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    • Sep 20
    • 3 min

    Extract from Issue 10 the LOCAL Cranky Lizard

    The words below are matters of opinion. No express criticism is implied or directed at the Queensland Police Service, any particular...
    • May 3
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. Cranky Lizard is and has been an observer of the human condition for several years. For a...
    • Apr 5
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    When Cranky Lizard began this adventure some years ago, it was clearly stated that public pomposity, public arrogance and incompetence...
    • Mar 7
    • 3 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks

    When the Barbarians are at the Gates: Toxic Masculinity is welcome…. And so, the priorities of this weird world of Western Democracies...
    Cranky Lizard speaks…
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 4 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    When politics loses its dignity… In a Parliamentary Democracy, functioning under the rule of law, such as Australia and its sovereign...
    • Aug 23, 2021
    • 6 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    We are not really all in this together…State Premiers say that we are… we are not! Cranky Lizard reckons, however, that there are a...
    • Jul 27, 2021
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    AUSTRALIA: Burdened with arrogant, self-serving systems of government almost totally unsuitable to the current political demands of a...
    Cranky Lizard speaks… July 2021…
    • Jun 29, 2021
    • 2 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks… July 2021…

    Cranky Lizard does not have much to say about events in this Nation this month; except this… The continuing media obsession with the...
    Thinking of Living in a Manufactured Home Park?
    • Jun 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Thinking of Living in a Manufactured Home Park?

    Development of manufactured homes (MH) and residential parks is increasingly becoming a lucrative venture for Queensland property...
    • Apr 7, 2021
    • 4 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks… April 2021

    YOU KNOW YOU ARE ANNOYING THEM WHEN THEY RESORT TO PERSONAL ABUSE. Cranky Lizard has been writing about politics and current affairs for...
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 5 min

    A couple of things to think about… DO WE STILL NEED OUR STATES? And AUSTRALIA DAY…Oh Dear?

    Let us deal with Australia Day first. Cranky Lizard has created a list of the days set aside for all Australians to contemplate our...
    • Jan 12, 2021
    • 4 min

    “ Quelle que soit la question – la response est non !! “

    Australia is now paying for 30 years of infantilising social engineering – Steve Waterson – The Australian-20/12/2020. Cranky Lizard...
    • Dec 16, 2020
    • 4 min

    December 2020. The end of a fairly shocking year…Hasta La Vista…2020!

    On 01 January 2020, if someone had said to you that this year would be a year that will rip the fabric out of our lives and change the...
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Queensland State General Election… Pandemic Politics = The Sludge still sloshes about…

    It is a rare moment to hear an elected State Premier speak the words…” I don’t make these decisions! “ To her shame, Premier Palachuzk...
    • Sep 22, 2020
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks… September/October 2020.

    Pandemic politics =The Sludge at the bottom of the barrel. Be aware: this article contains opinions from Cranky Lizard about this...
    • Jul 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    "Demos "– "Kratos "– "Oh wherefore art thou?"

    [ Apologies to William Shakespeare.] [ Cranky Lizard acknowledges The Australian Inquirer, July 11, 2020, Author Peter Baldwin, A...
    • Jun 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    WHO SAID WE CAN’T DISCUSS THIS ISSUE IN THE LOCAL PAPER?

    IT EFFECTS ALL OF US… AND WE ARE PAYING FOR IT… SO, WE SHALL DISCUSS THE FACTS SURROUNDING THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS : “ BLACK LIVES MATTER...
    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    A STATE GOVERNMENT WITH THE 'SPEED WOBBLES' Cranky Lizard believes that no political party should gain any advantage, or bear any loss...
    • May 7, 2020
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks…

    May 2020. Well…What the Hell can I do ?? For various reasons, all of which are important, Cranky Lizard has fielded numerous enquiries...
    • Apr 7, 2020
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks… Pandemic April 2020.

    ranky Lizard speaks… Pandemic April 2020. WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE WHEN IT IS OVER…? [ Cranky Lizard has referred to a number of sources...
    • Mar 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Truth in Politics….What does it say about Candidates?

    It is unusual for Cranky Lizard to throw more than one contribution into the mix in each edition of The Local Paper. Most unusual. In...
    • Mar 10, 2020
    • 6 min

    IDENTITY POLITICS IS CORRUPTING THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY BY FEEDING THE RADICALISM OF AUSTRALIAN POL

    [ Cranky Lizard acknowledges the Wall Street Journal article published on 16 February 2020 from which material has been drawn for this...
    • Feb 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    Who Owns Rain Water?

    Australia is a parched continent. And, it has been that way for a very, very long time because regular rainfall on this continent is...
    • Jan 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    Bush Fires – What a bloody Shame?

    Bush Fires – What a bloody Shame? It is with deep respect and sadness that Cranky Lizard dedicates this article to three firefighters who...
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 5 min

    AUSTRALIANS.

    Cranky Lizard travelled, as part of regular life, to Western Queensland on several occasions in the past few months. While there, and...
    • Nov 20, 2019
    • 6 min

    Cranky Lizard Speaks…

    [ Cranky Lizard does not whinge. There are some questions to be asked, as indeed, they are being asked in other press forums; and we, as...
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 6 min

    Trying to make sense of climate change discussions [ if you can call them that ! ] in our Community.

    If they believed in a God, they would be on their knees giving constant prayers of thanks for the continuing drought – because the...
    • Sep 24, 2019
    • 3 min

    Cranky Lizard Speaks

    Cranky Lizard Speaks... Just to kick things off on the right level – Cranky Lizard is well aware of matters that are unfolding at the...
    • Aug 28, 2019
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard speaks of Drought…

    Drought does not attack you like wildfire. Drought does not thunder along a dry riverbed smashing your flood gates into the next State....
    • Jul 31, 2019
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard Speaks - A Referendum to change our National Constitution…Again??

    August 2019 So, here we go again — this is about Aboriginal people in Australia having a voice. Before any further comments; I place...
    • Jun 5, 2019
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard June

    Hello, it is a nice feeling to be back in Queensland after a couple of months away in other States. Well…wasn’t that a ripper ? An Editor...
    • Mar 13, 2019
    • 6 min

    Millennial Socialism = The Energy and Assertiveness of Restless Youth.

    Millennial Socialism = The Energy and Assertiveness of Restless Youth. Cranky Lizard remembers growing up in the Australian Outback on a...
    • Feb 12, 2019
    • 5 min

    THE GRAND INQUISITION OF A NATION…AND A FEW OTHER BLOODY THINGS !!

    [ Cranky Lizard acknowledges the outstanding paper prepared on these matters by Neil Laurie, the Deputy Clerk and the Clerk of Committees...
    • Dec 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Don’t lose the plot at Christmas.

    There are three aspects of Christmas in our Australian lifestyle. One is the religious imperative which is the foundation of the...
    • Nov 21, 2018
    • 5 min

    Everybody is Shouting – Nobody is listening.

    December 2018. The last two publications of Cranky Lizard’s words have generated some interesting and worthwhile comments on the whole...
    • Oct 28, 2018
    • 5 min

    Cranky Lizard Speaks

    Our National Values – Trashing our National Heritage – for What?? When Cranky Lizard began this adventure, some twelve months ago, a...
    • Sep 22, 2018
    • 5 min

    Golliwogs…By Golly …and other Assorted Weirdness

    [ This is an opinion of Cranky Lizard – no other person or persons –it is a magnificently courageous expose of the political correctness...
    • Aug 26, 2018
    • 4 min

    Cranky Lizard Speaks: Fascism's Genesis - in Australia? No - Couldn't Be!

    This perverted political trollop slimed onto the human stage in Europe, Italy in fact, during the early 1930’s. It’s symbol, for the...
    • Jul 2, 2018
    • 4 min

    The Truth in our Public Life.

    The Truth is defined as: “ That which is true by fact or reality. “ Most sensible people look at this and accept the statement as...
    • Jun 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    Cranky Lizard - June 2018

    Cranky Lizard does not have much to say this month. Having allegiance to our Sovereign State of The Commonwealth of Australia. A matter...
    • May 5, 2018
    • 5 min

    The Changing of History

    In recent weeks, Cranky Lizard’s attention has been captured by the public comments and media debate about the changing of history. “...

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