Ollie Lind Poetry

With the world sliding towards the financial abyss at an ever increasing pace we must face up to the fact that we, as a generation, blew it. We can blame greedy financiers, the ‘smart’ people who lost sight of the fact that ethics must be the cornerstone of any civilization. But it is we, the [...]

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There is no doubt in my mind that the biggest single scourge facing the planet is aids. There is considerable conjecture as to the origin of the disease and, in the early days such names as ‘gay plague’ were common. There is no doubt that the gay population is particularly vulnerable, but it had progressed [...]

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Sorry to the aborigines. The single biggest news item in Australia this week was the apology to the aboriginal people for past misdeeds committed by the whites. In particular a period we call ‘the stolen generation’ where aboriginal children were taken from their parents and placed in white homes to give them a ‘civilized’ upbringing. [...]

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