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A Sense of Place Magazine

New Music Video: CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died

I decided to put in some extra effort and make a proper video for my reading of my poem about Gloria Steinem, with music and video accompaniment. Enjoy! _________________ The best way to make sure you see everything I publish is to get on my free mailing list. My work

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CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone: CIA veteran Gloria Steinem has died.She helped Langley win the Cold Warwhile women remain blacksited and brokenraining teeth from bloody mouthslike the reds in Pinochet’s torture camps. In this CIA civilization womenslap name tags over baby vomit stainssmiling ear to ear for chortling customerswho shovel cheesecarbs

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Hey Americans! Escape Debt By Going To War With Iran!

Reading by Tim Foley: Today in dystopia, war pundits have begun suggesting that the US could recruit sufficient troops for a ground invasion of Iran by offering young Americans debt forgiveness in exchange for enlisting. I guess it was only a matter of time. In

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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...

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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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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.

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Saving lives should not require permission

When did saving a life start to feel like breaking the rules? When did the doctor at the bedside become less trusted than the people making decisions from far away, such as administrators, regulators, or distant experts who have never met the patient? And how did a profession built on

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The limit of coercion: Israel’s strategic delusion

The asymmetry of power between states and non-state actors-or between dominant governments and weaker national movements-has defined many of the world’s most enduring conflicts. From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan, from Algeria to Sri Lanka, history offers repeated examples of struggles in which a materially and militarily weaker party ultimately abandons

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The real secret of Secret Harbour

The real secret of Secret Harbour is that One Nation’s national vote may actually be much higher than we think it is.When you look at a federal poll and you take away half those who voted Coalition just as recently as 2019 and add it to Pauline Hanson’s 6.40 per

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New Politics

Labor’s One Nation problem

One Nation’s byelection win in Secret Harbour is a warning sign for the Albanese government, and the federal Labor Party would be wise to read it correctly. We look at why a minor party gained an 18 per cent swing in a seat WA Labor had held for 37 years,

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We cannot forget about Zomi Frankcom

The weekend saw something disturbing on the streets of Sydney, when 39 Israeli soldiers and military veterans – many of whom had been involved in the military campaigns in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon – were granted visas to enter Australia and allowed to run in the Sydney Marathon.The Australian

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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

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