Using public library Wi-fi for a week REFUSING TO PAY AN EXTRA PENNY to any grandly titled Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Data-salesman that/ who thinks it fair, sane or ethical to charge a simple writer who actually never watches videos running > 1 minute for 25 G of data in 3 wks flat for ‘oceans’ of coded stinking crap letters, conjunctors & numbers of no use to man, woman or beast.

I am fighting you people AND winning and you bloody well know it.

John (Kangaroo & Eastern global longitudinal hemisphere dude)

Convict testimony and memoirs certainly influenced the chaplain Thomas Beagley Naylor’s writing about Norfolk Island during and after Maconochie’s administration.

Naylor arrived in 1841 soon after Maconochie’s appointment and became a keen supporter of the reformist regime: he declared the mark system and its reform principles to be ‘above all other means the best, if not the only means of uniting the conflicting interests of the criminal and justice.’¹

Ward considered him an able and kind teacher.² Carey suggests Naylor and Maconochie together ‘achieved a kind of spiritual liberation’ for some convicts, although her study does not take much account of the convicts’ writing³

Rob Wills suggests that the musician and surgeon James Aqinas Reid, whom Maconochie employed on Norfolk Island, was also highly involved in convict memoirs.

It was most likely Naylor who strongly influenced the religious tone of many of the Norfolk Island narratives. Both he and the commandant were adept at using print culture to influence public debate, although their interests were sometimes adjacent, rather than perfectly aligned, especially after Maconochie’s 1844 recall.

Naylor used his personal experiences and connections with prisoners to mount an influential print campaign on penal matters in official (and explosive) correspondence, such as his 1845 -1846 letter to Lord Stanley.

Naylor’s letter was titled ‘Norfolk Island, the Botany Bay of Botany Bay,’ evoking a long-standing image of Antipodean moral degradation that is traced in this book through the Revd Richard Johnson and many subsequent writers.

In his polemic, Naylor relocated the locus of moral concern to Norfolk Island in the aftermath of Maconochie’s recall [and especially the inversion of social order that accompanied the subsequent breakdown of authority] under Commandant Major Joseph Childs.

Reports of the proliferation of homosexual activity accompanied this and other accounts, with corrupt colonial officials both profiting from the disorder [and implicated in punitive repression of convict violence and resistance].

..met Mrs Naylor and intercepted her husband’s manuscript, suggesting the ‘extreme impropriety’ of publishing it before bringing it to the attention of the government.

An excerpt from the recently published [The Antipodean Laboratory: making colonial knowledge 1770 – 1870, Anna Johnson Cambridge University Press 2023] brought to all you largely excellent grown-up and ‘blessedly’ as the numpties & plodders of this hideously & spectacularly failing world of ours are wont to c’est\ say – the beneficiaries of a western liberal education in the himantities, arts and social sciences particularly New Millennium #Economics at senior secondary school level.. it is s-o-o good to know you.

Did the mind boggle for you too – or those funny-looking clouds go whooshing across the sky with the eastward rotation of the only terrestrial (or perhaps gallivanting oceanic pirate’s struggling audio-visually represented culture with cast and crews of thousands and mentally/ imaginitively humanly overwhelming Production Values⁴ with reference to two standout contemporary themes in Australian national (not Domestic, m’dears – that as you would all have known for THIRTY ONE years now but for the neoliberal corporate neoclassical crap propaganda mind-boggle censorship regime now become the supercharged “AI” + Dalle 3, 4, 5 et Set Era deskilling or Dumbdown & mass mental health crisis macabre global pantomime Billionaire Mental 11 Year-old Boys Global Command & Control Centre.. means household ⁵.

The second one? Do I really have to reference that “mesanathematic” Mara Dusseldorp pre-modern misanthropic mindfuddle? Well no. It’s my global educational blockdbuster journal and I’ll try if I want to\ 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2.

What next jolly old woozy & affluent Addled & Laid? Australian Local Government councils?? New Zealand???

DEDICATION OF DOCUMENT

Hugh Stretton, briefly my friend after the Rann-Olsen sting because he was at least prepared to discuss his much-lauded though in the terms of the concentric circles economy theorem 1995’s erroneous construction of community as merely a sector that was distinguished from the macro and the microeconomic sectors of what was faddishly called ‘glo-cal’ economy in the same historical period (of Geckoeism), the early 1990s. Also referrred to by the idiot brother of the then federal Treasurer – to me, ‘in black & white, in a letter signed by himself of which by some freak-occurrence of usually fully-predictable Australian Packer-era gangsterism i still possess the original – as the Spiritual Sector.

That was ‘Baptists,’ students.

One wonders what the newly elected Pope Nickelodeon would have to say about that particular piece of whacko reductionist-objectivist-Monist-Animist-primitive Earth-centred solar system Carl Sagan pseudoscience. In fact I recommend very strongly that he urgently speak on the matter because no reasonably well (not by TV) educated young person under the age of 30 is listenening to a word the man has to say presently.

John Blundell

The humanisation century – micro resorce & information goes macro decision-making & human adult relationships ..originally off the ACOSS conference, Sydney, September 1978

¹ cited in Barry, Alexander Maconochie, page 168

² Ward, ‘Diary,’ p 128

³ Carey, Empire of Hell, p169

⁴ the construct Production-values emerged in the deadly Rand Samuelson⁴ᵃ Greenspan Friedman Porter 1990s

⁴ᵃ derided amongst all non performing sealed, delivered and virtually microchip-implanted economists around the world when I first studied #Economics at @Flinders in South Australia – though the school gave us a microeconomics supply & demand monster text which was fit – as North americans say – like a glove to complement Samuelson & Bourlag’s (pesticides headbanger) World-trade Ecocide and Permanent-warfare.. Richard Lipsey.

⁵ VG Childe, Australian, suicide at Katoomba NSW, oekòmenè, 1941 What Happened in History