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A Failure to Thrive Nationwide: Australia’s Last Fish and Chip Shop
The fish and chip shop had a Lest We Forget flag pinned above the door. That’s why we stopped. When I went in, the store was small. Outside it was a light marine blue, and inside it was painted and repainted white. It had no picture menus hanging above the counter....
Australia’s Most Radical Censorship Bill Ever Proposed in the West: Labor’s Assault on Free Speech
High profile free speech advocate Michael Shellenberger has returned to Australia after a two year absence. Asking why in the world anyone would want a government to be able to silence practically any citizen online, his message has been blunt. “Two years ago, the...
The Promise of Universal Abundance Meets the Reality of Deaths of Despair
In the glossy narratives of artificial intelligence, Australia – and the wider West – stands on the threshold of Universal Abundance. Machines will free us from toil, algorithms will optimise every need, and the old constraints of scarcity will dissolve into a...
Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us
Video reading by Tim Foley: Techno-utopianism is the naive belief that technological innovation is going to create a paradise on earth for all of humanity. In the age of AI this notion has been enjoying a bit of a resurgence. Techno-utopianism is an infantile worldview
They’re Setting Up AI Surveillance To “De-Radicalize” Classrooms In Gaza
Video reading by Tim Foley: A US-based nonprofit is planning to use AI surveillance to check for “hateful” speech about Israel inside classrooms in the genocide-ravaged Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports: “A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools
Pentagon To Live Stream Firing Squad Execution — A Poem
Video reading by Tim Foley: The Pentagon plans to live-streamthe firing squad executionof the Fort Hood shooter,and my head is so very heavy,and everything is covered in the ashesof a burning planet. I found the corpse of a water spiritdown by the creek where my
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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Introducing the new Queensland premier – me!
In 1976 I had the growing desire to start my own Company, to walk into a room where everyone paid attention to me, to be a millionaire by the time I was 30 and retired on my superyacht by my 40th. A grand plan, but sitting in the erratic weather
The Third Man and the ruins of modernity
Carol Reed’s The Third Man, recently screened at the Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, is routinely described as one of the greatest films noirs ever made. It is certainly that. But to call it a film noir tells us remarkably little about what makes the film inexhaustible more than
The slow-motion erasure of the West Bank
There are crimes that arrive with explosions, and crimes that advance quietly-through a bulldozer at dawn, a rifle at a shepherd’s chest, a child torn from bed, a family denied water until leaving becomes the only way to survive. In the West Bank, dispossession has become a daily ritual and
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Is Big Tech AI out of control and too big to reel in?
Artificial intelligence is becoming a test of who governs Australia – elected representatives or technology companies with the resources to set the pace and terms of change. The central question is far bigger than whether an AI system follows instructions; it’s whether the corporations building these systems should also decide
One Nation: The billionaire’s battler party
One Nation promised to stand up for ordinary Australians against wealthy elites but its choice of landlord raises a number of questions. Pauline Hanson’s party is preparing to move into an $8 million Brisbane office building owned by Gina Rinehart’s company, while Barnaby Joyce insists One Nation will pay commercial
The FlyDubai incident: Fear and art of political fiction
A crisis doesn’t have to be manufactured to become propaganda. The political opportunity lies in deciding what it means, who deserves the blame and which questions the public should stop asking. The competing accounts surrounding FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 raise a much larger question: what happens when a politician’s explanation becomes