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Tales of An Accidental Bookseller: The Interview
With Paul Bugden and Hollywood Hal We talk with two of Sydney’s most entertaining characters, actor, author and bookseller Paul Bugden, along with his incorrigible old friend Hollywood Hal, a legend of the city’s bohemian nightlife. Part of their story is captured in...
Australia’s Extreme Censorship Blows Up Relationship with America
One of the world’s best journalists, American Michael Shellenberger, has dramatically weighed into the Australian government’s over-the-top efforts to censor the Australian public. In his newsletter he writes that Australia’s Censorship Bill Is Aimed At Americans. And...
Book Brief: The Vaccine Mafia
With John Stapleton and Michael Gray Griffith Profit, Power, and the Pandemic Rollout—Inside the Global mRNA Vaccine DebacleFormer Pfizer chief toxicologist Helmut Sterz presents a critical examination of the development, approval, and global rollout of mRNA COVID-19...
Western Civilization Is A Phony Pop Star
Video reading by Tim Foley: Western liberal democracies are like a narcissistic wife beater who postures as a sensitive he/him feminist on social media. Like a pop star who makes a show of fighting the power and defending the marginalized while supporting Israel. Our society
No, We’re Not Having The “It’s Not Genocide” Conversation Anymore
Video reading by Tim Foley: It’s so undignified how Zionists keep trying to resurrect the “stop calling it a genocide” conversation about Gaza when every relevant human rights group on earth says that’s exactly what it is. The latest effort to revive this long-dead debate
There’s No Good Reason Why Poverty Should Still Exist
Video reading by Tim Foley: The other day I saw another great example of the way people in capitalist societies tend to reframe their dumb luck as the result of their own hard work and resourcefulness. At the end of the last season of the
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...
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The scheme meant to get first home buyers in is quietly lifting the floor beneath them
I run a free service that helps first home buyers, and part of how it stays free is that we refer people to brokers, including brokers who write loans under the federal 5 per cent Deposit Scheme. So when I say the scheme is doing something we should worry about,
Has ANZUS turned Australia into a target
The ANZUS alliance has underpinned Australian defence thinking since it was created back in 1951. For generations ANZUS had been presented as the ultimate security guarantee, a far-back platform that would keep the continent safe while the United States projected power across the Pacific.That assumption no longer holds with any
Australia’s AI plan needs an authority test for agents
Australia’s public service is moving into the stage of AI adoption where the most important governance question changes.For a chatbot, agencies reasonably ask whether the answer is accurate, fair, secure and useful. For an AI agent that can log into systems, call tools, send messages, move data or trigger transactions,
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Australia, Israel and the charade of Palestinian recognition
Almost a year after Australia recognised Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, the Albanese government faces an increasingly difficult question: what did recognition actually change?Recognition was supposed to support Palestinian sovereignty, self-determination and the right of Palestinians to remain on their land. Yet Australia has imposed no meaningful sanctions
The Liberal Party: Chasing One Nation to the edge of oblivion
One Nation may be slipping slightly in the opinion polls, but Pauline Hanson is still setting the direction of conservative politics in Australia. Instead of distinguishing the Liberal Party from the far right, opposition leader Angus Taylor appears determined to follow Hanson deeper into the culture wars – competing for
One year on: Australia’s Palestine policy is being put to the test
It’s coming up to a year since Australia recognised an independent and sovereign Palestine, ostensibly to “support the aspirations of the Palestinian people”, and “advance prospects for peace and stability in the region”. Of course, this was a momentous decision, and signalled a shift in diplomatic thinking but what, if