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A Sense of Place Magazine

Convoy to Canberra. Seven. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth.

By John Stapleton Four years ago Australia saw the largest demonstrations in its history, as hundreds of thousands of people descended on the nation’s capital. The Australian media and the Australian authorities colluded in lying about the numbers, and lied about the...

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Convoy to Canberra. Five. We Will Wash Away Tyranny.

By John Stapleton Four years ago this month the largest mass protest in Australia history occurred. It was called the Convoy to Canberra, and protested the extreme abuses of Australian authorities during this era: including extreme lockdowns, for which there was no...

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Podcast: Gaza, Cuba, Global Sumud Flotilla, And More

Caitlin and Tim discuss the Israeli abduction of Global Sumud Flotilla activists hundreds of miles away from their territorial waters, US war plans for Cuba, Israel’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, the billionaire propagandist who owns Politico, motherhood, misogyny, and more. As usual, please leave

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Our Rulers Take So Very Much And Give Us So Very Little

Reading by Tim Foley: Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid the cognitive discomfort of writing your own words and thinking your own thoughts. Sure the empire is butchering human beings at horrifying scale around

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Three Recent Examples Of AI Being Used For Empire Propaganda

Reading by Tim Foley: In the last few days I’ve seen three separate instances of generative AI being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to. Firstly, an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes

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IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’

You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...

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Daily Reporting: Jeffrey Winmar inquest, Day 8, April 10th, 2026

Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please be advised this article mentions the name of an Aboriginal person who has died in custody. This article also mentions acts of violence. Accounts and names have been published with permission given to the author from the family. Day 8 – 10th

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Daily Reporting: Jeffrey Winmar inquest, Day 7, April 9th, 2026

Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please be advised this article mentions the name of an Aboriginal person who has died in custody. This article also mentions acts of violence. Accounts and names have been published with permission given to the author from the family. Day 7 – 9

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Fiendish feminists’ suicide gotcha

Last Christmas, one of our major suicide prevention groups had a call from a very distressed, suicidal man. The counsellor did his best to support him and arranged to keep in touch. But there was no answer to the counsellor’s follow up calls. Following their organisation’s duty of care rules,

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Historic flip on spending risks big tax increases

The Australian government has a serious spending problem. In recent years the federal government’s spending level has surged to now sit at an estimated 26.9 per cent of GDP, with little sign of slowing down. The spending surge has put pressure on inflation, which has pushed interest rates up, and

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New Politics

Anzac Day hijacked: Culture wars at dawn

This week, we examine how Anzac Day in Australia has become the latest battleground in an escalating culture war, with scenes of booing at Dawn Services during Welcome to Country ceremonies, and the increasing influence of right-wing political groups such as Advance Australia and Fight for Australia. What was once

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The Incrementalist: Albanese’s art of doing nothing on gas

The debate over taxing Australia’s gas exports has returned with the same predictably and, of course, the same paralysis. At Senate Estimates last week, the question of a 25 per cent export tax on liquefied natural gas was the centre of attention again, not as some radical leftist idea but

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