Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

Another Digger shot by Taliban in Afghanistan


"AN Australian soldier has been wounded in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. The unnamed soldier was wounded during an operation in the restive Oruzgan Province in southcentral Afghanistan, Defence said. He suffered a gunshot wound to his arm. Defence said the wound was not life-threatening and the soldier's condition was stable. "The soldier's family has been informed about the incident. As the operation is ongoing, however, Defence is not able to release further information at this time," it said.
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The shooting follows a clash between Australian troops and the Taliban on Sunday night during which commando Lance Corporal Jason Marks was killed and four others wounded. Defence head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said arrangements for the repatriation of Lance-Cpl's body to Australia were in place."

While the situation of our troops being in Afghanistan is different from that in Iraq, it is related. In both cases fit and capable Australian men are worthlessly risking death for a regime that wishes to force 'democracy', materialism and corporatism on regions of the world who's constituents do not necessarily want these things. Its globalisation, or imperialism under the modern guise of 'progress', and dispite what the mainstreem media tells you, not everybody wants this globalisation.

Yes, we are on the hunt for Bin Laden and his supporters who bombed an American building, but what is not widely known is that Bin Laden committed his 9/11 act of 'terrorism' in first place, not out of evil fun and not because we in the West are not muslim, but as a reaction against the build up of western corporations and economic interests increasingly dictating affairs in the Middle East and replacing their culture with markets and products. He did not, after all, target a Western Church or some other non-economic cultural symbol. In a highly symbolic act he targeted a key symbol of globalisation: the World Trade Centre. Stop globalisation. Stop the obsessive targeting of new markets in other nations or the result will be more conflicts on the other side of the world, and indeed perhaps even in our own backyard.


Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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