Brain Trauma Induced by Verbal Abuse: Implications for Child and Elder Abuse Intervention" Ross Blade (2017). Reviewed by Dr Bill Anderson AM. Published by Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Survivors Group Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-64136-782-0

Verbal abuse causes measurable, structural brain damage in children equivalent to the neurological harm of sexual abuse — yet it remains largely unrecognised by the institutions charged with protecting the vulnerable. This paper examines the neuroscience, identifies critical failures in how Australian authorities assess verbal abuse, and makes the case for urgent reform.

The 49 Theses: Against the Subjugation of Women and Girls in Church, State, and Society — Ross Blade (2026). Published by Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Survivors Group Incorporated. ISBN [to be assigned]

Drawing on the words and actions of Jesus as the final test of all Scripture, these 49 theses examine Christian Nationalism's treatment of women and girls across every domain — from bodily autonomy and reproductive coercion to the silencing of abuse survivors, the withholding of knowledge from girls, and the exclusion of women from public life. Each thesis is an invitation to theological engagement: not deference to tradition or authority, but a direct reckoning with the Gospels themselves.

Theological Framing and the Normalisation of Abuse — Ross Blade (2017, reissued 2026). Published by Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Survivors Group Incorporated.

Drawing on neurodevelopmental research and clinical evidence, this paper examines how theological frameworks that counsel endurance of abuse rather than protection from it produce measurable harm — concentrated in children who are already neurologically vulnerable. It traces a documented pathway from theologically-sanctioned silence, through untreated conduct problems, to criminal justice involvement, and argues that where faith communities obstruct early intervention at critical developmental periods, the consequences belong to the theology that produces them.

"When Christian Nationalism Becomes Governance Training: What It Means for Women and for Australia's Future" Ross Blade (2026). Published by Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Survivors Group Incorporated. ABN 54 883 981 332.

Christian nationalism operates not merely as a cultural belief system but as a governing template — one that begins in the household and extends outward to the state, normalising hierarchy, obedience, and coercion as civic virtues. Drawing on neurological research establishing that children exposed to verbal and emotional abuse in the home suffer measurable, structural brain injury, this paper analyses five features of the MAGA-aligned governance model, examines its institutional infrastructure, and asks what it means for Australia when its political figures endorse leaders shaped by that tradition.

These papers examine the hierarchical rhetoric and policy of the Australian conservative and MAGA-aligned right, but the analysis is not partisan — it follows the evidence and would judge any ranking ideology the same way. Its focus is the distance between what such arrangements promise and what they do: protection is invoked, but the costs fall on those the hierarchy subordinates — in particular, women and children.

Blade R. MAGA and the political weaponisation of family. Sydney (NSW): Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Survivors Group Incorporated; 2026 Jun.

Why does a politics that speaks constantly of protecting women so often produce policies that trap them? This essay traces that question from Genesis to Canberra — examining how "family values" rhetoric conceals a model of coercive control, and how that model has now reached Australia through One Nation's borrowed slogans and Tony Abbott's return to Liberal Party leadership. It proposes a simple test for every law and leader who claims the mantle of protection: protection that cannot be refused is not protection. It is control. Fully referenced.