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The Lights Are Going Out All Over Australia

The Lights Are Going Out All Over Australia

By Fred Pawle The recent three-day talkfest in Canberra has only confirmed what we already knew: Australia under this government is totally doomed. Being stuck in a windowless room with nerds discussing ways to stimulate an economy is, to normal people, about as exciting as attending a university lecture on heteronormativity with transgender ...
To The Supporters of Cafe Locked Out: A New Book collecting the work of Michael Gray Griffith Coming Soon

To The Supporters of Cafe Locked Out: A New Book collecting the work of Michael Gray Griffith Coming Soon

Australia’s response to the Covid era was the worst in the world, with its insane lockdowns, destructive vaccine mandates and out of control authoritarianism, accompanied by a blizzard of lies from our politicians. So few people stood up to the wave of BS emanating from the government. But some did. And amongst the most gifted of those was Michael ...
The Spirit of Respect

The Spirit of Respect

Jeffery Tucker: Brownstone Institute In 1973, as the bicentennial of the US approached, the great American essayist and illustrator Eric Sloane was commissioned to write a book commemorating what is great about America. He focused on what we once had and might be losing.  He chose this theme because he was unique in understanding the American ...
The Jackboots by Robyn Robins

The Jackboots by Robyn Robins

The latest from A Sense of Place Publishing “If you have a book, you have a friend,” says Robyn.  When a child, she always had her nose in a book and, walked around the playground at school, her nose in a book.  She loved to write fairy stories and plays for children.  The friend she met the first day she started school at the age of six was to ...
Indigenous Bushrangers, Brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor, were hanged in 1901. Their Story.

Indigenous Bushrangers, Brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor, were hanged in 1901. Their Story.

Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. The homicidal actions, flight, capture, trial and punishment of Jimmy and Joe Governor (and their accomplice Jack Underwood) in 1900 are relatively well known. They were immortalised in Thomas ...
Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi ...
The Long Drive

The Long Drive

Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here. It’s like the gods left before they were able to add the mountains and valleys and grand forests. You could hide an entire civilization out here. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla, which you have to climb down cliffs to reach, you can find the mounds of broken shellfish ...

The Lights Are Going Out All Over Australia

The Lights Are Going Out All Over Australia
By Fred Pawle The recent three-day talkfest in Canberra has only confirmed what we already knew: Australia under this government is totally doomed. Being stuck in a windowless room with nerds discussing ways to stimulate an economy is, to normal people, about as exciting as attending a university lecture on heteronormativity with transgender ...

To The Supporters of Cafe Locked Out: A New Book collecting the work of Michael Gray Griffith Coming Soon

To The Supporters of Cafe Locked Out: A New Book collecting the work of Michael Gray Griffith Coming Soon
Australia’s response to the Covid era was the worst in the world, with its insane lockdowns, destructive vaccine mandates and out of control authoritarianism, accompanied by a blizzard of lies from our politicians. So few people stood up to the wave of BS emanating from the government. But some did. And amongst the most gifted of those was Michael ...

The Spirit of Respect

The Spirit of Respect
Jeffery Tucker: Brownstone Institute In 1973, as the bicentennial of the US approached, the great American essayist and illustrator Eric Sloane was commissioned to write a book commemorating what is great about America. He focused on what we once had and might be losing.  He chose this theme because he was unique in understanding the American ...

The Jackboots by Robyn Robins

The Jackboots by Robyn Robins
The latest from A Sense of Place Publishing “If you have a book, you have a friend,” says Robyn.  When a child, she always had her nose in a book and, walked around the playground at school, her nose in a book.  She loved to write fairy stories and plays for children.  The friend she met the first day she started school at the age of six was to ...

Indigenous Bushrangers, Brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor, were hanged in 1901. Their Story.

Indigenous Bushrangers, Brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor, were hanged in 1901. Their Story.
Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. The homicidal actions, flight, capture, trial and punishment of Jimmy and Joe Governor (and their accomplice Jack Underwood) in 1900 are relatively well known. They were immortalised in Thomas ...

Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Your Smartphone is a Parasite
Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi ...

The Long Drive

The Long Drive
Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here. It’s like the gods left before they were able to add the mountains and valleys and grand forests. You could hide an entire civilization out here. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla, which you have to climb down cliffs to reach, you can find the mounds of broken shellfish ...