose job it is to care for and protect our very young children, people who are supposed to care for them don’t seem to be doing that. Worse some of them seem to be leading our children astray either because they’re not aware that that’s what they’re doing, or worse, deliberately. Without wisdom, good intentions, and even kindness and courage. are ultimately of littl...
May 30, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
