Hello Kanelle and others,
Thank you, Kanelle, for this: https://main.cse-initiative.eu/?p=1313
I write to you in English, Kanelle, so that Phillip Adams and everyone else can be part of the conversation. Phillip is not the relatively well-known veteran Australian journalist of the same name. He is a Greek-Australian who played a sterling role in the defence of Julian Assange. He participated in an online tribute to Julian that was held on Australia Day in Athens in 2019. I can put it online for you if you want it, but for the moment I will just post this extract where Phillip is speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vtxjw675yc
Phillip knows more about the post-imprisonment situation with Assange than I do, but Assange is in danger of being forgotten, along with Reiner Fuellmich and others who have taken more risks than the mainstream wants citizens to remember.
Nowadays Phillip campaigns against the atrocities taking place in Palestine. He likens them to the historical experience of aborigines in Australia (continuing to the present day in his analysis). In the context of the historical record, on 1st February he posted: https://www.facebook.com/YugambehNation/posts/pfbid0ivBYmJUNoPTAkFhYDXvTqd1XP4RtjkRfsdRgaPLNpRejH1LGQ6P71Eg271mkBd36l
There were numerous reactions to it. I cite only those that strengthen what I myself want to say:
Tim Robinson We don’t deny the past or the deep Indigenous histories that long predate 1788. Those stories deserve respect and truth. But I also believe Australians today can hold these realities together — honouring First Nations sovereignty and suffering, while still building a shared nation through hard work, reconciliation, and common purpose. Our future depends on coexistence, improvement, and unity, not erasure or division.
Trevor Cripps Indigenous Sovereignty is a recognised legal concept in Canada and the United States, allowing their First Nations to operate governments and courts, have a distinct citizenship, collect taxes, hold lands that have been ‘reserved’ from the Constitution, and operate as sovereign entities within the framework of a larger Federation. Indigenous sovereignty is not an issue elsewhere, so it shouldn’t be in Australia.
Brett Slater(addressing Phillip) It sounds like you’re pushing toward a divided country, and that never works. You’re a smart person, which is why I’m confused about why division seems to be the direction. If we don’t recognise that elites benefit when ordinary people fight each other, then we’re missing the bigger picture.
From WH: What I want to say has to do with Phillip’s custom of framing his orientation on atrocities against Australian aboriginals in an anti-Zionist perspective. This is how he responds to Brett Slater:
Phillip Adams: Yes I get where you are coming from, I just don’t think you understand where I am coming from. It is a historical fact. There was an extermination to settle land that was already inhabited (Australia). A supremacist ideology that is reinforced via a lack of real conciliation for Britain’s instilled genocides, It is the same concept that Britain instilled in Palestine via the affirmation of the Zionist’s Balfour declaration. See we can not “reconcile” when conciliation never happened in the first place ( I was told this by a Tasmanian First Nations person in 2001). He went on to tell us that you can’t reconcile, if conciliation never happened , because what are you reconciling to, if you never conciled in the first place. The country (Australia) is already divided. Australia needs a conciliation process that leads to a treaty of sorts. I expose uncomfortable truths that need to be addressed in my opinion. It is not intended for you to feel comfortable with. It is something to reflect on and understand how what happened in Australia, is happening in Palestine now, instigated by the same house and now in partnership with Zionist’s. Cheers
This is my response:
Wayne Hall: Brett Slater is right, and not only that. An anti-Zionist who says the things Phillip Adams says about the movement that professes to be prioritizing the rights of aborigines in Australia seems oblivious to the actual role the Zionist lobby is playing, not in the Middle East but in Australia. However badly some Jews behave in Israel, they have more grounds for claims on that country than they have grounds for claims on Australia.
Here is a young man who organized a defence of Australia Day, 2026. His organization is called AUSPILL and his name is Hugo Lennon.
From minute 7.50 They are regearing for these sort of attacks on our national day and our identity. We can’t play this game of compromising. We have to go further and actually advance now. It’s not going to be “Oh, let’s come together and have unity” because it’s not going to happen. The other side is burning our flags, singing “abolish Australia” calling for monuments of our people to be taken down at their rally. Chanting that. There’s no good-faith discussion or coming to the table to be had with them. We simply have to get our own side and advance them to a true position whereby the attacks from the other side are left to mean nothing. We fundamentally have to accept that conquest was natural and a good thing that has happened in our history. You can’t make excuses or apologies for it rather than accept it that that was the reality then, as it is now, because we can also be conquered, as many would argue we currently are. We obviously had a hugely successful Australia Day across the county. I’m extremely proud of all the patriots. You not only celebrated at home, which is its own very important thing that you do, but also those who came out and marched, because we weren’t shown up. We showed that that private majority can be public, and years of this professional activism from the Left gets them nowhere actually. In fact it has probably caused more resentment for their side of politics. Our position in the south is guaranteed. We are proud to be here in the south of this world. What we are building here is legitimate. We are not sorry. We are aware that it can be taken away from us too as it was taken away from the aboriginals. And to avoid that we must celebrate Australia Day. We must celebrate who we are, totally unforgiving. And we are winning. That is exactly what is happening. I am just asking that people continue on the trajectory, that we push and we advance forward because – again – complacency. They will take it back off us. We must advance further in the direction of patriotism so that we are invulnerable to these attacks of burning our flag and trying to guilt-trip us. We must move beyond that and outmanoeuvre them completely. They can be doing their own thing, screaming and yelling. Australians have shown the strength to move against the combination of politicians, the media, the academia. We’ve shown our strength here. Now we must advance. This huge exercise of even having the Australia Day this year, defending it, surging in the polls. That will all be for nothing if we go back to the status quo. We must move beyond it. Get over the guilt and the sorrow and advance to a position of unrelenting pride.
Here is a statement that is trying to be objective: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/president-herzogs-visit-a-terrible-cruelty/#:~:text=The%20government%20supports%20the%20Zionist,imprisoned%2C%20tortured%20and%20slaughtered%20Palestinians.
Note that the Jewish Council of Australia has said: ‘This is not a moment to host the head of a state which has been found to have committed a genocide in Gaza.’
Let us move on to another distressing subject, the experiences of the citizens not only of Australia but of most countries, in the period starting around 2020. Let it be expressed in the words of the dismissed psychologist Ros Nealon-Cook, speaking to John Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-YEv3917c
Ros Nealon-Cook covers most of her basic points in the first seven minutes of the interview. At minute 14.45 she says: “I don’t have a lot of faith in any of the governments any more, whatsoever after what I’ve seen in the last few years. I hate to say that. It makes me sad to say that. I wish we could, but that’s not the case. I believe that governments, the systems that currently run us, need to change fundamentally. I don’t have the answers to how that might come about.”
Does this text offer the beginnings of an answer to the question that Ros raises?
https://main.cse-initiative.eu/?p=1325
Bicameral legislatures are nothing new or unusual even if they have been rejected in Greece, but legislatures that compete rather than complementing each other are not something that has been tried out as far as I know. In Australia the oldest example of a parliamentary upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council, which dates from the same post-Napoleonic period as the Greek Revolution and Phillip Adams’ ancestor Anagnostaras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagnostaras
It just so happens that the president of this Legislative Council in 2026 bears the remarkable name of Benjamin Franklin.
Here are links to history’s Benjamin Franklin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
and to Byron Bay’s Benjamin Franklin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_(Australian_politician)
And here is Benjamin Franklin introducing the New South Wales Legislative Council https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3GwaVA5fI
Mr Franklin is from a party, the National Party, that historically would tend to be on the same wavelength as Hugo Lennon. But in today’s conjuncture AUSPILL’s politics are seen by televiewers and mainstream society not as patriotic but as extremist.
Could Hugo Lennon talk to Mr. Benjamin Franklin about this and see what he says?
Comment from Kanellos Patsios? Comment from Hugo Lennon? Comment from Phillip Adams?