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Australia is now a US base: A foreign military has the run of the country
The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars. What has changed is the density of that usefulness. The Nautilus Institute, an American security think tank with a nuclear disarmament brief funded mainly by American philanthropic foundations,...
The Death of the Australian Liberal Party: 1944 – 2026
The Australian Liberal Party is not in trouble. It is finished. Their demise, years in the making, has been well earned. For international readers, in the Upside Down World known as Australia, the Liberal Party are the nation’s conservatives. Repeated warnings from...
Australians Under Watch: Facial Recognition Becomes All Pervasive
Walk a Perth street, enter a hardware store, queue at a stadium gate or present a driver’s licence and the same technology may already be reading your face. This month Western Australia Police reported that an Australia-first live facial recognition trial had scanned...
Meditations On The Botched Execution Of Christa Pike
Video reading by Tim Foley: They botched another execution in Tennessee. They stuck the prisoner full of seven different syringes, but she didn’t die. She just experienced extreme suffering, minute after excruciating minute, before eventually losing consciousness. Her name is Christa Pike. As of this
Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life
Video reading by Tim Foley: Being forcefully pro-Palestine is the most efficient way to weed all the worst people out of your life. It takes care of them all. Zionists. Islamophobes. Apathetic narcissists. Unthinking herd-minded right wing ideologues. Abuser-enabling “both sides” moral cowards. Emotionally stunted
Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend
Video reading by Tim Foley: It pisses me off whenever I see someone claiming that “AI music” is about to make normal music obsolete. There is no such thing as “AI music” or “AI art”. AI cannot make music. It cannot create the experience of
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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Don’t be Hastie, the joke’s on you
When the knives were out for Sussan Ley, Andrew Hastie went into Parliament and flourished his copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War. The message was clear: I’m going to win, but I’ll fight when I have the best chance of winning.If Sun Tzu were to produce a modern edition
From awareness to action: building genuinely inclusive school communities
It is easy to think of inclusion as ramps, accessible bathrooms, classroom adjustments or additional support. These things matter enormously. However, inclusion is also about belonging, whether a student is welcomed as an equal and can participate fully in school life, and is seen as a whole person rather than
Haphazard luck: operational oddities, terrorist proxies and RAF Fairford
Five men, initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, then arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act. Residents of 85 households in the Cotswolds village of Whelford evacuated to Cirencester leisure centre. A 400-metre area with three white vans cordoned off. The same men,
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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
The AI Medicare wake-up call
The OpenAI Medicare breach raises a question Australia can no longer defer: who controls artificial intelligence when the promises from corporate interests fail? An AI agent’s unauthorised access to the Medicare statistics portal, followed by a delayed notification to the Australian government, exposes that gap between technological capabilities and accountability.
The OpenAI Medicare breach exposes the dangerous gap in AI regulation
An OpenAI agent – not an actual person, but a piece of code – gained unauthorised access to the Services Australia portal in June, which includes the Medicare statistics service. OpenAI engineers discovered this breach in August when they performed routine audits of internal logs, but didn’t notify the Australian