Phil Cleary's view on Australian politics, people, vfl and afl football, music, history and literaturePhil Cleary's view on Australian politics, people, vfl and afl football, music, history and literature
Phil Cleary's view on Australian politics, people, vfl and afl football, music, history and literature Phil Cleary's view on Australian politics, people, vfl and afl football, music, history and literature

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Phil Cleary

Former teacher, independent member of the Australian Parliament, footballer and author.

End the materialist scourge

Bring on Boxing Day

Yes, I was taught by the christain brothers but it did not produce a love of god. As some already know Brother Weston 's sexual assault of classmates in 1964/65 was a shameful part of St Joe's history (Pascoe Vale). How ironic that my great uncle, the Irish rebel Dinny Cleary should have fought for the Pope against Garibaldi in 1860.

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In 1977 I took this photo of my brother Perry in Rome's Plaza de San Pedro Vaticano. One day I am going to ask the Pope 's people whether they have any information about Dinny and whether my greatgrandfather John joined his brother in Italy. It was their belief that Garibaldi was part of an anti-Catholic plot!

Let's hope the Pope reminds people that Christmas is more than plastic carols and unbridled consumerism.

 

Time for Ned Kelly to go home to Greta

What better place for Ned Kelly to be laid to rest than alongside the fifth member of the gang, his cousin Tom Lloyd in the Greta cemetery. The police have a point in objecting to a monument but who can deny that Ned was a social bandit taking on a corrupt state where pastoralists ruled the land?

Just listen to some of Ned's words.
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A day at Carey Grammar

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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''NO EASTERN KINGS CAME

BEARING GIFTS''

GO MOVE SHIFT

'The local Christian said to me, You'll lower the price of property,You'd better get born in some place else, Move along, get along, go, move, shift', Ewan MacColl.

Christy Moore tells of a picket in Galway where local people were demanding travellers move and simultaneously saying the rosary.

I was reminded of the great and late socialist songwriter's ode to the travelling people when I came upon this gypsy wagon in Ireland in 1994. A girl can be seen on the left. Ewan died at the height of Thatcherism, an ideology he detested. Meryl Streep should have looked him up before falling for the line about Thatcher being '' a woman of conviction''.

Remembering the Irish famine girls in Williamstown in 2011

With Sean Kenan at the Famine Rock

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How to stop the killing and pillorying of women

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Ceremony to commemorate O'Hannigan's fight against British imperialism in Ireland.

Donncadh O'Hannigan

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West Coburg under-18s
EDFL Premiers 2011 at Windy Hill
Just like those glorious back to back flags at Coburg flags in 1988/89

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Sharing a moment with the independents in 2010.

 

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