Simon Chapman AO

Reading Ernest Shackleton's account of his 1914-17 Antarctic jouney on the Endurance then on foot. Just astonishing perseverance, horrors, guts. Here's the ad he placed in NZ newspaper looking for crew. 28 joined

Tobacco and smoking - Tobacco closure orders register View the NSW register of premises issued closure orders under the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008 for illicit tobacco, illegal vaping, or unlicensed sales.

NSW moves up a gear in illegal tobacco shop closures: 74 and growing weekly. www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Page...

Policy incoherence: Leadership needed to combat illicit tobacco and end tobacco oversupply

This review of the national dogs' breakfast of illicit tobacco policy, practice is salutary. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Australia takes off the gloves on illegal tobacco while ‘lower the tax’ fantasists plumb new absurdities Australia’s epidemic of illicit (untaxed) cheap cigarette shops is entering a new phase as Australian Border Force reports record seizures and three states (South Australia, Queensland and New Sout…

Big Tobacco's acolytes ramping up "lower tobacco tax" in run-up to budget. If ALL tobacco tax was scrapped, illegal (untaxed) tobacco would still be MUCH cheaper than illegal smokes. Serious enforcement (on-the-spot closures) as in Qld, SA & lately NSW is obvious simonchapman6.com/2025/12/09/a...

The Year that Made Me: Marianne Jauncey, 1998 - ABC listen Dr Marianne Jauncey works with people many in society dismiss as “lost causes” — drug users in Kings Cross, in inner-city Sydney. But far from acting the martyr, she approaches her work and her client...

Julian Morrow's interview with Kings X safe injecting room veteran Marianne Jauncey. Take 36m to listen to this exceptional, extraordinary woman with values the world needs so muchj www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Back to the future

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Taylor's policy tardis seems to have quickly landed in 1854 where conservatives at The Times defended the right to have your own dungheap outside your house and cursed those health nannies who wanted them swept away

One hundred and fifty ways the nanny state is good for us In Australia, anyone who supports rules and regulations that make products safer or improve public health can expect to come under attack from critics arguing they’re restricting freedom and turning t...

Angus Taylor straight out of the Trumpian blocks with predictable promise to get rid of the nanny state. Here are 150 ways the nanny state is good for our health. Please use it as a checklist Angus & tell us all which ones you'll be shredding theconversation.com/one-hundred-...

Readers or royalties? why now I make my books open access [Updated 16 Fed, 2026] I wrote my first book in 1983. It was a small manual of tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry’s promotional strategies, described by a tobacco industry snoop at the …

Readers or royalties? Why I've made my last 8 books open access (free) @bookshelfie.bsky.social simonchapman6.com/2018/12/12/r...

Just renewed my Oz passport: $422 ($42/year). Germany ($12/y), Korea ($6), Brazil ($2). This monopoly has got to be a total racket. All done on-line so SFA o'heads. Prices Surveillance Authority -- pls do you job. www.comparethemarket.com.au/travel-insur...

With power from rooftop + big solar & wind at record levels in Australia, we wake this morning hearing about the big spanking new Liberal policy: nuclear.

“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Very clever

Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia Food and health ministers vote to mandate the ratings system after years of urging from peak health bodies

Goliath packaged food industry loses 12y battle to keep farce of voluntary star labelling with big win to public health Davids like @georgeinstitute.bsky.social @alikjones.bsky.social Jane Martin. Kudos! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

With the football World Cup months away, can we start a national movement to purge mention of the odious Sarah Moaney from all broadcasts? Bring back Sera Money!

Simon Chapman AO: A lifetime of public health advocacy A look at Simon Chapman's five decades of public health advocacy, exposing industry influence and championing evidence-driven social change. Download his new book.

Memoir of my 50yrs in public health research & advocacy. #Tobacco #GunControl #WindFarms #advocacy #Heresies #RhinoHide Free open access link in this review www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Simon Chapman AO: A lifetime of public health advocacy A look at Simon Chapman's five decades of public health advocacy, exposing industry influence and championing evidence-driven social change. Download his new book.

Memoir of my 50yrs in public health research & advocacy. #Tobacco #GunControl #WindFarms #advocacy #Heresies #RhinoHide Free open access link in this review www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

If you are like me & into Fully Certified Necrotic Rock, you won't want to miss "The Everly Brothers" playing Sydney this year . Phil died in 2015, Don in 2021. Too much excitement

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

I’m Jewish. I live in Bondi. But I take no comfort from Herzog’s visit Not all Jews welcome the arrival of Israel’s president in Australia. I am one who believes he will divide us at a time we need cohesion. It is the type of position that has cost me friends.

Powerful piece from Jewish David Leser, on why he takesno comfort from Herzog's visit, www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...

Latest from NSW Health on illegal cig/vape shop closures & seizures

The Obamas v the Trumps. Let us count the ways. Exhibit 1 for the Obamas

Historic trade deal rejects Trump’s chaotic protectionism – Asian Media Report The mother of all trade deals to America’s new defence strategy, the dismissal of a PLA princeling, Prabowo’s Peace Board support, ASEAN’s rejection of Myanmar junta’s poll victory and the deadly seri...

India & EU sign massive free trade deal in a huge 'up yours' to Trump's protectionism. This was inevitable. When China does likewise, Trump will look like the economic illiterate he is. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

Tobacco and smoking - Tobacco closure orders register View the NSW register of premises issued closure orders under the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008 for illicit tobacco, illegal vaping, or unlicensed sales.

NSW Health has now closed 66 illegal tobacconists, seized stock for 3 months since law reforms kicked in Oct '25. Four recent ones in the Newtown/Enmore area where it's wall-to-wall. Many more to come. Xmas holidays & Bondi police duty diversion slowed things www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Page...

"That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking....power is in our ability to think with each other"

Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:

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Australian Border Force now intercepting industrial levels of illicit tobacco & vapes. This www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-sub...

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

The world has now had it confirmed that Washington Post has lost its mantle as a "great newspaper". With this decision, it marks itself as a political lickspittle to the darkest forces determined to put self-interest ahead of global health