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The Biggest Story in Australia: The Economy
The Australian economy is not quietly deteriorating. It is being publicly flogged, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is taking the whip. The front pages of the past seven days have read like a charge sheet. “What would you cut?” Chalmers challenges critics of government...
Spring at Barren Grounds
The plateau at Barren Grounds, on the Illawarra escarpment above the south coast of NSW, is the southern remnant of a much larger sheet of Middle Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone, laid down more than 200 million years ago as the Sydney Basin filled with river and coastal...
Triumph of the Whales
The humpback whale migration up and down the east coast of Australia is one of the great natural wonders of the world. As November settles over the east coast, the last of the humpbacks are heading south. Mothers with calves, the late travellers, slip past the...
The Viral Red Baron Employee’s Fundraiser Is A Feel-Bad Story
Video reading by Tim Foley: The viral Red Baron Pizza worker and his $500,000 fundraiser is not a feel-good story, it’s a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed. If you haven’t seen the video going around, here
Australia’s “Antisemitism Envoy” Says The Pro-Palestine Left Are The Real Nazis
Video reading by Tim Foley: Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has released a new report claiming that the primary threat to Jews in our country comes from left-wing pro-Palestine activists, which Segal hilariously labels “issue-motivated antisemitism”. (Genocide. The “issue” is genocide.) This, obviously, is an
Revolution Or Extinction. The Choice Is Ours.
Video reading by Tim Foley: Humanity has the freedom to fail this test and go the way of the dinosaur. We’re allowed to take that path if that’s what we collectively choose to do. We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers
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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Ukraine at the crossroads of global power and the changing international order
The war between Ukraine and Russia has evolved into much more than a territorial conflict between two neighbouring states. It has become a central point of confrontation within a changing international order, bringing together the strategic interests of the United States, Russia, China, the European Union, NATO and a range
The disastrous decade of dating
Is it any wonder men are opting out? That’s the question I asked here on Substack last May, describing the young women so many men find on offer in today’s marriage market: “miserable, anxious, politically radicalised, contemptuous of men, often sexually rejecting and trained to see
Why multiculturalism remains a fictional concept in Greece
This article, focusing on Greece, a country of interest to me given I was born to Greek parents before becoming a ward of state from the age of four, explains why its approach to cultural diversity has always been heavily influenced by geopolitical concerns within a view that certain cultural
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Albanese’s mid-term test: Labor’s struggle to restore trust and ward off One Nation
A government can survive an unpopular prime minister but it becomes more vulnerable when voters stop believing it can improve their lives. For Anthony Albanese, the big question is whether Labor can turn its parliamentary strength into changes people can actually feel.With Labor and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation level on
Serbia, Brazil and Israel votes: Is the far right losing ground?
Authoritarian politics thrives on the appearance of inevitability: the strongman who cannot be defeated, the opposition can never be allowed to govern, and voters have nowhere else to go. Election results in Serbia and Brazil have challenged that narrative, raising a question with consequences that go far beyond their borders:
Europe’s revolt and the future of neoliberalism
The most politically significant images coming out of France are of the crowds who have decided that their government is no longer listening, and that the economic conditions that they are repeatedly told to accept are failing to deliver a viable and acceptable future.Last week, hundreds of thousands of people