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John’s Bike: Australia’s Broken Heartlands
Give me your bike. This was 2 a.m. in a carpark in Bunbury. John, 79, left his car’s rear door open so his dog could get out. Now a large, ice-affected man in his mid-forties had his head in the door, and despite the dog going mental, he said again. Give me your bike....
Albanese’s Dirt File on Helen Haines: Revenge, Rank Hypocrisy and the Vicious Undermining of an Elected Official
Just weeks before independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberately rammed twice by a vehicle outside her Wangaratta office, resulting in the amputation of both legs and leaving her in critical condition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office circulated a...
Albanese’s Opportunism: Helen Haines Attacked, Motive Unknown, Politics Instant
Helen Haines, the independent member for Indi, remains in critical condition after a man deliberately drove a Toyota LandCruiser into her outside her Wangaratta electorate office. She has lost both legs. Police have charged 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, a local with a...
The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Preparing Another Iran Attack, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Well, it looks like they’re going to attack Iran again. Might be after the US midterms. Might be sooner. President Trump is telling the press that he is done negotiating with the Iranians and that something will be happening
I Love You Guys
Video reading by Tim Foley: I don’t really fit in with any group. Too woo-woo spiritual for the Marxists. Too angry for the Buddhists. Too political for the nondualists. Too much of a liberal-hating commie for the witches. Too radical for the socdems or demsocs.
All Our Problems Are Caused By Believed Narrative
Video reading by Tim Foley: All our problems basically come down to narrative control. People are manipulated into believing the story that Israel’s existence must be preserved at all cost because of this religious belief or that political ideology. People are manipulated into believing the
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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COP31’s inconvenient truth: the world still runs on oil
I. Bonn exposed a world that isn’t moving as oneIn June 2026, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany was meant to prepare the ground for COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, this November 9th -20th. Instead, it exposed how far the world remains from a unified path toward decarbonization.
Attempted assassinations: the attack on Helen Haines
It is not a good time to be a politician. Prices are rising with extortionate speed. Foolish wars continue being waged. The banksters are in clover. Corporate oligarchies are humming along. The thieves in artificial intelligence are gloating about an end of civilisation they are happy to exploit for commercial
Dancing the macarena with an AI bot
I’ve just had another run-in with Artificial Intelligence over one of the many controversies embroiling the Labor Government and its hapless Ministers during the past week, before it reluctantly admitted it was wrong.Selecting just one individual from the bunch recently exposed in the media spotlight is a bit like the
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The politics of violence and blame
The alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines in Wangaratta raises a question that goes far beyond parliamentary security: what happens to Australian democracy when public service carries an increasing risk of personal harm? Access to elected representatives is essential to political accountability, but that openness becomes harder to sustain
Rising violence, stalled reform and double standards: how can we bring down the temperature?
The alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines in regional Victoria raises some disturbing questions about political hostility, the intimidation of elected representatives and the increasingly toxic environment in which Australian politics is operating in.Before drawing the conclusions about what occurred – and it’s not clear at this stage what
Death in America: The execution will not be televised
The proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution exposed a disturbing direction in American politics: state violence packaged for an audience, with cruelty promoted as evidence of strength. Donald Trump has since cancelled the broadcast, but the political questions raised by Pete Hegseth’s proposal remain: what happens when a government treats