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Prison Island: Australia’s Totalitarian Hate Speech Laws
Australia used to export its convicts. Now it is building the walls inward. After one massacre on Bondi Beach, Canberra recalled Parliament and, in a single sitting, handed ASIO and a minister the power to list groups as “prohibited hate organisations.” No trial. No...
A Deflated Australian Prime Minister Flies Home: Duty of Care Meet the Rogue Agent
The Prime Minister flew to America to be seen as a statesman. Australia watched a weak man walk into the same problems he left at home. California first. The welcome party was Australia’s own ambassador. No American official on the tarmac worth the photograph. Then a...
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...
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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When everything becomes a mental illness
Australia has a massive mental-health problem, with almost half of all people experiencing a “mental disorder” at some point in their life. That is, every second person has allegedly had a mental-health problem. Statistically speaking, there is a 1 in 2 chance that we have had one ourselves.Naturally, it’s all
Does Al-Qaida terrorism still pose a threat to western civilisation?
Despite the crushing defeat of al-Qaida and its patron, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, in 2001, and the killing of its leader, Osama bin Laden, a decade later in a Pakistani garrison town on May 2, 2011, al-Qaida and its affiliated Islamic terrorist groups display signs of revival a quarter-century
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
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What is ASIO really telling us about terror threats?
ASIO director–general Mike Burgess says the agency has disrupted 16 potential terror threats and four more serious plots since the Bondi Beach attack. Those numbers are designed to get the attention of the public but they also demand an explanation. What is meant by a “disruption”? How close were the
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