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Blood in the Water: Australians Celebrate Albanese’s American Disasters
Journalists hunt in packs, and now there is blood in the water. The Prime Minister is being dismembered, metaphorically, limb by limb, press conference by press conference, one disastrous headline after another. The entire country is experiencing a severe case of...
Full Scale Derision: Australian Prime Minister Accepts Global Citizen Award
Anthony Albanese’s decision to collect the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York this week is a masterclass in tone-deaf vanity. While Labor’s primary vote slumps to 27 per cent and his net approval sits worse than Scott Morrison’s, the Prime Minister...
Australia’s Digital Duty of Care an Astro Turfed Fake Movement: You Are Being Lied To
Institute of Public Affairs “#FixOurFeeds, the campaign widely credited with pushing the federal government toadopt a digital duty of care model has received millions of dollars from the federalgovernment. The Prime Minister claims the digital duty of care is a...
Under Capitalism It’s Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees
Video reading by Tim Foley: Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if
It’s Good To Bully Celebrities About Palestine
Video reading by Tim Foley: I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. We tend to underestimate the consequences of the fact that all the most
The Real Danger Of AI Is That It Is Run By Evil Warmongers
Video reading by Tim Foley: The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon
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...
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...
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Economics says Australia should have negative migration
Politics has forced the hand of the major parties to announce immigration cuts.But on those promises, Australia would run one of the highest per-capita intakes in the developed world – above most of Western Europe, where immigration is fracturing the social fabric. Politicians imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing
California is falling into an unrecoverable deficit of refineries
Despite what out of state friends and families have said for years, California is not going to fall into the Pacific Ocean. But if its policymakers and legislators continue on a path of carbon isolation uber allies, it’s possible that California continues to alienate itself from the rest of the
Embodied freedom and mutual recognition: a Fichtean foundation for healthcare ethics
Beauchamp and Childress’ principlist framework has shaped biomedical ethics for more than four decades, providing clinicians and policymakers with a vocabulary centered on autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Its influence is undeniable: the four principles have become the default language of ethics committees, medical school curricula, and institutional policy.Yet principlism’s
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Forty years of privatisation have left Sydney in a mess. It didn’t have to be this way
A reader contacted New Politics recently about the condition of infrastructure in New South Wales and the Fifteenth Avenue upgrade in South Western Sydney, and his e-mail set me off thinking, if not exactly in the direction he intended.There’s no shortage of infrastructure spending in NSW: Sydney has been dug
ASIO claims it stopped 16 terror threats. What about the big one it missed?
Sixteen potential terrorist threats in just nine months sounds absolutely terrifying. But coming from AISO, these extraordinary claims should invite a healthy level of cynicism. And what is meant by a potential threat? A terrorist threat is either real, or it’s not, and for these claims to come from a
From Israel to immigration, Labor is losing its political nerve
The problem for the Albanese government isn’t just about Australia moving too slowly against illegal Israeli settlements – it walked up to the negotiating table but then decided that it was all too much and just walked away.Australia was a part of these negotiations with Britain, France, Canada and European