Peter Frank Thompson Writes

Success Secrets 01

One of the best ways to assert your dominance in an organisation – as long as you are far enough up the hierarchy – is to have a reorganisation in which you make perfectly competent and able people reapply for the jobs they are currently doing spectacularly well. The more integral and essential they are…

March 19, 2018
On “elite”

Recently, our Prime Minister started referring to media such as the ABC as “elite media”. Now, what does the word “elite” do? First, let’s look at the definition. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning of the adjective as: “Of or belonging to an elite; exclusive”. And the noun – the elite – is:…

November 19, 2016
On “Border Force”

Once upon a time Australia used to have a Federal Government department called something like “Department of Customs and Immigration” … something like that. It’s now called the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Of particular interest, with respect to the use of language, is the language around “borders”. One of the agencies in the…

November 19, 2016
On “Team Straya”

The gentry of Team Straya now have their Titles back ’cause our anglophile PM thought it was so slack that there was no noticeable remnant of medieval tradition for the entitled to further aggrandise their position. “The Age of Entitlement is gone”, we have been told by the Lord Chamberlain so big, certain and bold;…

January 10, 2015
Tribute to Our Times

A choking pall oozes across this once proud land, emanating from the tightening grip of a vitriolic hand extending from a soul poisoned and obsessed with revenge and rending the fabric of civility, leading to an ignoble end. Whatever it was that was fair, honourable and humane, of those sustaining qualities little will remain when…

November 7, 2014
On beliefs

Here is a link to the recently PhD thesis. (Despite the watermark, the thesis is no longer under examination. It was examined and passed with two As on first reading.) Interdisciplinary approach to belief formation

September 15, 2014
The Leader

Don’t bother me with facts or evidence today, They too inconveniently get in the way of my desired plans and grandiose schemes that I pluck from fantasy and wild day dreams. It’s important to remember that I’m Prime Minister, I’ve worked all my life to become Your Leader, I went to the vote and passed…

September 15, 2014
Light after Dark

It may be cliché to say light follows the darkness, but still it’s a truth to which we can harken. When greed and self-interest steal the narrative, it’s time for the light to become active. Ignorance and poverty are powerful weapons that keep the suppressed from learning the lessons that create opportunity that is equal…

September 15, 2014
The Last Bird

8 June 2014 A sunset so brilliant was never seen except in times so long in the past that none had arisen who could have been witness to the splendour of the cosmic blast whence came the rock from which we crawled. Once we crawled we grew in numbers and walked across lands we overthrew…

September 15, 2014