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Australia’s Hopeless Internet: Information Super Highway turns into Goat Track
In Penong, on the Nullarbor, the Ampol station is the only public room for a hundred kilometres in any direction that pretends to offer the internet. I sat there for an hour yesterday trying to join the Telstra public network. The connection never arrived. The manager...
The Worst Week of Australia’s Failing Prime Minister
Fiji for him. The power bill for everyone else. The man who promised cheaper power is in Fiji. The woman who never promised anything of the sort is packing halls in Victoria. Between those two facts sits the ugliest week of Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership. On...
Two of the Greatest Creative Spirits of Our Age join forces: Nick Cave and Maria Popova together
There are affinities that feel less like coincidence than recognition. For years Maria Popova, the Bulgarian-born, New York-based polymath behind The Marginalian, has returned again and again to the work of Nick Cave — not as fan service, but as a mind meeting another...
No One Gives A Fuck About October 7
Video reading by Tim Foley: No one gives a fuck about October 7. No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state
You Are Morally Obligated To Oppose Genocide And Apartheid Regardless Of Your Religion
Reading by Tim Foley: I judge Jewish people’s character based on whether or not they oppose the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. This is also how I judge the character of people who are not Jewish. Ever since the UK Green party’s “Zionism is racism”
Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology
Video reading by Tim Foley: On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining the ideology as “an ethnonationalist political project.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, was immediately banned by the Israeli government from
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...
PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.
The portrait of me was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church. On my 95th I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can...
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Australia needs to reduce oil imports
[The war in the Middle East has] turbocharged fuel costs and Australians are paying a very hefty price – Treasurer Jim Chalmers Australia is already spending $50–70bn a year buying imported fuel. We need to ask how much additional cost is economically rational to pay to reduce strategic risk attached to
Recognition, right, and the stateless: a Fichtean critique of the plight of the Rohingya
I. Introduction: the moral and philosophical scandal of statelessnessFew conditions so starkly expose the limits of our moral and political order as those of the stateless person. For Hannah Arendt, the refugee or stateless individual-deprived of citizenship and stripped of political belonging-reveals “the right to have rights” as the first
Weaponised domestic violence orders – state sanctioned parental alienation
We talk endlessly about parental alienation as something one parent does to another. It is usually pictured as a campaign, waged in the shadow of a family court, to turn a child against a father. But there is a bigger, colder version of the same thing happening. It isn’t being
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Welcome to the Gronkocracy: How smart institutions become intellectually stupid
There is a particular type of person who does very well in large institutions. They are usually well qualified, understand the procedures and know precisely what constitutes an acceptable answer to an acceptable question. They are rarely considered to be fools in the conventional sense but their weakness is that
Why the FlyDubai story doesn’t add up, a Greens left turn and Australia’s politics of power
The FlyDubai story has got everything a government under political pressure could possibly dream of, especially several weeks out from a general election: a terrifying mid-air attack involving a knife (or was it an axe), an alleged jihadist, Israeli passengers in mortal danger, and a heroic intervention from a plumber
Will David Shoebridge give Labor the boot?
David Shoebridge’s ambition to replace Labor puts a larger question at the centre of Australian politics: can the Australian Greens become a party voters trust to govern? After losing three lower-house seats at the 2025 federal election, including Adam Bandt’s seat, the Greens face the ultimate challenge: they need to