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Sunday Morning At Cafe Locked Out: This Week’s Guest John Shipton
John Shipton is an Australian architect and anti-war activist, best known as the biological father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Born around 1944, he met Christine Hawkins at a Vietnam War rally in 1970. Their relationship ended before or shortly after Julian’s...
On interviewing the last surviving Anzac
By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell, that...
Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast
Loukas Koungoulos, The University of Western Australia; Isaac A. R. Kerr, Flinders University, and Sue O’Connor, Australian National University Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First...
Let Your Love For This World Fill You With Joy And Compel You To Action
Reading by Tim Foley: Love and cherish our world. That’s the secret to remaining both (A) deeply happy and (B) well-informed about the dystopian abuses of the empire. You don’t have to choose. You can have both. I sometimes get called a Debbie Downer for
We All Know This Civilization Is Doomed, But They Keep Telling Us Everything’s Normal
Reading by Tim Foley: Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions. We can all see everything getting worse and worse before our eyes
Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other For Systemic Abuses
Reading by Tim Foley: The capitalist empire blames all systemic problems on the individual. The problem isn’t billionaire megacorporations polluting the planet, it’s that you drive a car. The problem isn’t that it’s getting harder and harder to afford to live as the ruling class
TRACKS TO SOMEWHERE
I am in the 95th year of my life. I enjoy my memories as well as my thoughts on how I could have handled them better. One of them is my meeting with John Howard in 1996 when he gave me approval to begin planning a freight railway from Melbourne to Darwin via New South...
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...
JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 5 FOR A ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AROUND ULURU
Five years ago on my 90th birthday I walked with 50 friends along an old rail corridor in the Brisbane River Valley from my old hometown of Linville to Moore and back again, a distance of 14 kilometres. I completed the walk in three hours and raised $35000 for Dorcas...
MEDIA STATEMENT : FELIPE ALVAREZ CORONIAL INQUEST
Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer born on Wemba-Wemba country, and is the First Nations Public Policy Commissioning Editor for The Conversation. She just recently submitted her PhD at the University of Melbourne on cross-cultural collaborations in the performing arts.
Our Children are the Treaty generation
Sheree Lowe is VACCHO’s Executive Director of the Social Emotional Wellbeing unit and the Balit Durn Durn Centre. Sheree is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with strong ties to Southwest Victoria and has lived most of her life on Wadawurrung Country. She was an elected member of the south
The spirit of Cain
Last month the ABC broadcast a young woman inviting the nation to imagine what it would do to Gina Rinehart when the revolution comes. There was a stick. There were her intestines. There was a sausage roll. The national broadcaster said the tone was satirical.I have no interest in whether
The impossible homecoming: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the trauma of war
Emily Wilson begins her celebrated translation of Homer’s Odyssey with an imperative that has become almost as famous as the poem itself: “Tell me about a complicated man.” Christopher Nolan has acknowledged the importance of that formulation to his own adaptation of Homer. Yet in her fierce review of Nolan’s
Drone Defence in ASEAN – better present than absent
As anyone who has followed the Russo-Ukrainian war would know, aerial suicide or One Way Attack (OWA) drones, with ranges in the 10s or many 100s of kilometres have been used by both sides to deadly effect. Ukraine has successfully deployed many of its OWA drones to assail Russian military
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The politics of distraction and the ongoing decline of the media
Illustration: Josh Adams/Green Left.Labor is doing its best to imitate Pauline Hanson’s racist magic-wand politics, sending out the message that migration numbers will fall dramatically, without causing any pain at all, without damaging universities, without making skill shortages worse or weakening an economy that has been calibrated to sustain itself
The police state of New South Wales
The Minns government presents its proposed expansion of digital surveillance powers as a necessary response to organised crime, but the big issue isn’t whether NSW Police should investigate criminal networks; it’s whether police should be able to access mobile phones without the judicial safeguards that prevent legitimate investigations from going
The new US imperialism of AUKUS
Malcolm Turnbull’s description of AUKUS as a “colossal mistake” is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss. Australia is committing hundreds of billions of dollars to a nuclear submarine program that depends on almost everything going right across three countries, several decades and a succession of governments – while leaving many of