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Aboriginal Allodial Sovereign Rights: The Interview Three Years on From Australia’s Voice to Parliament Referendum
Steven Porter: Moree Three years on from Australia’s polarising Voice to Parliament Referendum, the debate over Indigenous recognition, sovereignty, and rights continues to resonate. In October 2023, Australians decisively voted No, rejecting the proposal to enshrine...
Scott Kuru: Australia is about to become the World’s Fastest Dying Country
A new generation of podcasters is transforming Australia’s media. One of the best is property expert Scott Kuru. His signature blend of data, outrage, and calls to individual action paints a picture of avoidable decline accelerating through poor policy choices....
How drug demand in New Zealand and Australia is driving calls for the death penalty in Fiji
By Kya Raina Lal, Auckland University of Technology Fiji is at the centre of an illicit narcotics crisis described as a national emergency, driven by an escalating demand for hard drugs in Australia and New Zealand. Drugs, particularly cocaine and methamphetamine, are...
The Cure For Despair Is Awe, Wonder, And Humility
Reading by Tim Foley: The cure for despair is awe, wonder, and humility. It is true that there is unfathomable cruelty in this world that will bring you crashing to your knees. And it is true that we are ruled by monsters with deeply entrenched
Today In Dystopia
Reading by Tim Foley: Today in dystopia Americans are becoming increasingly outraged by the ubiquitousness of Flock’s AI-assisted surveillance cameras throughout US cities. Flock officers getting caught in lies and viral video footage of police abusing their access to the technology have contributed to the
Manipulators Do Not Use Language The Same Way Normal People Do
Reading by Tim Foley: The world would be a much better place if everyone understood that manipulators do not use language the same way normal people do. Normal people use language to communicate and connect, while manipulative people use language to control and extract. Propagandists,
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...
JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 5 FOR A ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AROUND ULURU
Five years ago on my 90th birthday I walked with 50 friends along an old rail corridor in the Brisbane River Valley from my old hometown of Linville to Moore and back again, a distance of 14 kilometres. I completed the walk in three hours and raised $35000 for Dorcas...
ITS TIME TO BUILD COMMUNITIES NOT DIVIDED BY RELIGION.
WALK WITH THE SPIRIT is a page-turning novel about people – Christian, Muslim, Jew, Confucian, Indigenous, LGBTI, Atheist – who try to create a caring and sharing and generous society in the Queensland City of Rockhampton despite the current international war in which...
A reflection on Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week 2026
It’s Sorry Day and Reconciliation week and I’m reminded again that language matters. White people tell me this constantly.Use the right language.Tone it down.Be careful how you say it.Be professional.Be strategic.Be calm.Be nice. Because language matters. And yet I keep watching white people use language as a weapon against Aboriginal
Scrutinising the unpardonable: the AUKUS public inquiry so far
In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of the most mindless, absurd projects of tiny, poorly furnished minds. Not for those in the UK and US, with both receiving Croesus-rich dollops of
‘A Fair Go’ for all
Some stories are written into constitutions. Others become famous slogans that capture the values a nation hopes to live by.Australia has never quite found its own. That is surprising, because Australia is unlike any other country on earth. Our story begins with the world’s oldest continuing cultures. It includes convicts
Discrimination is not always the moral and commercial wrong it is made out to be
People (rightly) get upset if they are a victim of discrimination in employment or in receiving entitlements from government. In large measure this reflects a widespread conviction that the merit principle should be paramount in such matters. Regretfully, merit and purely commercial considerations are often subverted to other agendas.There is
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Was Menzies a Nazi appeaser? The history is more complicated
Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy was right to argue at his National Press Club address that Labor should not surrender patriotism, defence or national security to the conservative side of politics. He was also right that Menzies’ record on appeasement is considerably more complicated than the polished version preserved by
Labor’s conference shows a party that no longer knows what it stands for
Labor conferences are carefully stage-managed affairs. The delegates will cheer, the leaders will deliver their polished speeches, and all the awkward debates are quietly buried behind procedural motions – except for a few orchestrated and tolerated tiffs – and everyone leaves declaring unity has been achieved. But there are far
The Politics of Outrage: When anger becomes the business model
The politics of outrage is no longer just a style of campaigning – it has become one of the dominant business models within modern media and democracy. As podcasts, social media and creator platforms replace traditional gatekeepers, the algorithms increasingly reward anger, conflict and cultural warfare over the evidence and