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Dr Bruce Paix. The Rumble Interview.
Yes, jail. Arrested on bogus charges that were later thrown out in court, Bruce was locked up for seven days — all of it in isolation. That was when he first collided with A Sense of Place Magazine. We interviewed him on the same day he was released. To see the...
Imprisoned Dr Bruce Paix Released on Bail: Given A Hero’s Welcome. From 2022. Lest we Forget the Abuses we endured at the hands of the Australian Government.
By John Stapleton War veteran and trauma specialist Dr Bruce Paix was arrested near Canberra airport while on his way to attend the Convoy to Canberra gathering. Cheering crowds celebrated Dr Paix’s release today, 11 February, 2022, as he was driven around the...
Australia’s Failed Suicide Policies: Feminist Takeover. With Author Bettina Arndt Interview.
Seven men die by suicide in Australia every day. In May 2026, the peak body for men’s health endorsed a plan to address this by teaching boys about gender equity. There is a moment in any institutional capture when the pretence falls away. For decades, men’s health...
Blaming Ordinary People For The Ecocidal Consequences Of AI, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ I just saw an article in The Conversation titled “Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly,” and it pisses me off because you can already see where this is going. Neoliberalism is already doing
True Spirituality Confronts The Abuses Of The Empire
Reading by Tim Foley: A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you’re wasting your
Some Guy Broke Into My House
Reading by Tim Foley: Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his great-grandparents used to live in this house and now he won’t leave. My family and I tried to kick him out but he got
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
Metaphor, Risk, and Responsibility in Language around Reconciliation
Public reconciliation discourse relies heavily on metaphor to mobilise participation and signal ethical commitment. Phrases such as “closing the gap”, “walking together” and “bridge-building” frame reconciliation through ideas of movement, repair and shared responsibility. So why are we now seeing gambling-derived language, specifically the phrase “go all in”? Gambling metaphors
The price of miscalculation
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was finally unveiled a few days ago only reaffirmed how misguided the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28 was, as by every account and careful analysis, despite Iran’s heavy losses, it has come out on top. Should the US and Iran negotiate
The failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan
The Murray Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) was established in 2012 in response to the Millennium Drought (1997–2010), which certain people believed was proof of climate change. In their view it would never rain heavily again, leaving the environment permanently short of water.The issue gained particular currency in South Australia, where
California ports expose the state as a national security risk to America
With no pipelines over the Sierra Mountains, California is an energy island separated from the crude oil supply and the infrastructure of oil refineries within the other 49 States. Collectively, California, the 4th largest economy in the world, consumes a humongous 61 million gallons of ALL transportation fuels PER DAY
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Starmer’s downfall should be a warning sign for Albanese
Keir Starmer’s resignation as British Prime Minister after just 18 months in office is more than another chapter in the United Kingdom’s revolving-door leadership. It raises a much bigger question for centre-left governments across the democratic world: why do parties elected on promises of transformational change so often end up
Hansonism and the rise of racist neoliberalism
Pauline Hanson is often described as angry, but the anger in itself is not the problem. We’ve seen historically that anger can be one of the great drivers of democracy: it has exposed the humiliation, exploitation and abandonment of people by terrible governments in the past, will continue to do
The billionaire’s megaphone: Who really runs Australian politics?
One of the big developments in Australian politics has been the growing influence of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart and a small circle of ultra-wealthy political donors. As we all know, very little in life is free, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to politics; it’s always a question