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Convoy to Canberra. Seven. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth.
By John Stapleton Four years ago Australia saw the largest demonstrations in its history, as hundreds of thousands of people descended on the nation’s capital. The Australian media and the Australian authorities colluded in lying about the numbers, and lied about the...
Convoy to Canberra. Six. Joy and Calamity, Brutality and Kindness
John Stapleton Four years ago Australia hundreds of thousands of people march on Canberra, disgusted by the extremism of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. At its peak, more than 12 million people were under lockdown protocols. While the authorities managed to crush the...
Convoy to Canberra. Five. We Will Wash Away Tyranny.
By John Stapleton Four years ago this month the largest mass protest in Australia history occurred. It was called the Convoy to Canberra, and protested the extreme abuses of Australian authorities during this era: including extreme lockdowns, for which there was no...
Nothing About This Dystopia Feels Natural
Reading by Tim Foley: Nothing about this dystopia feels natural. We all sense it deep in our marrow. We all know something has gone terribly wrong. If you lived in an alternate reality without wars or poverty, where everyone had enough and governments did what’s
We Should Not Fear The Tyrants; The Tyrants Should Fear Us
Reading by Tim Foley: If there were a thousand people living on an island, and one of them began making life miserable for everyone else, there would soon be 999 people living on the island. How strange, then, that a few oligarchs and empire managers
The Number Of Dead Iranian Protesters Keeps Changing Because It’s A Fictional Story
Reading by Tim Foley: The most common pro-war talking point about Iran is that they massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January of this year — but what’s funny is that they never cite the same number. Because it’s a completely fictional story, they can just
HAVE SOLD 126 TICKETS TO LAUNCH OF ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’. ROOM CAPACITY IS 140. WILL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU ARE ONE OF FINAL 14.
The launch of WALK IN THE SPIRIT is on Friday 27 March at Noon at the Royal on the Park in Alice Street Brisbane. The 126 who have bought tickets have paid 95 dollars each for a special Uluru Burger with a drink and coffee, as well as a signed book, with the surplus...
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
READING A SIGNED EVERALD BOOK IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY TO ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS BREAK.
Nothing better can happen to you during the holiday season than to spend a couple of hours every day in a cool spot under a shady tree reading an entertaining book that has a page-turning message to renew your soul. It won’t surprise you to discover that I...
Daily Reporting: Jeffrey Winmar inquest, Day 8, April 10th, 2026
Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please be advised this article mentions the name of an Aboriginal person who has died in custody. This article also mentions acts of violence. Accounts and names have been published with permission given to the author from the family. Day 8 – 10th
Daily Reporting: Jeffrey Winmar inquest, Day 7, April 9th, 2026
Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please be advised this article mentions the name of an Aboriginal person who has died in custody. This article also mentions acts of violence. Accounts and names have been published with permission given to the author from the family. Day 7 – 9
Daily Reporting: Jeffrey Winmar inquest, Day 5, April 7th, 2026
Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please be advised this article mentions the name of an Aboriginal person who has died in custody. This article also mentions acts of violence. Accounts and names have been published with permission given to the author from the family. Day 5 – 7th
Confused closures and opaque openings: continuing dramas in the Hormuz Strait
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and they are not better for it. The latest – and here, the latest will become distant and dated shortly – is that the
Liberals need to reconsider loyalty to the American Alliance
In light of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, destructive Middle East policies, and the resulting economic crisis and criticisms of Australia’s value as an ally, it is time to seriously review whether the long-running Australian-American Alliance needs a major recalibration, though not, at this stage, a termination. The American Alliance
The moral case for harm reduction
The argument over how society should respond to addiction is usually framed in medical or political terms, but beneath it lies a moral dispute: what kind of thing is addiction, and what does our answer imply about responsibility, dignity, and hope?Two models dominate public imagination. The abstinence model insists that
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Manufacturing division: The misguided immigration policies of the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party’s push for a so-called “values-based” immigration system, including proposals to scrutinise migrants’ social media accounts, is a real troubling development in Australian politics, not so much because we think it’s a politically winning strategy – it’s not – but because one of Australia’s mainstream political parties –
Appeasing Washington, neglecting Australia – the Weekly Brief
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: more useless military spending by the Australian government… Queensland arrests for pro-Palestine banners… Trump’s on-again, off-again war… the slow decline of One Nation.Australia’s stance in the on-again/off-again/on-again US–Iran confrontation is once again exposing the duplicity of a political class
Green populism, come on down! Your time has come
Populism in Australian politics is often framed as a right-wing phenomenon, driven by figures like Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce, but this episode of the New Politics podcast challenges that narrative by exploring the potential of left-wing populism through the Australian Greens.We outline how populism is not so much an