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Hate Speech Laws Hit the High Court: The Crushing of Australian Dissent
Mired in scandal and plummeting in popularity, the Albanese government is desperate to crush free speech in Australia any way it can. Australia’s new hate-speech laws, rammed through Parliament with almost no public consultation and the full support of the Opposition,...
Fat Daddy: Three Broken Families, One Broken System
Hear the author live. P. Collo joins us for a conversation at 9:30am AEST today. Listen live via Café Locked Out on Rumble, Facebook, and X. The recording will be embedded here afterward. Signed copies will also be made available through Café Locked Out’s Banned Books...
The Welcome Wears Thin: Australia’s Mass Immigration Outruns Cohesion
There is no hotter issue in Australia today than mass migration. The public sentiment has soured dramatically. A once reasonably successful immigrant nation has become hostile to strangers, and the divide between the nation’s political elites and the average citizen...
All Our Problems Are Caused By Believed Narrative
Video reading by Tim Foley: All our problems basically come down to narrative control. People are manipulated into believing the story that Israel’s existence must be preserved at all cost because of this religious belief or that political ideology. People are manipulated into believing the
Military-Industrial Complex Assures Investors That Wars Will Be Endless, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Today in dystopia, the military-industrial complex is reassuring investors that the wars will indeed be endless. Asked about concerns over falling defense stocks in a recent interview on CNBC, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet replied, “Investors need to know
ALL Art Is Political When You Live In A Genocidal Dystopia
Video reading by Tim Foley: During a speech at the Las Vegas Sphere on Saturday, Metallica frontman James Hetfield took aim at artists like Macklemore for making political statements about the genocide in Gaza during their concerts. “I just gotta say, Metallica is not here,
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 Fifth Estate is becoming the only trusted truth
For almost a century the media stood as the “Fourth Estate,” charged with keeping governments honest by exposing what those in power preferred to hide. It brought a measure of transparency and accountability to both parliamentary and presidential systems of government. The Fourth Estate exposed Watergate, the realities of Vietnam,
The language of extermination: NAZA, artificial intelligence and Gaza
The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening. It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during its ferocious, unremitting war in Gaza, drawing upon the interviews of 24 anonymised military and intelligence personnel. The interviews were filmed on Tel Aviv rooftops at
Males accused of violence are typically treated more harshly than their female counterparts
The public is rightly revolted by violence, especially where it occurs in the home or where children, innocent people, or vulnerable partners are victims. That said, officialdom, the media and the public do seem too often to react differently, depending on whether the alleged perpetrator is male or female. Domestic
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Death in America: The execution will not be televised
The proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution exposed a disturbing direction in American politics: state violence packaged for an audience, with cruelty promoted as evidence of strength. Donald Trump has since cancelled the broadcast, but the political questions raised by Pete Hegseth’s proposal remain: what happens when a government treats
Australia’s Red Line Package: Human rights for sale
Australia’s commitment to international law becomes considerably less convincing when enforcing it might disrupt defence contracts, the flow of dirty investments or strategic alliances. The Albanese government’s resistance to the Red Lines Package exposes this inherent contradiction: they will always condemns atrocities overseas, while continuing to make sure that Australian
PFAS, housing and climate: Luciana Carusi’s fight for the Blue Mountains
The coming NSW election asks a question that reaches beyond which party forms government: how much influence do communities actually have over the decisions shaping their lives? In the Blue Mountains, disputes over development, PFAS water contamination, housing affordability and climate policy expose a widening gap between being consulted and