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Sunday Morning At Cafe Locked Out: This Week’s Guest John Shipton
John Shipton is an Australian architect and anti-war activist, best known as the biological father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Born around 1944, he met Christine Hawkins at a Vietnam War rally in 1970. Their relationship ended before or shortly after Julian’s...
On interviewing the last surviving Anzac
By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell, that...
Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast
Loukas Koungoulos, The University of Western Australia; Isaac A. R. Kerr, Flinders University, and Sue O’Connor, Australian National University Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First...
There Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Even In Armageddon.
Reading by Tim Foley: One point I will always adamantly insist on is that it’s entirely possible to live a joyful and exuberant life in the midst of this abusive dystopia. There’s a pervasive, unexamined notion throughout revolutionary politics that there’s some kind of nobility
ALL Mainstream Western Institutions View Palestinian Lives As Worthless
Reading by Tim Foley: The BBC recently interviewed an Israeli settler who said that all the Palestinians in four surrounding villages should be exterminated to avenge an Israeli who was killed while terrorizing a Palestinian village last month, adding that just a single Jewish life
“I’m Not Political” Just Means “I Support The Status Quo”
Reading by Tim Foley: Saying “I’m not into politics” is just saying “I support status quo politics.” It’s saying you endorse all the violence, exploitation, ecocide and abuse of the current order. Politics are always happening all around you in every moment of every day,
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...
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...
Our Children are the Treaty generation
Sheree Lowe is VACCHO’s Executive Director of the Social Emotional Wellbeing unit and the Balit Durn Durn Centre. Sheree is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with strong ties to Southwest Victoria and has lived most of her life on Wadawurrung Country. She was an elected member of the south
Horse, anyone? Equine spotting in the food chain
The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its presence. In a world of mass supply, changing of hands, and bewilderingly complex distribution channels, can anyone be sure that the final product is what it’s marked to
Regulations are choking the state of Victoria
Victoria has become one of the toughest places in Australia to run a business, build homes or invest your money. The problem isn’t that people have stopped working hard or taking risks, there are plenty of good business people out there who want to expand, employ more staff and
The Ukraine–Russia war: where things stand at the end of July 2026
Half the year has now passed us by, and it is worth asking ourselves where this war is heading! Certainly, from Ukraine’s perspective, it can be summarised in these three words: Escalation, Innovation and Endurance!July 2026 marked one of the most significant months of the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion
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Antisemitism education as the new propaganda
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion commenced as an examination of prejudice and “social cohesion” – the Prime Minister’s most favourite phrase – but is now developing into an attempt to hijack Australian educational institutions and redefine acceptable political debate, according to the diktats of a very small,
Power, distraction and the price of political failure
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has become something far bigger than an inquiry into antisemitism. What began as an examination of discrimination and social cohesion is now becoming a plot to reshaping education, public institutions and the boundaries of acceptable political debate. The proposal by the Special
Reclaiming democracy for the people
Australian democracy isn’t totally broken and unfixable, but political power is increasingly flowing towards those with the money, influence and access to shape government decisions. Anthony Albanese’s appearance at a $10,000-a-head fundraiser, the widening divide between Labor’s national conference and its parliamentary leadership, instability inside Victorian Labor, and ideological conflict