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Scott Kuru: Australia is about to become the World’s Fastest Dying Country
A new generation of podcasters is transforming Australia’s media. One of the best is property expert Scott Kuru. His signature blend of data, outrage, and calls to individual action paints a picture of avoidable decline accelerating through poor policy choices....
How drug demand in New Zealand and Australia is driving calls for the death penalty in Fiji
By Kya Raina Lal, Auckland University of Technology Fiji is at the centre of an illicit narcotics crisis described as a national emergency, driven by an escalating demand for hard drugs in Australia and New Zealand. Drugs, particularly cocaine and methamphetamine, are...
Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation. The Book. The Author Interview.
Drawing on research from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, Mindless exposes how education has been captured by radical ideas that elevate victimhood, identity politics and climate alarmism above learning. To watch the Sunday morning Rumble podcast...
They Fearmonger About “Communism” Because They Can’t Oppose Real Problems
And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ As self-styled “democratic socialists” make some advancements in blue states, Republicans have launched a renewed fearmongering campaign about the urgent threat of “communism” — an ideology with no meaningful political existence in the United States. At a speech on
Why I Hold Out Hope For Humanity
Reading by Tim Foley: I hold out hope because people aren’t buying the propaganda like they used to. I hold out hope because trust in the imperial media is at an all-time low while our ability to attack and discredit the official narrative is at
They’re Still Pushing The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza
Reading by Tim Foley: Israel is still pushing for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They keep trying different angles and rebranding it under different names, but the end goal has remained the same since October 2023: the removal of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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
A new political party – why?
Since many voters hold little affection for political parties – and much of the popularity of the ‘independents’ was just that – the move by Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall to form a new one is surprising. They’ve been forced into this corner because of the changed electoral laws, and
Remove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights,you dismantle society!
The zero-emissions debate asks when we can stop burning crude oil. The harder question – one that remains largely unasked – is what we propose to make things from once we do.Electricity generated by wind and solar cannot be poured into a mold to produce a medical device, spread on
The West’s circular firing squad – or is it a daisy chain?
There is a peculiar pathology at work in the commentary class of the Western right. It is not stupidity, exactly. It is something more insidious: a reflexive cynicism turned inward, a habit of holding its own side to standards it would never dream of applying to the left. The result
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The Liberal Party’s winter of irrelevance: Can it recover?
Australian politics has entered a winter of discontent, and nowhere is the chill being felt more sharply than inside the Liberal Party. Angus Taylor leads an opposition with 42 seats in the House of Representatives, yet the party often appears to be chasing One Nation’s agenda rather than setting its
Is Angus Taylor finished?
There are two answers to the question of whether Angus Taylor is finished. The first is the usual Canberra answer, which is the least interesting. No, he’s not finished in the narrow sense: he’s still Liberal leader, and his deputy still backs him, which is what we’d expect him to
A new logo won’t save the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party’s latest bout of soul-searching has arrived at a very familiar point: the problem isn’t the packaging, it’s what’s inside the package. Following another round of disastrous opinion poll numbers, senior figures of the Liberal Party are openly discussing a rebrand, with suggestions that the party’s name may