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Two of the Greatest Creative Spirits of Our Age join forces: Nick Cave and Maria Popova together
There are affinities that feel less like coincidence than recognition. For years Maria Popova, the Bulgarian-born, New York-based polymath behind The Marginalian, has returned again and again to the work of Nick Cave — not as fan service, but as a mind meeting another...
Lollipop Ladies and the Rise of One Nation: Men are back in fashion
Drive past almost any major roadworks site in Australia and the picture is the same. High-vis vests, orange cones, and young women in hard hats twirling the red-and-white stop/slow bats that have earned them the name lollipop ladies. Some are on their phones. A few...
Australia is now a US base: A foreign military has the run of the country
The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars. What has changed is the density of that usefulness. The Nautilus Institute, an American security think tank with a nuclear disarmament brief funded mainly by American philanthropic foundations,...
Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology
Video reading by Tim Foley: On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining the ideology as “an ethnonationalist political project.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, was immediately banned by the Israeli government from
They’re Still Trying To Rehab Biden’s Genocidal Image, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Biden insiders are still trying to redeem themselves in the eyes of history through a New York Times article titled “‘Ready to Blow His Stack’: How Biden Nearly Cut Off Netanyahu Over Gaza” about how the previous president almost
Meditations On The Botched Execution Of Christa Pike
Video reading by Tim Foley: They botched another execution in Tennessee. They stuck the prisoner full of seven different syringes, but she didn’t die. She just experienced extreme suffering, minute after excruciating minute, before eventually losing consciousness. Her name is Christa Pike. As of this
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...
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...
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The strategic role of small-state diplomacy
At a time when international diplomacy is under extraordinary pressure, the proposed Muscat Process – advanced by a Group of Friends of the Process – deserves strong and sustained support. Its value lies not only in the possibility of achieving a particular political agreement, but in preserving channels of dialogue
Alarmist ‘Newspeak’ is poisoning the climate debate
Two brilliant linguistic mechanisms of control were introduced in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four:1. Newspeak, a deliberately restricted language designed to limit the range of human thought 2. Duckspeak, speech emptied of meaning and repeated automatically like the quacking of a duck. Advertisement
Don’t be Hastie, the joke’s on you
When the knives were out for Sussan Ley, Andrew Hastie went into Parliament and flourished his copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War. The message was clear: I’m going to win, but I’ll fight when I have the best chance of winning.If Sun Tzu were to produce a modern edition
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Will David Shoebridge give Labor the boot?
David Shoebridge’s ambition to replace Labor puts a larger question at the centre of Australian politics: can the Australian Greens become a party voters trust to govern? After losing three lower-house seats at the 2025 federal election, including Adam Bandt’s seat, the Greens face the ultimate challenge: they need to
The AI Medicare wake-up call
The OpenAI Medicare breach raises a question Australia can no longer defer: who controls artificial intelligence when the promises from corporate interests fail? An AI agent’s unauthorised access to the Medicare statistics portal, followed by a delayed notification to the Australian government, exposes that gap between technological capabilities and accountability.
The OpenAI Medicare breach exposes the dangerous gap in AI regulation
An OpenAI agent – not an actual person, but a piece of code – gained unauthorised access to the Services Australia portal in June, which includes the Medicare statistics service. OpenAI engineers discovered this breach in August when they performed routine audits of internal logs, but didn’t notify the Australian