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On interviewing the last surviving Anzac
By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell, that...
Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast
Loukas Koungoulos, The University of Western Australia; Isaac A. R. Kerr, Flinders University, and Sue O’Connor, Australian National University Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First...
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,...
We’re Being Plunged Into Dystopia When We Could Be Living In Paradise
Reading by Tim Foley: It’s funny the things that get to you when you’ve been at this for a while. Today the thing that smacked me upside the head and made me lay my face in my hands for a minute was a viral video
‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ Delivers A Penetrating Insight Into The Heart Of Our Dystopia
Reading by Tim Foley: There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before. The
There Will Be Times, Oh My Child, When It All Seems Hopeless
Reading by Tim Foley: There will be times, oh my child, when it all seems hopeless. When the trees all have QR codesand the bank boys and balrogsare holding all the cards. When your refrigerator tells you “THE IRANIAN PEOPLE YEARN FOR FREEDOM”and your electric shaver can smellif
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...
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...
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Germany’s nuclear energy regrets
“Don’t follow Germany on energy policy.” That was American Experiment’s most recent of many, many warnings over the years, about copying the German move towards 100 percent renewable or clean power. That is the bad news. The worse news is that Germany effectively banned the cleanest of electricity generation sources. Clean
From genocide to justice: Iraq’s reparations for Yazidi survivors
On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as ISIL or Da’esh) launched a coordinated attack on the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, home to much of Iraq’s Yazidi community. Men and older women were killed, women and girls were subjected to sexual violence and enslavement, boys were
Magnifica Humanitas: hope in the age of AI
Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical, “Magnificent Humanity,” brings ancient understandings of human needs and possibilities to bear on our commitments to ultra-modern digital technologies. Avoiding both technophobic pessimism and blinkered optimism about AI technologies, the encyclical points rather to hope, a potent political alternative to the often-dismal imperatives of Realpolitik.In
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Australia’s broken political system
Politics is disappointing, but does it always have to be this disappointing? It’s a question that we’re always asked at New Politics and becomes harder to avoid after a week in which the Prime Minister attended an exclusive fundraiser at a Point Piper mansion, Labor members gathered at a national
The arrogance of power: Labor’s complacency is becoming its biggest threat
This might be the point where Labor’s massive parliamentary majority develops the complacency that eventually destroys all governments, irrespective of which side they come from. Anthony Albanese is facing questions over an exclusive fundraiser at a $40 million Point Piper mansion, where guests were “encouraged” to contribute $10,000 each –
Burnham’s Britain: Renewal or more disappointment?
Andy Burnham’s arrival as British prime minister could represent more than another change of leadership: it will become a test of whether a modern Labour government can finally make a break with Thatcherism and neoliberalism. His promises of cost-of-living relief, social housing, regional investment, stronger public services and greater economic