Avasay is my attempt to create the ultimate in democracy. This website is not only where I am going to have a whinge, but also to encourage everyone else to do so. You will see a lot of polls on this site. To make it as open as possible, everyone can vote. Everyone can leave [...]

This is a thought-provoking piece I found somewhere on the internet which I felt worthy of reproducing here. Any thoughts? All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke Paul E. Marek is a second-generation Canadian, whose grandparents fled Czechoslovakia just prior to the Nazi takeover. [...]

As one who has on several occasions been forced to accept the dole, I know how pitifully inadequate it is to maintain a family. I was of course still very grateful to the taxpayers of Australia to receive it -as well as humbled if not humiliated, in the process. So you might be surprised to [...]

For me it is the prevention of the extinction of the Human race. This requires several actions which can be addressed right now. An end to war. Protection of our habitat. (So obvious it’s almost inconceivable there should be any argument). Making some serious plans to get off this rock (the planet). We have all [...]

One of the great problems with representational government is that some -very necessary- reforms are just never going to happen, and others will take a ridiculously long time. Why? Because in our system, we have career politicians, and they ain’t ever gunna vote themselves out of a job, or vote themselves less money, or vote [...]

As a house owner, and one who fervently believes in the right of every person to own their own home -and start their own business, I am clearly not a socialist. Still, I have to question the sanity of all the valiant fighters against socialism, who defend our current model of free market capitalism. How [...]

At the first suggestion of of a new Government regulation, the clarion cry from capitalists is: “FREEDOM!” This begs the question: Which is the greater freedom? Freedom from exploitation, or the freedom to exploit others without scruple or mercy? It seems fairly well established in the zeitgeist that drug dealers are more morally reprehensible than [...]

In the time of my five decades of life, we have seen such changes. We have seen the Western world take on the monstrosity that is discrimination. We have seen women achieve equal rights, after thousands of years of discrimination. We have seen black people and indigenous people, in Australia and other western countries, finally [...]

After decades of pondering, I have decided to classify myself as a ‘Jesuan’. (I would have preferred ‘Jesuit’, but apparently that has already been taken). Why Jesuan, and not just Christian? Simply because I believe there is a wealth of wisdom in the Gospels, -if you just ignore the crap about gods and angels, Heaven, [...]

G’day. We keep being told what a high standard of living we have. How we have had a ‘boom’ time, through selling minerals to China. How the ‘average’ wage has grown to $58k. The median wage in this country is about $35k. That’s the figure exactly 50% of Australians make less than. Meanwhile, our politicians [...]