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Ramesh Thakur on the Iran War: Diplomacy, Deterrence and the Nuclear Shadow. The Interview.
Few people can speak to this conflict with the combination of institutional memory, field experience and intellectual honesty that Thakur brings. As a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General who worked the Iran nuclear file in its earlier years, visited the...
Australia’s Broken Heartlands: Michael Gray Griffith. The Interview.
Goodbye Road: Australia’s Broken Heartlands is one of the rawest, most poignant, powerful and consequential books of the 2020s. Here author Michael Gray Griffith, speaking from an abandoned industrial park in Western Australia, talks in depth about the creation of the...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University As countries around the world look to follow Australia’s lead in restricting young people’s access to social media, a new report by the eSafety Commissioner might give them reason to pause, at least temporarily. Australia’s online...
Supporters Of Capitalism Are Victims Of Their Own Cognitive Biases
Reading by Tim Foley: People who believe capitalism is working out great are just sloppy thinkers who’ve fallen victim to survivorship bias and the just-world fallacy. Survivorship bias is when your analysis focuses on those who made it while ignoring those who didn’t. You got
Israeli Officials Promote Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories About Israel
Reading by Tim Foley: Israeli officials have spent recent days circulating antisemitic conspiracy theories, with Benjamin Netanyahu boasting that he manipulated the United States into war with Iran, and Itamar Ben-Gvir sharing an AI video of Palestinians being sent to Nazi-style concentration camps. In an
Today In Dystopia: ICE Robots And Pentagon Puppets
Reading by Tim Foley: Today in dystopia, ICE is planning to add police robots to the arsenal with which it will be patrolling US streets. Fortune reports: “The Trump administration is exploring adding robot dogs to the expanding arsenal being used by federal immigration
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...
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...
MEDIA STATEMENT : FELIPE ALVAREZ CORONIAL INQUEST
Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer born on Wemba-Wemba country, and is the First Nations Public Policy Commissioning Editor for The Conversation. She just recently submitted her PhD at the University of Melbourne on cross-cultural collaborations in the performing arts.
Our Children are the Treaty generation
Sheree Lowe is VACCHO’s Executive Director of the Social Emotional Wellbeing unit and the Balit Durn Durn Centre. Sheree is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with strong ties to Southwest Victoria and has lived most of her life on Wadawurrung Country. She was an elected member of the south
Australia’s energy transition: how’s it going?
Australia’s energy transition – heard of it? You must have. But what exactly is it? And how’s it going?In a nutshell, it’s about clean energy, renewables, climate change, Canberra, top politicians — and good news, especially from government sources. At the top is the Minister for Climate Change and Energy,
Sensible invalidations: striking down France’s social media ban for minors
Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has captured the interest of governments for its shallow, meretricious appeal. Refusing to deal with the actual conduct of the social media giants, notably in terms of their
Double standards and hypocrisy abound in the Sydney Swans’ sex scandal
There has been extensive commentary by politicians, activists, and others condemning the Swans footballers’ behaviour in a Pullman Hotel room around 4 AM on 17 August in Melbourne. What is quite extraordinary is that so much posturing took place during days when almost nothing was known about what the footballers
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A government of false outrage, excuses and no consequences
The Sydney Marathon controversy – where around 40 Israel Defence Forces personnel from the infamous Golani Brigade and Unit 8200 participated – presents the Albanese government with that same old question it has repeatedly avoided for almost three years: when will condemnation of Israel actually produce some consequences?There were protests
Football First, Women Last
The allegations surrounding five Sydney Swans players have become one of the most serious controversies of the AFL season, yet much of the early discussion focused not on the women who reported the alleged sexual assaults, but on suspended players, damaged careers, premiership prospects and the reputation of the club.
We need to talk about the influence of Israel
Nick McKim’s refusal to apologise for saying the Labor government has been “captured by Zionist interests” has opened a much larger argument about political influence, lobbying and the boundaries of legitimate debate in Australia.Pro-Israel organisations always argue that language about “political capture” brings up those antisemitic conspiracy tropes about Jewish