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You Can Become a Pot Plant: NSW Legalises Humans Made into Soil
New South Wales has become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise terramation – human composting – as a third option alongside burial and cremation. Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich’s private member’s bill, the Public Health Amendment (Terramation) Bill...
Beer in Hand, Albanese has watched one Australian Brewery after another go bust
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is rarely far from a beer. Cameras have caught him chugging one in the crowd at a Gang of Youths concert in his home city, pouring at Gage Roads in Fremantle, or turning up at a Downing Street dinner with a four-pack of “Albo’s Pale...
John’s Bike: Australia’s Broken Heartlands
Give me your bike. This was 2 a.m. in a carpark in Bunbury. John, 79, left his car’s rear door open so his dog could get out. Now a large, ice-affected man in his mid-forties had his head in the door, and despite the dog going mental, he said again. Give me your bike....
There Are Polymarket Ads In Fortune Cookies
Reading by Tim Foley: There are Polymarket ads in fortune cookies.There are pop-ups in our prayers.There are paywalls on the monasteries,and the monks are millionaires. Well little Johnny’s gone to war.He joined the McMarines.The Iranians must be liberatedand blown to smithereens. Light a candle in
Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism
Video reading by Tim Foley: I’m still thinking about the admission in the UK’s “antisemitism” review contradicting widespread claims by the western political/media class that antisemitism is rising to dangerous levels throughout our society. We discussed this yesterday, but as a reminder, the UK’s Department
The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Preparing Another Iran Attack, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Well, it looks like they’re going to attack Iran again. Might be after the US midterms. Might be sooner. President Trump is telling the press that he is done negotiating with the Iranians and that something will be happening
THE FIVE OF MY LIFE
Nigel Marsh produces an excellent and popular podcast that he calls THE FIVE OF MY LIFE. He has a national and international audience and invited me to be his guest this week. I enjoyed the chat immensely. It was very challenging in a relaxed and friendly manner. 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...
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Australia’s regional AI skills gap needs paid workplace trials
A regional mechanic can learn to use AI to draft a customer estimate in an afternoon. The harder question comes the next morning: Can that mechanic identify an invented replacement part, challenge an unsafe repair instruction, and explain the final recommendation to a customer? A certificate for completing an
Judged against our time: seven assessment questions
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COP31’s inconvenient truth: the world still runs on oil
I. Bonn exposed a world that isn’t moving as oneIn June 2026, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany was meant to prepare the ground for COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, this November 9th -20th. Instead, it exposed how far the world remains from a unified path toward decarbonization.
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Neoliberalism’s long winter of discontent
How long can governments ask people to endure hardship before the promise of a better future loses its political value? France’s protests over rising living costs and underfunded public services bring that question into focus. Violence and looting deserve condemnation, but allowing them to dominate the debate obscures the grievances
Wong’s Palestine election demand: Who will protect the voters under occupation?
Demanding an election is easy. Ensuring people can safely campaign, reach a polling station and choose their representatives is a much harder test of commitment to democracy. Penny Wong’s criticism of the postponed Palestinian elections raises a basic question for Australian foreign policy: what responsibilities should come with the demand
The politics of violence and blame
The alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines in Wangaratta raises a question that goes far beyond parliamentary security: what happens to Australian democracy when public service carries an increasing risk of personal harm? Access to elected representatives is essential to political accountability, but that openness becomes harder to sustain