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Australia’s Failed Suicide Policies: Feminist Takeover. With Author Bettina Arndt Interview.
Seven men die by suicide in Australia every day. In May 2026, the peak body for men’s health endorsed a plan to address this by teaching boys about gender equity. There is a moment in any institutional capture when the pretence falls away. For decades, men’s health...
Stasi Australia.
Written in 2020, at the beginning of Australia’s truly insane reaction to Covid, regarded as one of the worst if not the worst in the world, spearheaded by the now much reviled Prime Minister Scott Morrison, it has proved all too prophetic. An overwhelmed and...
Fire the Liar: Pauline Hanson’s Crowdfunding Blitz Turns Australian Politics Upside Down
In just days, a simple slogan has captured the Australian public’s imagination like few political campaigns in recent memory. “Fire the Liar” – Pauline Hanson’s audacious One Nation fundraising drive targeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – has raised over $3.6...
True Spirituality Confronts The Abuses Of The Empire
Reading by Tim Foley: A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you’re wasting your
Some Guy Broke Into My House
Reading by Tim Foley: Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his great-grandparents used to live in this house and now he won’t leave. My family and I tried to kick him out but he got
Rumbling
Reading by Tim Foley: If you can hear the whalesthrough your glowing foot roots,then stand up. Open your mouth.Let their aria rip through you.Let it pound up and outso the others can find you. Burrrp! Now’s not the time for politeness, my love.We’re staring down
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...
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...
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
Metaphor, Risk, and Responsibility in Language around Reconciliation
Public reconciliation discourse relies heavily on metaphor to mobilise participation and signal ethical commitment. Phrases such as “closing the gap”, “walking together” and “bridge-building” frame reconciliation through ideas of movement, repair and shared responsibility. So why are we now seeing gambling-derived language, specifically the phrase “go all in”? Gambling metaphors
Grok AI and the new era of AI-enabled warfare: US drone targeting and operations in Iran and Ukraine
The US Department of Defense (often referred to in this context as the Department of War) has cast xAI’s data centers as battlefield infrastructure of “paramount national security” importance. Elon Musk’s Grok AI has become an integral part of America’s war machine, according to a sworn declaration by the
Trump and the aestheticization of fear
In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to some readers. Politics had always contained theatrical elements. Presidents cultivated images. Campaigns relied on slogans and symbolism. The boundary
Psychology: help yourself to a secure life
Interpreting the science of attachment, US psychiatrist/neuroscientist Levine had a surprise top-seller with his 2010 book-debut, Attached. But kept getting the same question, how do I become more secure? Finally, Secure (Cornerstone through Penguin, 264pp, RRP $37) shoots for answers, whilst also re-emphasising the science.With non-fiction, sometimes I cheat, read
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Hansonism and the rise of racist neoliberalism
Pauline Hanson is often described as angry, but the anger in itself is not the problem. We’ve seen historically that anger can be one of the great drivers of democracy: it has exposed the humiliation, exploitation and abandonment of people by terrible governments in the past, will continue to do
The billionaire’s megaphone: Who really runs Australian politics?
One of the big developments in Australian politics has been the growing influence of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart and a small circle of ultra-wealthy political donors. As we all know, very little in life is free, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to politics; it’s always a question
How America lost the war
For years, the public was told that conflict with Iran was unavoidable. Successive governments in the US and Israel have argued that diplomacy had failed, sanctions had reached their limits, and military action was the only remaining option. When the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran in February,