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

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THE MORELAND FORUM

Democracy in the seat of Brunswick would be music to my ears. (Playing The Boys of Bluehill With Sean Kenan at The Rock)

With the federal election engulfing the community we'll wait a couple of weeks before holding our first meeting. Please send an email - with your details - if you are interested in attending.

philcleary@bigpond.com

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ANDY IRVINE AT THE CLARE CASTLE CARLTON - 6 MAY 2010

Another brilliant virtuoso performance from the master

To SEE A SHORT CLIP OF Andy at the Clare CLICK HERE

Email me on:

philcleary@bigpond.com

Come with me, Kevin Sheedy and Dean Rioli to the Tiwi Islands...2008 grand final READ ON>>>>

 

TUPPENCE MORAN, YOU ASK?

Mincha Street where Judy Moran allegedly left the getaway car after the murder of Tuppence Moran... READ ON>>>>

UNDERBELLY

MY BAD NIGHT WITH JASON MORAN

The pub where Jason Moran bit off an ear READ ON>

UNDERBELLY

Brian Kane and able to kill

Crevelli Steet, Reservoir, where the Kanes lived...READ ON>>>>.

 

VFL PHOTO GALLERY

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Ben Cousins comes to Coburg

The shirtfront has had its day

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WAYNE CAREY

For those who wonder how I could criticise Andrew Denton for his Enough Rope interview with Wayne Carey last year.....READ ON>>>>

CRONULLA RUGBY LEAGUE - THE SAME OLD STORY

MISOGYNY AND POWER AT WORK -READ ON>>>>>

VFA HIGHLIGHTS

The greatest VFA goal...David Fisher..1979.. CLICK HERE

PHIL CLEARY on fire in the 1979 VFA GF...CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO>>

The Coburg Initiative to destroy the Coburg Football Ground.READ ON>>>>>

The Coburg premiership boys of 1926. History means little to the modern land grabber or bureaucrat.

Go to the VFL Home PAGE for more VIDEO blasts from the VFA past

For more information and reviews of recent speaking engagements: GO TO>>>

Bridget Cleary....Are you a witch?

I visited Drangan again in 2007 and heard some rare stories from Patrick Power and others about the 1895 murder.. READ ON>>>>

And go to my YOUTUBE site to see the doco

http://au.youtube.com/PhilClearyMP

WHITE RIBBON DAY

Stop the violence

READ ON>>>>

Time for an Office of Women’s Safety

The trial of Leigh Robinson for the shotgun murder of his estranged girlfriend Tracey Greenbury

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BRITT LAPTHORNE ...

A sad end to a young woman's life in Dubrovnik. Another tale of violence against women?

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Phil Cleary's view on Australian politics, people, vfl and afl football, music, history and literature
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BOB HAWKE'S LOVE AFFAIR - WITH WHOM

No, not with me. That's us in discussion after the 1988 VFA grand final, which we won at Essendon's Windy Hill.

My lettter published in the Australian on 17 July 2010:

Blanching at the idolatry
 
Amid the postulating about whether Bob Hawke or Paul Keating was the greatest, one sobering event has been ignored. After Hawke was banished by Keating in 1991 the punters who supposedly adored him voted independent in the 1992 by-election and 1993 election for his old seat of Wills. In fact voters sent more primary votes my way than to the ALP in 1992. The lesson surely, is that ‘ordinary’ people are not so beholden to idolatry as to be incapable of turning their backs on supposedly god-like politicians.
 
The ‘two bulls in the paddock’ were career politicians in a power struggle, not gallant soldiers risking their lives, as author Blanche d’Alpuget romantically implies when she says ‘ they would fight until their legs and arms come off’. Blanche’s rarefying of political squabbles is as sad as it is unnecessary. As the punters discovered when Prime Minister Hawke appeared in the rooms after Coburg’s VFA premiership win in 1988, no one could charm like the silver budgie. And as anyone who watched Keating during the Mabo debates knew, his working class origins were no impediment to sophistication of thought and vision. If only it was the quality of a Prime Minister’s ideas and character, rather than their capacity to win a power struggle that set tongues wagging!

READ ON>>>>>

And Paul Keating? Read On>>>>>.

 

MARCH 2010

DEFAMATION CASE WIN FOR DYSON HORE-LACY

Getting away with murder

'A man who has written well on this issue is Phil Cleary. I refer honourable senators to his book about the murder of his sister .

Former senator Natasha Stott-Despoja - Senate 2004

Listening to the words of Julian Burnside - Mr Hore-Lacy's counsel - during the trial you'd never have believed Natasha's words. From start to finish I was portrayed as an angry man. Criticising the criminal justice system clearly comes at a price... READ ON >>>>

Having a lark with Mum (courtesy of The Age) after the verdict.

I want to thank Sue Hines from Allen and Unwin and those people, not least Mary, Sarah and Rhonda from the Victorian Women's Trust, Adrian, Jane, Brian, Chris, my family and everyone else who offered moral support in and out of court.

CLICK HERE to listen to a reading from the book.

MOVIES COME TO

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GO TO

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TONY ABBOTT'S COUP

Idealism or plain cunning

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Irish legend Christy Moore treats me to a song in Castlebar in 1996.. CLICK HERE

 

My 2002 book about Vicki's murder. See literature section.

THE MURDER OF VICKI CLEARY READ ON>>>

Justice GEORGE HAMPEL. .READ ON>>>-

The book is out of print but you can find it online at:

www.Ebooks.com

CLICK HERE FOR A READING FROM JUST ANOTHER LITTLE MURDER

 

At Carey Grammar in 2008

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SPEAKING INDEPENDENTLY

PHIL CLEARY ... evocative and powerful address... most inspiring speaker who engaged our staff with a wide range of thought-provoking, real life anecdotes....

Phil has a unique and wonderful talent for engaging with people. He certainly brought our curriculum day alive....

HENRY GROSSEK

PRINCIPAL, BERWICK LODGE PRIMARY SCHOOL 2005

An Irish Ambush in 1921

The Irish speaking Donncadh OhAnnigan - son of Nora Cleary - of Anglesboro..... led the ambush at Dromkeen...READ ON >>>>

To see how the 1921 Dromkeen Ambush unfolded go to: http://au.youtube.com/PhilClearyMP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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