It's hard to believe it's 30 years since Green Left began. I remember in the early days, what a shot to the mainstream media, the arrival of this new newspaper was. There was much from the usual suspects. And the main message from them was, you know, it won't last. It won't last. It's not viable. How can they? I mean, they've just got all these people handing it around and sending it to people. It's not dependent on corporate advertising. How can it possibly last? Well, of course, at ridiculous, because Green Left has not only lasted. But it's played such a vital role in what is so often misnamed as the free press. I mean, it's one of those free press. It's one of those terms that is so abused that Green Left represents the truly free press in this country. Because in that 30 years, a great deal has happened to what we, another misnomer, what we call the mainstream media. I started in the mainstream media and I've spent all my career, I suppose, in the mainstream media. And what in that time, in the 30 years, extraordinary changes have happened. There used to be spaces in the mainstream media. Very small spaces, but there were spaces for the likes of me or other reporters who were considered mavericks, who were dissenters, all the terms, the left wingers, was the usual term. I was very pleased that they call me that, but that was usually a term of derision. But there were the spaces, Robert Fisk, see more hurt and others, certainly in Australia as well. Those spaces have closed. They've gone. The mainstream media have shut down. It is now one echo chamber of propaganda representing something it always did. It always represented the establishment. We know that. But now it's propaganda is quite virulent. And that makes Green Left weekly so important. Of course, the true free press, the true open space, is in a free newspaper like Green Left. That's why Green Left is place in Australia. It is almost historic. And all I can say is that I'm terribly proud. The Associated with Green Left to be able to do this endorsement. And I salute all the comrades who make it happen. Issue after issue. Congratulations.