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Crave: Australia’s Broken Heartlands
To the squadrons of mossies, her naked curves glistening under the fluorescence must have made them think they were about to feast on Lancelin’s tribute to Venus de Milo, but instead of an open clam she had left the door of her shower cubicle open as she dried herself...
Australians Being Crushed: 125 Different Taxes
Scott Kuru has become one of the sharper voices arguing that Australian governments are mismanaging the economy through relentless taxation and policies that punish effort. The property adviser and YouTuber repeatedly shows how households and small businesses are...
You Can Become a Pot Plant: NSW Legalises Humans Made into Soil
New South Wales has become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise terramation – human composting – as a third option alongside burial and cremation. Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich’s private member’s bill, the Public Health Amendment (Terramation) Bill...
On Google Killing 400,000 Trees To Build Data Centers In Finland
Video reading by Tim Foley: That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world. Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant “illegally”
There Are Polymarket Ads In Fortune Cookies
Reading by Tim Foley: There are Polymarket ads in fortune cookies.There are pop-ups in our prayers.There are paywalls on the monasteries,and the monks are millionaires. Well little Johnny’s gone to war.He joined the McMarines.The Iranians must be liberatedand blown to smithereens. Light a candle in
Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism
Video reading by Tim Foley: I’m still thinking about the admission in the UK’s “antisemitism” review contradicting widespread claims by the western political/media class that antisemitism is rising to dangerous levels throughout our society. We discussed this yesterday, but as a reminder, the UK’s Department
THE FIVE OF MY LIFE
Nigel Marsh produces an excellent and popular podcast that he calls THE FIVE OF MY LIFE. He has a national and international audience and invited me to be his guest this week. I enjoyed the chat immensely. It was very challenging in a relaxed and friendly manner. Here...
LIFE HAS BEEN KIND TO ME. MY CHARITY WALK AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS AN EXPRESSION OF MY THANKS FOR 10 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS.
Here are reasons why Monday, 5 October, 2026 will be a day of nostalgia. *I celebrate my 95th birthday. *Helen and I will enjoy the experience of walking eleven kilometres around Uluru, the spiritual heart of Australia. *We will raise 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a...
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...
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Will Iran will be Trump’s Vietnam?
Seven months into open hostilities with Iran, the conflict shows no clear path to any resolution. What began with a miscalculated attack on the Iranian leadership has been dragged into a grinding campaign of attrition, retaliatory strikes, and diplomatic deadlock.Comparisons to Vietnam are no longer fringe commentary, they appear in
Defective products: OpenAI, dangerous chatbots and deception
It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention and mindless devotion of unwitting users, the legal suit is becoming common fare. These initially lay in the field of copyright breaches and intellectual property violations. Attention is
Australia’s regional AI skills gap needs paid workplace trials
A regional mechanic can learn to use AI to draft a customer estimate in an afternoon. The harder question comes the next morning: Can that mechanic identify an invented replacement part, challenge an unsafe repair instruction, and explain the final recommendation to a customer? A certificate for completing an
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Going beyond the politics of outrage and avoidance
As parliament resumes following the alleged attack on Helen Haines, there needs to be more than just the sombre speeches and assurances that security will be reviewed, and that we need a “kinder” version of politics. The lack of effective security requests mentioned by Labor Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah – who
Neoliberalism’s long winter of discontent
How long can governments ask people to endure hardship before the promise of a better future loses its political value? France’s protests over rising living costs and underfunded public services bring that question into focus. Violence and looting deserve condemnation, but allowing them to dominate the debate obscures the grievances
Wong’s Palestine election demand: Who will protect the voters under occupation?
Demanding an election is easy. Ensuring people can safely campaign, reach a polling station and choose their representatives is a much harder test of commitment to democracy. Penny Wong’s criticism of the postponed Palestinian elections raises a basic question for Australian foreign policy: what responsibilities should come with the demand