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Australia’s Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking
Rebekah Barnett: Brownstone Institute he right-wing populist wave that broke over much of the democratic world with Brexit and the first Trump presidency in 2016 barely lapped at Australia’s shores. The island nation’s compulsory, preferential voting system and...
How to Sell a Genocide: The Double Standards of Reporting on Gaza
Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne When the University of Queensland Press cancelled the publication of Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money’s book Bila: A River Cycle because of a blog post by its illustrator, 60 UQP contributors signed a letter of protest. Some declared...
Australian political commentator Paul Collits, with Cafe Locked Out. How Did We Get Here.
With Paul Collits. His Substack is called Political Science. Collits, being a somewhat cerebral lad, describes himself as a freelance writer and independent scholar and researcher, with interests in politics, public policy, philosophy, economics and education. To...
The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine
Reading by Tim Foley: The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations. Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from
US Empire Managers View Iranian Sovereignty As An Act Of Aggression, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US is going to be launching major strikes in Iran, while President Trump says he’ll “bomb the shit out of” the Iranians if they don’t agree to a deal of
AI Won’t Save Us From The Need To End Capitalism
Reading by Tim Foley: One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it’s the last “humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems” narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI
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...
HAVE SOLD 126 TICKETS TO LAUNCH OF ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’. ROOM CAPACITY IS 140. WILL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU ARE ONE OF FINAL 14.
The launch of WALK IN THE SPIRIT is on Friday 27 March at Noon at the Royal on the Park in Alice Street Brisbane. The 126 who have bought tickets have paid 95 dollars each for a special Uluru Burger with a drink and coffee, as well as a signed book, with the surplus...
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 Iran conflict and the potential collapse of the ‘Greater Israel’ vision
In the wake of Iran’s recent missile barrages and the intense exchanges of 2025–2026, a striking development has emerged: the United States appeared to step back from fully committing to Israel’s defense in ways that once defined their alliance. While Washington has provided intelligence, defensive support, and conducted its own
Repetitive folly: Israel’s futile war in Lebanon deepens
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington. The war’s increasing savagery
Australia’s failed suicide policies
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 advocates have been politely
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Is Israel heading towards AUKUS? The bigger story behind the submarines
For years, the public debate around AUKUS has been dominated by submarines, costs, delivery schedules and whether the United States will ultimately provide Australia with the nuclear-powered vessels it has promised. Yet those questions have distracted attention from a far more significant transformation taking place beneath the surface.This week, we
The AUKUS secret: How Australia risks becoming part of the US–Israel war machine
Has AUKUS only ever been about the submarines? For many years, this is what the focus has been on: new/old submarines, will they arrive/won’t they arrive… and during this time, the political class and mainstream media has corralled the discussions in a child-like way towards the costs, delivery timetables, industrial
AUKUS, housing and universities: The policy failures that keep hindering Australia’s future
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the hidden implications of AUKUS and integration into US military structures; a housing crisis that governments continue to talk about but seem unwilling to solve; and growing pressures on universities as international students and migrants become political scapegoats for