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Convoy to Canberra. Three. The Fulcrum Points of History
By John Stapleton Four years ago this month hundreds of thousands of people, fed up with lockdowns, vaccine mandates, censorship and the totalitarian instincts of the Australian government, marched on Parliament House in Canberra. Shamefully, the official lies of the...
Sunday Morning Rumble Podcasts with John Stapleton, Michael Gray Griffith and various Guests
With Jacob Welsh: The AI Family Law website RYTZ, 8 February, 2026. With Colin Lillie: the “Gypsy Scotsman” who found his true voice – and home – in the red heart of Australia, 31 January, 2026. With Keysar Trad: Australia’s Hate Speech Laws and the Betrayal of the...
Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come
By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their freedoms. To...
Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To)
Reading by Tim Foley: Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to. Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our society is led by
If You Think Our Rulers Do Bad Things In Secret, Wait Til You See What They Do Out In The Open
Reading by Tim Foley: They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world. They’re openly targeting civilian populations with siege warfare in Iran and Cuba in full view of the entire world. They openly kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation in
The Plutocrats Who Rule Our World Aren’t Even Enjoying Themselves
Reading by Tim Foley: I saw a tweet by Elon Musk the other day, “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about.” He put a sadface emoji at the end. I personally do not feel the slightest bit sorry for
READING A SIGNED EVERALD BOOK IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY TO ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS BREAK.
Nothing better can happen to you during the holiday season than to spend a couple of hours every day in a cool spot under a shady tree reading an entertaining book that has a page-turning message to renew your soul. It won’t surprise you to discover that I...
MEET ME AT REDCLIFFE ON MELBOURNE CUP NIGHT (TUESDAY)
An active group of Progressive Christians meet regularly at Redcliffe to debate the core issues of modern Christianity. They call themselves the REDCLIFFE EXPLORERS and they are interesting people who have expansive minds. I am delighted to have accepted their...
I INVITE YOU TO CLICK BELOW TO READ AND SIGN MY PETITION TO PARLIAMENT TO HAVE A PREAMBLE ADDED TO AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION STATING EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN.
(Alfred Deakin, pictured below, tried in 1895 to include a Preamble in our Constitution but Federation delegates couldn’t agree on its wording) https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8147 PETITION CLOSES 22 OCTOBER. Together, we can ensure that, before they...
Kiawal Toran (our presence our time): The urgency of eliminating racism from the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
“For a population of 15,000 having three to four [preventable] deaths per week was very alarming [and] traumatising…Having in the back of our minds, ‘why are people, our families, dying such deaths that could have been prevented?’” Mayor Phillemon Mosby, Torres Strait Island Regional Council For the past two years,
Debunking: Australia Day is about 1949, not 1788!
Disclaimer: First Nations readers please be advised that this article mentions acts of racism and features antiquated language. If, like me, you were foolish enough to spend any time in the comments section of the seemingly infinite barrage of racist posts and articles circulating on social media yesterday, you probably
Why Crisafulli should study Borbidge govt, not Newman government
The Crisafulli government is here for the long haul and is determined not to rerun the Newman government, but what happens if instead they become the Borbidge government Mark II?It’s 30 years since Rob Borbidge won government from Wayne Gosss, and while most will have forgotten itt, the times are
The democrats need a concrete governing agenda
Since Trump reassumed the presidency, the rank and file of the Democrats have been busy criticizing, for good reason, Trump’s unhinged exercise of power. Given Trump’s onslaught on just about every norm of America’s political, cultural, and economic way of life, the Democrats cannot possibly exhaust the range of criticism
When universities forgot how to say no
While leading universities in Australia and England, I learned that academic freedom is the phrase administrators reach for when they lack the courage to decide. It has become higher education’s version of ‘Hey, I’m just asking questions’: a rhetorical shield behind which institutions retreat when judgement is required.The problem is
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