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Publicly Funded Media Watch Accuses Michael West of Misinformation
A Billion-Dollar Australian Broadcaster Takes Aim at an Independent Michael West has put his reply to the ABC’s Media Watch on the record after the program accused him of perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. On Friday, executive producer Mario...
Australia’s Hopeless Internet: Information Super Highway turns into Goat Track
In Penong, on the Nullarbor, the Ampol station is the only public room for a hundred kilometres in any direction that pretends to offer the internet. I sat there for an hour yesterday trying to join the Telstra public network. The connection never arrived. The manager...
The Worst Week of Australia’s Failing Prime Minister
Fiji for him. The power bill for everyone else. The man who promised cheaper power is in Fiji. The woman who never promised anything of the sort is packing halls in Victoria. Between those two facts sits the ugliest week of Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership. On...
It Took A Live-Streamed Genocide To Punch Through The Wall Of Western Apathy
Video reading by Tim Foley: I never asked to know what a dismembered child looks like. Israel imposed that knowledge upon me. I never wanted to know what it looks like when military explosives blow an infant’s head off. I only know it because Israel
No One Gives A Fuck About October 7
Video reading by Tim Foley: No one gives a fuck about October 7. No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state
You Are Morally Obligated To Oppose Genocide And Apartheid Regardless Of Your Religion
Reading by Tim Foley: I judge Jewish people’s character based on whether or not they oppose the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. This is also how I judge the character of people who are not Jewish. Ever since the UK Green party’s “Zionism is racism”
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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When did obesity become a drug deficiency?
Look at almost any photograph of an American crowd taken 60 years ago. It can be a baseball game, a high school graduation, a beach, an airport terminal, a factory floor, or simply people walking down a city street. Something is immediately noticeable to modern eyes, although almost nobody in
The refinery war and the vulnerability of modern society
The war in Ukraine is revealing something that is easy to overlook in peacetime: modern military power, like modern civilization itself, depends on continuous supplies of usable transportation fuels and other products made from crude oil.Ukraine has increasingly targeted Russian oil refineries with long-range drones. In recent weeks, several major
Australia needs to reduce oil imports
[The war in the Middle East has] turbocharged fuel costs and Australians are paying a very hefty price – Treasurer Jim Chalmers Australia is already spending $50–70bn a year buying imported fuel. We need to ask how much additional cost is economically rational to pay to reduce strategic risk attached to
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Welcome to the Gronkocracy: How smart institutions become intellectually stupid
There is a particular type of person who does very well in large institutions. They are usually well qualified, understand the procedures and know precisely what constitutes an acceptable answer to an acceptable question. They are rarely considered to be fools in the conventional sense but their weakness is that
Why the FlyDubai story doesn’t add up, a Greens left turn and Australia’s politics of power
The FlyDubai story has got everything a government under political pressure could possibly dream of, especially several weeks out from a general election: a terrifying mid-air attack involving a knife (or was it an axe), an alleged jihadist, Israeli passengers in mortal danger, and a heroic intervention from a plumber
Will David Shoebridge give Labor the boot?
David Shoebridge’s ambition to replace Labor puts a larger question at the centre of Australian politics: can the Australian Greens become a party voters trust to govern? After losing three lower-house seats at the 2025 federal election, including Adam Bandt’s seat, the Greens face the ultimate challenge: they need to