Thursday, July 31, 2025

Jana Wendt - Far and Dark side of the Moon - His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp

 You may get stabbed in the head,

with a dagger or a sword You may be burned to death, or skinned alive or worse But when they torture you, you will not feel the need to run for Though you die, La Resistance Lives on

Jana Wendt – The Far Side of the Moon

Thursday 31st July – In conversation with Leigh Sales

Even managed to share the Czech meaning of ‘Listost’ used by Milan Kundera it is a unique word depicting longing and regret …and how we cannot change the past
Jana Wendt: ‘Politics these days, boy, is it controlled. I actually remember having fun interviewing politicians’

Gunnhild Øyehaug was praised as one of the most thoughtful writer ✍️  a master of short stories

Despite a jolting first sentence – ‘‘As I sat on the toilet menstruating, a fairly large part of my brain fell down into the toilet bowl’’ – the opening story, ‘‘Birds’’, is as conventional as the collection gets.

Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are. As a rule, what you are is one simmering, endless longing. And that was how this sentence struck Anna Bae’s consciousness, like a quivering arrow of truth. That said: it’s possible. To meet a French army officer. Or simply to manage whatever it is you are longing for. That seems impossible to manage. That blankets you like destiny.”

A high-achieving barrister who has advised two prime ministers is calling on the federal government to ban Chinese messaging app WeChat for spreading Communist Party propaganda.

Daniel Ward, the son of former A Current Affair host and 60 Minutes reporter Jana Wendt, said WeChat was a major threat, with Labor instead looking to crack down on Facebook and Twitter for publishing 'misinformation and disinformation'


Leadership quotes about the essence of leadership

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

– Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer



The greatest mathematician-cum-singer-songwriter of all time

His verse was remarkable, making effortless rhymes such as:

When you attend a funeral,

It is sad to think that sooner or l—

Ater those you love will do the same for you.

And you may have thought it tragic,

Not to mention other adjec—

Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.


It is appropriate, we feel, that his surname, "lehrer", is the German word for "teacher". He took more pleasure from his work in education than from his work in music, with the exception of his educational songs for children. We cannot do better than ending our tribute to him with his own words:

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while. ®