From a starving runaway searching for purpose on the eclectic streets of Kings Cross, to a renowned journalist gracing the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, to a writer and now publisher of dissident voices, John Stapleton is a gentle yet unique and powerful voice.

We now work together on the Banned Book Company, helping to market these concerned voices.

Also John is a brilliant editor if you have a book you need to have polished before publishing

Join us tonight as he shares his views on what he feels are our most pressing issues.

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A new song: A Question for the Police

They’re raping our daughters

and you’re arresting our grannies

because they’re posting about

how they don’t like their granddaughters

being raped.

You’re threatening to arrest us,

without any charge,

and if we don’t answer your questions

for five years.

you’ll throw us in the clink.

You wear Serve and Protect

on the badges we pay for

But what for? What for,

anymore?

I was there when you first

brought out your new guns

dressed like storm troopers

you shot Matt Lawson

for fun .

You pushed over our old ladies

then sprayed them on the ground.

then arrested a pregnant woman

before filming yourselves, removing her

from her house.

You wear Serve and Protect

on the badges we pay for

But what for? What for,

of what for do you wear it,

anymore?

And none of you have been charged

or even lost your jobs,

I guess that’s the prize

for destroying all we love .

for destroying all we love, Is that the prize?

You’re all that stands

between who we were

and who ever it is that they want us to be.

You’re all that stands .

You are all that stands

You are all that stands between us and Tyranny .

You wear Serve and Protect

on the badges we pay for

But what for? What for,

oh what for do you were it,

anymore?

Constable?

Constable.

Who do you serve anymore.?

Constable?

Hey constable.

Who do you serve anymore.?

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