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Playing God: Scientists propose ‘gradual population decline’ to four billion people
From TOTT News A new study has proposed that the world should gradually reduce its population to around four billion people to ‘ease pressure on the planet’s resources and ecosystems’, as the grand eugenics transhumanist replacement agenda pushes on. Researchers say...
Ramesh Thakur on the Iran War: Diplomacy, Deterrence and the Nuclear Shadow. The Interview.
Few people can speak to this conflict with the combination of institutional memory, field experience and intellectual honesty that Thakur brings. As a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General who worked the Iran nuclear file in its earlier years, visited the...
Australia’s Broken Heartlands: Michael Gray Griffith. The Interview.
Goodbye Road: Australia’s Broken Heartlands is one of the rawest, most poignant, powerful and consequential books of the 2020s. Here author Michael Gray Griffith, speaking from an abandoned industrial park in Western Australia, talks in depth about the creation of the...
AI Oligarchs Are Poisoning Our Society — New Issue Of JOHNSTONE
The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Altman said he knows most people hate the technology that he and his fellow
Supporters Of Capitalism Are Victims Of Their Own Cognitive Biases
Reading by Tim Foley: People who believe capitalism is working out great are just sloppy thinkers who’ve fallen victim to survivorship bias and the just-world fallacy. Survivorship bias is when your analysis focuses on those who made it while ignoring those who didn’t. You got
Israeli Officials Promote Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories About Israel
Reading by Tim Foley: Israeli officials have spent recent days circulating antisemitic conspiracy theories, with Benjamin Netanyahu boasting that he manipulated the United States into war with Iran, and Itamar Ben-Gvir sharing an AI video of Palestinians being sent to Nazi-style concentration camps. In an
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...
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...
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.
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
No Swans song
The Swans fiasco had it all. Here was feminism’s prized foe – brash young footballers hoovering up millions for kicking a ball – caught in the mother of all own goals. An early morning hotel frolic, paid strippers, industrial quantities of drugs, and a sexual assault allegation. Christmas had come
Youth will pay price for WFH
Not Jacinta Allan? Prove it Premier. “I’m not Daniel Andrews or Jacinta Allan,” Ben Carroll declared when he took the top job. One month later, the oldest trick in the Labor playbook. The Premier intends to ram through the Work from Home Bill this week, delay the implementation until next
Australia’s energy transition: how’s it going?
Australia’s energy transition – heard of it? You must have. But what exactly is it? And how’s it going?In a nutshell, it’s about clean energy, renewables, climate change, Canberra, top politicians — and good news, especially from government sources. At the top is the Minister for Climate Change and Energy,
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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
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
Football First, Women Last
The allegations surrounding five Sydney Swans players have become one of the most serious controversies of the AFL season, yet much of the early discussion focused not on the women who reported the alleged sexual assaults, but on suspended players, damaged careers, premiership prospects and the reputation of the club.