Peter Edmonds

@termx.bsky.social

My 2 favourite books are "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow and "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. Keen interest in history of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Falklands war and the battle of Rourke's Drift.

3-panel comic "Different" by Alex Norris.
1st panel shows a pink blob character saying "I want things to be different".
2nd panel shows the character smashing the room up with a baseball bat, the room contents are in the air.
3rd panel shows the character saying "oh no". The room contents are destroyed and strewn all over the room.

PESHMERGA, this is how the Kurds call their valiant soldiers who for decades have sacrificed themselves in the name of freedom. Those who come face to face with death to defend someone else. From this the term, PESH (front) and MERGA (death).
Alex Pineschi was the first Italian volunteer to have fought Isis in northern Iraq, by that time torn apart by the advance of the Islamic State, alongside the fearless Peshmerga warriors. Alex and his Peshmerga from Task Force Black, the Kurdish Police anti-terrorism unit, faced the Islamic militiamen in their strongholds in Kirkuk and Mosul, freeing hostages and capturing dangerous terrorists, until finally defeating them. Having survived the battle and having come to the end of this bloody war, Alex returns home to face his greatest battle.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B096CXLRLR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 20 May 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 323 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8507403950
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 354 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.06 x 20.32 cm

Table 2 Projected House of Representatives seats by party from https://www.accent-research.com/projects/a-fragmented-electorate showing Matt Canavan's National party getting rekt by One Nation.

Independent candidate flows
Independent candidates are excluded from the ideological model entirely. Their preference flows are highly
individual — a teal community independent in a wealthy urban seat has very different flow patterns from a
rural independent — so they are handled separately with division-specific flow data (see below).
1. Division-specific Independent flows: If the same Independent candidate appeared in the 2025
preference data, we use their actual observed flow pattern. This covers most teal community inde-
pendents who are re-contesting.
2. National Independent averages by context: If no local data exists (e.g. a new independent), we
use the average Independent to party flow rates, drawn from either the “Independent-competitive”
context pool (if another Independent holds ≥10% of the remaining vote) or the “standard” context
pool.
3. Party to Independent flows: When a party candidate is eliminated and an Independent is still in
the count, the flow rate to that Independent is looked up from the 2025 flow data by division and
party family. This is necessarily division-specific since the attractiveness of an independent depends
on who they are.

THE LABOR BLOC
Educated. Urban. Diverse. Renting.
■ Inner and middle-ring metro
■ University-educated
■ Renters and recent buyers under 45
■ First and second-generation migrants
■ Public sector and care economy
■ Dominant with Gen Z and MillenniaIs
■ Women - by a clear margin
Two-party preferred among 18-34s: ALP 71%

THE ONE NATION BLOC
Older. Outer. Mortgaged. Male.
■ Outer-suburban growth corridors and regions
■ Trades, transport, freight. ex-manufacturing
■ Mortgage-stressed Gen-X and Boomers
■ Anglo-skewed, but with rising second-gen migrant support
■ Anti-elite cultural register - not pure ideology
■ Dominant with Gen X and Boomers
■ Men - by a clear margin
Primary vote among Gen-X men: ON 45%

THE COALITION BLOC
Wealthy Older. Anglo. Owned.
■ High-SES established suburbs
■ Sydney North Shore, Melbourne east, bayside
■ University-educated professionals
■ Outright owners and self-funded retirees
■ The investor class
■ Finance, law, corporate management
■ Anglo-Australian, 55+
■ Dominant in no large demographic
Seats won in QLD. WA, SA or TAS: 0

Screenshot of ABC News coverage of the Farrer by-election showing David Farley One Nation on 42.3%

Die in battle, do not despair: the Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley

Paperback - Date of Publication : 15th March 2021 | Edition : Reprint | Size : 234mm x 156mm | ISBN : 9781914059148

Hardback - Date of Publication : 15th May 2015 | Size : 234mm x 156mm | ISBN : 9781910294673

eBook - ISBN : 9781804519172

About 1,600 of the Indians who served on Gallipoli died, in actions at Gurkha Bluff and Hill 60. They took part in terrible, failed attacks, at Gully Ravine and Gully Spur and in the climactic attempt in August to seize the summit of Sari Bair – one of the Gurkhas’ most cherished battle honours. Though commemorated on the great memorial to the missing at Cape Helles (because most Indians’ bodies were cremated or, actually, lost) they are practically invisible on Gallipoli today. The Indian story of Gallipoli has barely been told before. Not only is this the first book about their part in the campaign to be published in the century since 1915, but it also tells their story in new and unexpected ways. Though inescapably drawing on records created by the force’s British officers, it strives to recapture the experience of the formerly anonymous sepoys, gunners and drivers, introducing Indians of note – Mit Singh, Gambirsing Pun, Kulbahadur Gurung, and Jan Mohamed – alongside the more familiar British figures such as Cecil Allanson, who led his Gurkhas to the crest of Sari Bair at dawn on 9 August 1915. It explores for the first time the remarkably positive relationship that grew on Gallipoli between Indians and Anzacs, and includes a complete list of the Indian Army dead commemorated on the Helles Memorial on Gallipoli. Professor Peter Stanley, one of Australia’s most distinguished military social historians, has drawn on an extensive range of unpublished evidence, including official and private records in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and India to tell the story of the Indian experience of Gallipoli that has waited a century to be told.

A smiling cartoon dog sits at a table, coffee mug on hand, as a room goes up in flames. "Yeah nah, she'll be right" the dog assures himself.

Old school gyros plate from the OG of Greek food in the northern suburbs, Lamb's Northcote.

Crispy chips with just the right amount of salt, salad drenched in white vinegar, tzatziki like your yaya used to make. Deliciously cooked lamb and chicken. Outstanding!

Front cover of Kevin M. Levin's new book "A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw".

A vivid new portrait of one of the Union cause’s great martyrs

Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—one of the first regiments of Black soldiers in the Civil War—in its famous ill-fated charge against Confederate Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. Shaw’s sacrifice has been commemorated in monuments, books, and the award-winning film Glory. But before he became a martyr for the Union cause and emancipation, Shaw was a privileged young man who showed little interest in the reform movements that defined his parents' lives or in the moral crisis over slavery that was tearing the nation apart. Volunteering to serve as a duty, he awakened gradually and fitfully to the demands of conscience and command. Only in death was Shaw transformed into the champion for freedom his abolitionist parents hoped he would be.

The first biography of Shaw in a quarter century, A Glorious Fate traces his transformation from a rebellious son into one of the Civil War’s most celebrated heroes. Acclaimed historian Kevin M. Levin also reveals the sacrifice and service of the African American men who fought and died for their freedom afresh through Shaw’s eyes. Though Shaw never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices, Levin shows how the Civil War changed the young colonel as it did the nation.

Order from https://uncpress.org/9781469697178/a-glorious-fate/

Published by The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 9781469697178 | 320 Pages, 6.12 × 9.25 in, 28 halftones, notes, bibl., index
Publication date: September 29, 2026

The Australian Financial Review/Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll for 23rd to 27th March 2026, showing primary votes of 32% Labor, 29% One Nation, 17% Liberal, 13% Green, 9% Other.

Leader favourability: Angus Taylor +19/-22, Matt Canavan -14/+17, Pauline Hanson +40/-43, Albanese +29/-46, Donald Trump +15/-70

Two party preferred vote:
Labor 54% / Coalition 47%
Labor 53% / One Nation 47%

Preferred PM:
Albanese 33%
Taylor 14%
Hanson 23%
Neither / Unsure 30%

Sample of 1003 voters
Margin of error +/- 3.5%
Respondent preferences
Survey conducted March 23-27 2026

Tenderloin steak with peppercorn sauce cooked perfectly medium rare at Chifley's Bar and Grill, Hotel Kurrajong Canberra.

Page 101 of Paul Davey's "Joh for PM" book.

Photo of page 71 of Paul Davey's "Joh for PM" book. ISBN 9781742234335

$Revolutionary Warfare How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency by Terrence G. Peterson Format Hardcover$46.95 eBook$32.99 Add to cart Revolutionary Warfare investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary. The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. By tracing how French generals, officers, and civil officials sought to counter Algerian independence with their own project of radical social transformation, Terrence G. Peterson reveals that the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern warfare. The French war effort was never defined solely by repression. As Peterson details, it also sought to fashion new forms of surveillance and social control that could capture the loyalty of Algerians and transform Algerian society. Hygiene and medical aid efforts, youth sports and education programs, and psychological warfare campaigns all attempted to remake Algerian social structures and bind them more closely to the French state. In tracing the emergence of such programs, Peterson reframes the French war effort as a project of armed social reform that sought not to preserve colonial rule unchanged, but to revolutionize it in order to preserve it against the global challenges of decolonization. Revolutionary Warfare demonstrates how French officers' efforts to transform warfare into an exercise in social engineering not only shaped how the Algerian War unfolded from its earliest months, but also helped to forge a paradigm of warfare that dominated strategic thinking during the Cold War and after: counterinsurgency. ISBN13: 9781501776960 Publication date: 09/15/2024 Pages: 240 Illustrations: 10 b&w halftones, 4 maps Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0 in$