Subscriber update
Hi friends,
Yesterday I initiated my first paywall, which I’d been planning to do since I first started this Substack. I put a fair bit of thought into it and polled readers a couple of months ago about it. I think paywall models work well in various forms and I subscribe to a number of Substacks that use them, myself. It all made sense.
Then I hit *SEND* and it felt… just not right. I guess I had to try it to find out that the paywall thing is just not me.
This is a community - the sharing of information, the shared making-sense-of-the-world in the comments. I prefer that we do it all together, at the same time. I don’t want paid subscribership to be about access. I’d rather it be about your personal choice to support independent journalism as and when you are able.
To paid subscribers, thank you. This is my main job now, and every paid subscription contributes to my ability to do this.
To all my subscribers, free or paid, thank you for co-creating this community with me.
On that note, I’ve lifted the paywall on yesterday’s post, which you can find below.
To my Australian and New Zealander friends, happy ANZAC day.
International readers, I recommend this explainer by fellow West Australian Substacker ExcessDeathsAU on the history of ANZAC day, explained through a post-peak-pandemic lens.
Rebekah. Massive thanks for your understanding that there are some us, like me, impoverished pensioners that just can't afford any subscriptions. Thank you again for removing your paywall.
I remember an old Keith Laumer tale, a pulp sci-fi thriller called The Wasp. Quite apropos. Although we dissenters have an amoebic, slow 🐌, inchoate consensus forming, and we feel isolated, there really, truly is a shitload of us. We grope towards awareness and determination. Challenge The Narrative everyday. Step up. It is ALL ABOUT Central Bank Digital Currency trackable monopoly money, Digital IDs and STFU. Oz has been HIJACKED by the WEF/WHO/UN/US. Step up. Policy-wise we need to de-corporatise, to nationalise. Let's have our own Currency, backed by OUR resources basket. No Panopticon. No Surveillance Capitalism and 15 minute prisons, I mean cities. Cut pollution, NOT power. ✊️ we gave to change our fate. 👏