Watching the Closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympics...then the display by Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Games, brilliant technology...my Chinese wife asks 'Yuhan, why does the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, rise up from the big green garbage bin in the middle of that Japanese flag?'

More from North Korea soon.

There are many things in the world that are far, far much better than they ever were, for sure, especially the way China has driven down human poverty by 20 million people each and every hard year for 20 years now......that means, in real terms, 400 more million people more who are actually doing quite well now...that's astounding! Christianity and Capitalism and Democracy have never ever ever done anything like that in the history of the world...have never improved the common lot of us, but China has done that exactly in 20 simple years. The world is actually getting better, poverty is being eradicated at a faster rate than ever. Is this why we see China as our enemy?

Census Night, Australia, 2016

The Census....Well, I tried eagerly to do it at 8pm, and to do it online as requested...because its much cheaper to have it on line than have actual humans (who you have to pay) having to sort through papers...and couldn't get through. 

That's that for me. Once is enough. I'm happy to do it next time...if they ever work out how to work it out with 'modern technology'.

In Australia we have heard of modern technology...but we just can't have it.

Until then, you don't know me. That's hardly a crime. Australia doesn't know me, I don't know Australia. Same as any day.

I'm sorry but I don't really give a rat's arse that I'm an Australian, nor would I if I was a Syrian. It doesn't matter.

This Australian Census has nothing to do with me or with us.

Olympics: The problem with the young Horton (?) swimmer of Australia's complaints about Sun Yang...I note that China Media (and thats a lot of media) within China is describing Australia as "Great Britain's Continuing Off Shore Prison & Detention Centre so what can you expect from them? These are still not fully evolved people, Australians are their own Nauru. They don't know who they are, as a people, they don't know what they are talking about. They are not professional. They aren't very evolved. We understand this. They sell coal...that's all they know. They are bad sportsmen. They don't know how to be or to do things with other people in the real world. They are happiest with only themselves, alone and isolated...white and weak and scared. They are very poor sportsman and have no notion of respect for themselves or anyone else." Well said, China. We shouldn't fuck with China out of blunt youthful arrogance and ignorance. They fuck back.

Close the gap | James Fitzpatrick | TEDxPerth This is my nephew.

I've done my national duty today in voting in a secret ballot for the Australian Government...I voted for all Greens Party but not to make the country greener...it is too fucking green here in the Far North, it is just too fucking green, and far too fucking natural and the weather is really appalling most of the year...but I voted Greens because they have a policy of treating refugees as actual human beings...a real innovation in the Australian Psychology of Self. I don't think human beings are the brightest or best fruit on the tree of life at all... never have been and never will be... but at least we could treat each other, whilst we are here for a short time, as equals of some temporal worth and at least relative meaning. It is good for us.