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A Sense of Place Magazine

Dr Bruce Paix. The Rumble Interview.

Yes, jail. Arrested on bogus charges that were later thrown out in court, Bruce was locked up for seven days — all of it in isolation. That was when he first collided with A Sense of Place Magazine. We interviewed him on the same day he was released. To see the...

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Why I Hold Out Hope For Humanity

Reading by Tim Foley: I hold out hope because people aren’t buying the propaganda like they used to. I hold out hope because trust in the imperial media is at an all-time low while our ability to attack and discredit the official narrative is at

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They’re Still Pushing The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza

Reading by Tim Foley: Israel is still pushing for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They keep trying different angles and rebranding it under different names, but the end goal has remained the same since October 2023: the removal of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

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The Din

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone: They’re designing park benchesso that homeless people can’t sleep on themand placing metal spikes beneath overpassesso they can’t be used as shelter. Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn’t existand that sometimes socks go missing in the dryer,wocka wockaha ha hait’s funny because

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AM SELLING AND SIGNING MY BOOK ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AT DYMOCKS CHERMSIDE BRISBANE ON SATURDAY OF THIS WEEK FROM 11am TO 12.30pm. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU. MY CO-AUTHOR NEILL FLORENCE WILL BE WITH ME.

WALK IN THE SPIRIT is a page turning novel about six people of different faiths who are not involved in organised religion but form a team to create a caring and sharing community while encountering bigoted and racist opposition. It is timely given the current war of...

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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...

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A reflection on Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week 2026

It’s Sorry Day and Reconciliation week  and I’m reminded again that language matters. White people tell me this constantly.Use the right language.Tone it down.Be careful how you say it.Be professional.Be strategic.Be calm.Be nice. Because language matters. And yet I keep watching white people use language as a weapon against Aboriginal

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Soccer is just one of four beautiful football codes in Australia

On 24 June 2026, SBS aired a show titled “Wogball: Australia’s Beautiful Game” that highlighted how soccer had become an important part of Australia’s sporting culture despite earlier decades when the sport was seen as a foreign threat to local sporting interests as immigrants from Southern Europe and the Balkans

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Climate chaos: planetary dangers and humanitarian emergency

Human activities such as deforestation, forest fires, mining, industrialized agriculture, the burning of fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, coal), and wars have been threatening nature, civilization, and humans. Those threats weaponize the planet’s temperature. Scientists describe that effect as climate change/climate chaos.Climate change/chaos is global and anthropogenic/artificial. It has been

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The AUKUS spectre

By August I will be 85. I came here 64 years ago on a Colombo Plan Scholarship to what was God’s own country, my childhood imagination inspired by the ever-joyful matronly Methodist missionaries from Southern America. In 1984 Professor Geoffrey Blainey would blast me out of that reverie. Since then,

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New Politics

Is Angus Taylor finished?

There are two answers to the question of whether Angus Taylor is finished. The first is the usual Canberra answer, which is the least interesting. No, he’s not finished in the narrow sense: he’s still Liberal leader, and his deputy still backs him, which is what we’d expect him to

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A new logo won’t save the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party’s latest bout of soul-searching has arrived at a very familiar point: the problem isn’t the packaging, it’s what’s inside the package. Following another round of disastrous opinion poll numbers, senior figures of the Liberal Party are openly discussing a rebrand, with suggestions that the party’s name may

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Starmer’s downfall should be a warning sign for Albanese

Keir Starmer’s resignation as British Prime Minister after just 18 months in office is more than another chapter in the United Kingdom’s revolving-door leadership. It raises a much bigger question for centre-left governments across the democratic world: why do parties elected on promises of transformational change so often end up

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