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Die Laughing: Fred Pawle On Bill Leak and the State of Australia Today
We sit down with Fred Pawle, one of Australian journalism’s great characters, to discuss his recently updated book Die Laughing: The Wild Life of Bill Leak. Though an ill-fit in corporate journalism, Pawle worked at The Australian for many years as a reporter and...
Scathing Backlash: Australian Labor Party’s Disaster Budget
While you might expect criticism from from their traditional opponents, the Australian Federal Government’s March budget has been met with almost universal condemnation. A country already reeling from the impacts of mass migration and a cost of living crisis is now...
My Angry Breast: The Latest from A Sense of Place Publishing
My Angry Breast tells a personal journey through diagnosis, chemotherapy, mastectomy, and the aftermath of hearing those devastating words: “You have cancer.” Having experienced the trauma of a cancer diagnosis through her father’s final years, Robyn’s passion was to...
Israel Rapes Everyone, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ International flotilla activists say they were subjected to torture and sexual assault by Israeli forces after being abducted in international waters while attempting to bring aid to Gaza. A statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla reports that the IDF held
Podcast/Painting Video: Bastards, Billionaires And Bombs
Caitlin and Tim discuss Itamar Ben-Gvir, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Cuba, capitalist dystopia, and love. Caitlin paints Ben-Gvir. Available in video and audio. Please send us your questions, comments and feedback so we can respond to them in the next episode. __________________ The best way
Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States
Reading by Tim Foley: In a sign that the US is preparing for yet another evil war, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Cuba poses a “national security threat” to the United States, saying the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is “not high”. “Cuba not
ITS TIME TO BUILD COMMUNITIES NOT DIVIDED BY RELIGION.
WALK WITH THE SPIRIT is a page-turning novel about people – Christian, Muslim, Jew, Confucian, Indigenous, LGBTI, Atheist – who try to create a caring and sharing and generous society in the Queensland City of Rockhampton despite the current international war in which...
HAVE SOLD 126 TICKETS TO LAUNCH OF ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’. ROOM CAPACITY IS 140. WILL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU ARE ONE OF FINAL 14.
The launch of WALK IN THE SPIRIT is on Friday 27 March at Noon at the Royal on the Park in Alice Street Brisbane. The 126 who have bought tickets have paid 95 dollars each for a special Uluru Burger with a drink and coffee, as well as a signed book, with the surplus...
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
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It’s not a lie, I just changed my position Your Honour
While Labor’s Federal Budget has copped a lot of flak from investors and potential property buyers including young people it is supposed to help, it may have created a new defence loophole in legal cases it was never designed to influence.Anyone facing charges of perjury for lying in evidence, which
Trump reaches historic agreement with Xi on handling Iran
The meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping this week marks one of the most consequential diplomatic moments of the decade – when the two leaders quietly reached agreement on an issue that has threatened global stability for more than twenty years: preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear
Of trust and trusts
Our existing political elites fundamentally broke trust over the COVID debacle. They panicked, threw the manual out the window, and then used the full power of the state, and state adjacent institutions like universities and media, to impose panic on the whole population and make it compulsory.Now the lies and
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The continuing Budget fallout: A political war over housing and wealth
In this episode of the New Politics podcast, we examine how the debate surrounding the 2026 Budget has quickly moved into a battle over class, aspiration, political power and the future direction of Australian capitalism itself. The Liberal Party has framed Labor’s housing reforms as an “assault on aspiration”, warning
The Royal Commission, Palestine and the clampdown on free speech
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is revealing something much larger than the question of how Australia responds to discrimination. Increasingly, the inquiry is becoming a test of where political dissent begins and ends – particularly when it comes to Israel and Palestine. As governments, media organisations and
Palestine, protest and free speech: The real crisis behind the Royal Commission
What was meant to be a Royal Commission to examine antisemitism and social cohesion in Australia has quickly become much broader and far more politically dangerous: the attempt to recreate the boundaries of acceptable political debate and dissent surrounding Israel, Zionism and the destruction of Palestine.While it was established to