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Fat Daddy: Three Broken Families, One Broken System
Hear the author live. P. Collo joins us for a conversation at 9:30am AEST today. Listen live via Café Locked Out on Rumble, Facebook, and X. The recording will be embedded here afterward. Signed copies will also be made available through Café Locked Out’s Banned Books...
The Welcome Wears Thin: Australia’s Mass Immigration Outruns Cohesion
There is no hotter issue in Australia today than mass migration. The public sentiment has soured dramatically. A once reasonably successful immigrant nation has become hostile to strangers, and the divide between the nation’s political elites and the average citizen...
Record Insolvencies: Australia’s Businesses and Households Crumble
Australian businesses are closing at rates that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and the human cost is spreading into personal bankruptcies and late payments that signal more pain ahead. Official figures show 14,153 companies entered external...
Military-Industrial Complex Assures Investors That Wars Will Be Endless, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Today in dystopia, the military-industrial complex is reassuring investors that the wars will indeed be endless. Asked about concerns over falling defense stocks in a recent interview on CNBC, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet replied, “Investors need to know
ALL Art Is Political When You Live In A Genocidal Dystopia
Video reading by Tim Foley: During a speech at the Las Vegas Sphere on Saturday, Metallica frontman James Hetfield took aim at artists like Macklemore for making political statements about the genocide in Gaza during their concerts. “I just gotta say, Metallica is not here,
New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Plutocrats Will Not Lead Us Into A Healthy Future
The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of Jeff Bezos. It says so much about how diseased our society has become that the most revered and respected among us are emotionally stunted man-babies
LIFE HAS BEEN KIND TO ME. MY CHARITY WALK AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS AN EXPRESSION OF MY THANKS FOR 10 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS.
Here are reasons why Monday, 5 October, 2026 will be a day of nostalgia. *I celebrate my 95th birthday. *Helen and I will enjoy the experience of walking eleven kilometres around Uluru, the spiritual heart of Australia. *We will raise 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a...
MY 95TH BIRTHDAY WALK OF 11 KILOMETRES AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS ONLY DAYS AWAY. PLEASE SPONSOR ME RIGHT NOW. HUGE THANKS.
I intend to raise at least 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a small charity I founded 15 years ago that makes direct financial grants into bank accounts of people in crisis situations anywhere in Australia. Last year we made 63 grants of $1000 each. Will be great if...
PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.
The portrait of me was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church. On my 95th I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can...
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Males accused of violence are typically treated more harshly than their female counterparts
The public is rightly revolted by violence, especially where it occurs in the home or where children, innocent people, or vulnerable partners are victims. That said, officialdom, the media and the public do seem too often to react differently, depending on whether the alleged perpetrator is male or female. Domestic
Testing ASEAN’s resilience amid the global debt surge
Amid increasingly uncertain global geopolitics and security, the global geoeconomic landscape is becoming increasingly complex. Most recently, the IMF Global Debt Database stated that total global debt (combined government and private debt) reached around US$251 trillion in 2024, or slightly above 235% of global GDP. Of this amount, public debt
Forget AI: offshoring is the real threat to Australian jobs
Australians are constantly being told to fear artificial intelligence, with almost every discussion about the future of work eventually turning to predictions about AI replacing employees, eliminating professions and fundamentally reshaping the labour market. While AI will undoubtedly transform the way we work, I believe our obsession with the futuristic
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Australia’s Red Line Package: Human rights for sale
Australia’s commitment to international law becomes considerably less convincing when enforcing it might disrupt defence contracts, the flow of dirty investments or strategic alliances. The Albanese government’s resistance to the Red Lines Package exposes this inherent contradiction: they will always condemns atrocities overseas, while continuing to make sure that Australian
PFAS, housing and climate: Luciana Carusi’s fight for the Blue Mountains
The coming NSW election asks a question that reaches beyond which party forms government: how much influence do communities actually have over the decisions shaping their lives? In the Blue Mountains, disputes over development, PFAS water contamination, housing affordability and climate policy expose a widening gap between being consulted and
Australia’s rules-based disorder
The international rules-based order faces a crisis of credibility, raising an uncomfortable question for Australia: does the Albanese government genuinely believe in international law, or only when defending it doesn’t have any consequences?The controversy surrounding Navi Pillay, the Nobel Peace Prize and Israel’s conduct in Gaza exposes a deeper struggle