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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...
Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation. The Book. The Author Interview.
Drawing on research from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, Mindless exposes how education has been captured by radical ideas that elevate victimhood, identity politics and climate alarmism above learning. To watch the Sunday morning Rumble podcast...
Dr Bruce Paix. The Rumble Interview.
Yes, jail. Arrested on bogus charges that were later thrown out in court, Bruce was locked up for seven days — all of it in isolation. That was when he first collided with A Sense of Place Magazine. We interviewed him on the same day he was released. To see the...
Why I Hold Out Hope For Humanity
Reading by Tim Foley: I hold out hope because people aren’t buying the propaganda like they used to. I hold out hope because trust in the imperial media is at an all-time low while our ability to attack and discredit the official narrative is at
They’re Still Pushing The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza
Reading by Tim Foley: Israel is still pushing for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They keep trying different angles and rebranding it under different names, but the end goal has remained the same since October 2023: the removal of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
The Din
Reading by Caitlin Johnstone: They’re designing park benchesso that homeless people can’t sleep on themand placing metal spikes beneath overpassesso they can’t be used as shelter. Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn’t existand that sometimes socks go missing in the dryer,wocka wockaha ha hait’s funny because
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
The AUKUS spectre
By August I will be 85. I came here 64 years ago on a Colombo Plan Scholarship to what was God’s own country, my childhood imagination inspired by the ever-joyful matronly Methodist missionaries from Southern America. In 1984 Professor Geoffrey Blainey would blast me out of that reverie. Since then,
From healing to harm
Medicine is fundamentally oriented toward healing. Physicians have cured diseases, alleviated pain, extended life expectancy, and expanded collective self-understanding beyond what was conceivable a century ago. Few professions have contributed more to human well-being. However, medicine also confers significant power. Physicians influence individual behavior, shape public policy, direct scientific research,
Can Angus Taylor rekindle the romance?
Last week I went to an LNP event for small business with Angus Taylor as the guest speaker. It’s my first LNP event ever, and it was also the first time for a significant proportion of the audience.Three-hundred people turned-up. That’s a significant number. It was a free breakfast, but
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A new logo won’t save the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party’s latest bout of soul-searching has arrived at a very familiar point: the problem isn’t the packaging, it’s what’s inside the package. Following another round of disastrous opinion poll numbers, senior figures of the Liberal Party are openly discussing a rebrand, with suggestions that the party’s name may
Starmer’s downfall should be a warning sign for Albanese
Keir Starmer’s resignation as British Prime Minister after just 18 months in office is more than another chapter in the United Kingdom’s revolving-door leadership. It raises a much bigger question for centre-left governments across the democratic world: why do parties elected on promises of transformational change so often end up
Hansonism and the rise of racist neoliberalism
Pauline Hanson is often described as angry, but the anger in itself is not the problem. We’ve seen historically that anger can be one of the great drivers of democracy: it has exposed the humiliation, exploitation and abandonment of people by terrible governments in the past, will continue to do