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Is There Anything We Could Have Done to Make You Stay? Australia’s Broken Heartlands
Off the coast of Geraldton, ten container ships lay anchored on the horizon, waiting to be filled with wheat. Here on the manicured foreshore the windsurfers race over the choppy waves, and she sits on the bench, phone in hand, while the wind tries to cover her in...
The Future is in Play: How Safe Are Their Houses?
Angus Taylor, leader of the Australian Liberal Party, faces a real risk of losing Hume to One Nation if current trends hold to 2028. Anthony Albanese’s hold on his inner-west seat of Grayndler, despite soft primary numbers, the multiple scandals surrounding him, the...
The Biggest Story in Australia: The Economy
The Australian economy is not quietly deteriorating. It is being publicly flogged, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is taking the whip. The front pages of the past seven days have read like a charge sheet. “What would you cut?” Chalmers challenges critics of government...
The Most Under-Discussed Political Reality Of Our Time
Video reading by Tim Foley: The most significant political reality of our time is also the most under-discussed political reality, and it can be summed up as follows: There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we can force
The Viral Red Baron Employee’s Fundraiser Is A Feel-Bad Story
Video reading by Tim Foley: The viral Red Baron Pizza worker and his $500,000 fundraiser is not a feel-good story, it’s a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed. If you haven’t seen the video going around, here
Australia’s “Antisemitism Envoy” Says The Pro-Palestine Left Are The Real Nazis
Video reading by Tim Foley: Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has released a new report claiming that the primary threat to Jews in our country comes from left-wing pro-Palestine activists, which Segal hilariously labels “issue-motivated antisemitism”. (Genocide. The “issue” is genocide.) This, obviously, is an
THE FIVE OF MY LIFE
Nigel Marsh produces an excellent and popular podcast that he calls THE FIVE OF MY LIFE. He has a national and international audience and invited me to be his guest this week. I enjoyed the chat immensely. It was very challenging in a relaxed and friendly manner. Here...
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...
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Unmasked agendas: Macron, youth protests and blocking social media
Finally, the ill-fitting mask on the ugly face of government policy comes off. In the sunset of his administration, French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a boiling, indignant movement that began with the protests of disgruntled students and has burgeoned into something much more significant. On September 17, teachers at
The Bering Strait Tunnel: from intercontinental link to a governance ecosystem
Figure 1: Original diagram of the Bering Strait from US-Soviet Peace Bridge, circa 1960s (https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/what-super-secret-peace-bridge-why-russia-given-jfk-files-to-us-kennedy-khrushchev-siberia-trump-putin-2804602-2025-10-17) The proposal to construct a railway and cargo tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, connecting Russia’s Chukotka region with Alaska, recovers an old ambition to physically unite Eurasia and North America. In October 2025, Kirill Dmitriev,
Ukraine at the crossroads of global power and the changing international order
The war between Ukraine and Russia has evolved into much more than a territorial conflict between two neighbouring states. It has become a central point of confrontation within a changing international order, bringing together the strategic interests of the United States, Russia, China, the European Union, NATO and a range
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Albanese’s mid-term test: Labor’s struggle to restore trust and ward off One Nation
A government can survive an unpopular prime minister but it becomes more vulnerable when voters stop believing it can improve their lives. For Anthony Albanese, the big question is whether Labor can turn its parliamentary strength into changes people can actually feel.With Labor and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation level on
Serbia, Brazil and Israel votes: Is the far right losing ground?
Authoritarian politics thrives on the appearance of inevitability: the strongman who cannot be defeated, the opposition can never be allowed to govern, and voters have nowhere else to go. Election results in Serbia and Brazil have challenged that narrative, raising a question with consequences that go far beyond their borders:
Europe’s revolt and the future of neoliberalism
The most politically significant images coming out of France are of the crowds who have decided that their government is no longer listening, and that the economic conditions that they are repeatedly told to accept are failing to deliver a viable and acceptable future.Last week, hundreds of thousands of people