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The Promise of Universal Abundance Meets the Reality of Deaths of Despair
In the glossy narratives of artificial intelligence, Australia – and the wider West – stands on the threshold of Universal Abundance. Machines will free us from toil, algorithms will optimise every need, and the old constraints of scarcity will dissolve into a...
Australia After the Rains: The Greening of the Nullarbor
The Nullarbor is supposed to be the place where the country runs out. From the car it is a ruled line, a white edge on bitumen, saltbush and sky, and the long habit of calling it empty. This spring the plain has not kept the bargain. Rain through the winter, and again...
Publicly Funded Media Watch Accuses Michael West of Misinformation
A Billion-Dollar Australian Broadcaster Takes Aim at an Independent Michael West has put his reply to the ABC’s Media Watch on the record after the program accused him of perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. On Friday, executive producer Mario...
They’re Setting Up AI Surveillance To “De-Radicalize” Classrooms In Gaza
Video reading by Tim Foley: A US-based nonprofit is planning to use AI surveillance to check for “hateful” speech about Israel inside classrooms in the genocide-ravaged Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports: “A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools
Pentagon To Live Stream Firing Squad Execution — A Poem
Video reading by Tim Foley: The Pentagon plans to live-streamthe firing squad executionof the Fort Hood shooter,and my head is so very heavy,and everything is covered in the ashesof a burning planet. I found the corpse of a water spiritdown by the creek where my
It Took A Live-Streamed Genocide To Punch Through The Wall Of Western Apathy
Video reading by Tim Foley: I never asked to know what a dismembered child looks like. Israel imposed that knowledge upon me. I never wanted to know what it looks like when military explosives blow an infant’s head off. I only know it because Israel
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 slow-motion erasure of the West Bank
There are crimes that arrive with explosions, and crimes that advance quietly-through a bulldozer at dawn, a rifle at a shepherd’s chest, a child torn from bed, a family denied water until leaving becomes the only way to survive. In the West Bank, dispossession has become a daily ritual and
Flying scared: the evacuation of US bombers from Raf Fairford
The evacuation of a dozen B-1B bombers of the US Air Force from the RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire is another instalment in the latest rippling of the Iran war that began as a pre-emptive, illegal assault by the US and Israel on the Islamic Republic in late February. This, arguably,
When did obesity become a drug deficiency?
Look at almost any photograph of an American crowd taken 60 years ago. It can be a baseball game, a high school graduation, a beach, an airport terminal, a factory floor, or simply people walking down a city street. Something is immediately noticeable to modern eyes, although almost nobody in
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The FlyDubai incident: Fear and art of political fiction
A crisis doesn’t have to be manufactured to become propaganda. The political opportunity lies in deciding what it means, who deserves the blame and which questions the public should stop asking. The competing accounts surrounding FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 raise a much larger question: what happens when a politician’s explanation becomes
The Greens take on Labor, Supermarkets, AUKUS & Palestine
David Shoebridge’s challenge to Labor raises a question Australian politics always avoids: who should the economy – and the government – actually serve? For voters confronting rising grocery bills, unaffordable housing and growing corporate profits, assurances that the system is working are becoming a difficult sell. The Australian Greens are
Welcome to the Gronkocracy: How smart institutions become intellectually stupid
There is a particular type of person who does very well in large institutions. They are usually well qualified, understand the procedures and know precisely what constitutes an acceptable answer to an acceptable question. They are rarely considered to be fools in the conventional sense but their weakness is that