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Vale Australian Journalist: Derryn Hinch the Human Headline
Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne It was May 1999 and Derryn Hinch had been called into the manager’s office at Adelaide’s 5DN. The ratings for his morning program had been tumbling, and after less than a year on air he was told to pack his things. At the time,...
Aboriginal Allodial Sovereign Rights: The Interview Three Years on From Australia’s Voice to Parliament Referendum
Steven Porter: Moree Three years on from Australia’s polarising Voice to Parliament Referendum, the debate over Indigenous recognition, sovereignty, and rights continues to resonate. In October 2023, Australians decisively voted No, rejecting the proposal to enshrine...
Scott Kuru: Australia is about to become the World’s Fastest Dying Country
A new generation of podcasters is transforming Australia’s media. One of the best is property expert Scott Kuru. His signature blend of data, outrage, and calls to individual action paints a picture of avoidable decline accelerating through poor policy choices....
Trump Is NOT A Reluctant War President
Reading by Tim Foley: America’s latest forever war continues to ravage the middle east as US forces bomb Iran for the tenth consecutive night in a series of exchanges which The New York Times reports have caused a significantly higher number of injuries to US
Revolutionary Optimism Takes Practice
Reading by Tim Foley: Revolutionary optimism is a skill that you learn over time. Like any other skill, it takes practice to get good at it. Like any other skill, it can seem very difficult when you first start trying. Before you’re well-practiced in the
Where The Real Romance Begins
Reading by Tim Foley: Written by Tim Foley. The movie always ends with the boy getting the girl, that’s the problem. Jack Nicholson tells Helen Hunt “I’m gonna grab ya” and then they kiss and the credits roll, and they leave out all the hard
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 ABC of misinformation coming to a library near you
Who’d have guessed that a quick read of an email from our local library would have caused me to almost spill my morning cup of cappuccino as I laughed at the irony and sheer hypocrisy of an upcoming ” Matter of Facts Workshop” on misinformation.That topic could be helpful if
Australia doesn’t have a housing crisis, it has an innovation crisis
For years Australians have been told that housing affordability is one of the nation’s greatest priorities. Every election brings new promises, billion-dollar funding announcements, ambitious housing targets, taskforces and policy reviews. Yet despite all the rhetoric, home ownership continues to move further out of reach for ordinary Australians, rental vacancies
Acting the goose: Pauline Hanson’s tour of Old Blighty
Acting the goose: Pauline Hanson’s tour of Old BlightyShe has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as a garden variety racist, Pauline Hanson of the One Nation Party now boasts a degree of popularity that
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Hanson’s white-privilege tour, sponsored by the billionaire class
Pauline Hanson has used the UK Conservative Political Action Conference – speaking in a room where there were far more empty seats than people – to announce that she was “sick of hearing about white privilege”, would “not apologise for being white” and held “fears for England”. Seemingly wanting to
The price of speaking out: Art, Palestine and the MSO
The Federal Court might have ended pianist Jayson Gillham’s legal battle with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, but its decision leaves a far more consequential issue unresolved: how much freedom do artists genuinely have when their political expression conflicts with the interests of cultural institutions, donors and influential lobby groups? Although
The Royal Commission and silencing the critics of Israel
Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion was established to confront genuine antisemitism and help repair social division, but what happens when an inquiry intended to promote cohesion appears to elevate politically useful testimony, interrogate dissenting voices and leave the underlying causes of public anger largely unexplored?We examine the