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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